Welcome to part 2 of our conversation with Pete Kirkwood.

Pete Kirkwood, like all good entrepreneurs, has been a lot of things. He's worked in intellectual property law, tourism, land conservation, the tech sector, the nonprofit world. He even started a disaster relief organization. But these days Pete's known as the owner of the Workshop Brewing Company. The Workshop's mini-manifesto starts with the following words:

“We are in business to preserve Northern Michigan’s spectacular natural environment, to reinforce Traverse City’s warm and vital community, and to honor traditional craft. We do not consider our business to be a success unless we are demonstrably and sustainably doing all three.”

In this episode, we chat about Pete’s business philosophy, trial, tribulations, and how his many experiences have helped make him the loud proud rural entrepreneur he is today. We also talk about how rural communities are actually uniquely poised to tackle so many of the challenges our world is facing.

If you got a kick out of listening to Pete on EntrepreRURAL, then please check out his own podcasts:

The Happitalist PodcastThe Improverbial Pete Kirkwood & Lisa ThauvetteFulfillament- Pete Kirkwood, The Workshop Brewing Company

We'd like to thank our sponsor for this episode, Cherryland Electric Cooperative.

And as always, we at Commonplace would like to thank our partners at The Boardman Review and Cold Shower Media.