Become A Member Business

We invite local businesses to join us in helping make Milwaukee a better place! We need your support as we grow in order to help make a bigger impact on our communities and increase awareness of the benefits of buying local.

Why Local First?

Buying from a local business has many positive impacts for our city and its communities. The more support we give to community based businesses the more we get back.

In order to make Milwaukee a more sustainable community, our goal is to build market share for locally-owned, independent businesses by increasing awareness about the personal and community benefits of choosing local.

Remember, for every $1 you spend at a locally owned business, more than 68¢, versus 43¢ spent at a national chain, remains in Milwaukee.

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Featured Member

Bolzano Artisan Meats
http://www.bolzanomeats.com

The true start of Bolzano Artisan Meats was the childhoods of the husband-and-wife team of Scott Buer and Christin Johnstone-Buer. Growing up in foodie families who gardened, made sauerkraut, yogurt and beer gave them a unique perspective that they only really realized when they discovered each other and saw that none of their friends grew up in this kind of Old World food culture.

Being in Wisconsin, they were fans of the craft beers and homestead cheeses around them, and realized that nobody was doing the same great things with local pork. So in 2009, they founded Bolzano Artisan Meats,… learn more about our member businesses here »