Community

As the business plan for Bozeman Massage Therapy LLC unfolds, community is a definite element in the mission.

Why is community important? This past month, while spending an afternoon volunteering at Field Day Farms as part of my CSA share exchange, I struck up an interesting conversation with a fellow volunteer, Amy, working with me in the field. We met near the cabbage, exchanging the usual introductions. Like most people I meet in Bozeman, we easily found connections between our friends and lives.

In between rows of heirloom squash carefully cultivated by our mutual friend, farm owner Mariann Van Den Elzen, we asked more about each other. Bent over the seedlings with an aching lower back, Amy was curious about my massage work; in need of a new logo and design for my marketing materials, I asked Amy more about her work.

Conversation moved with us to the celery field, and by the time we transplanted the last stalk we shared contact information and made a plan for future discussion. Amy is now busy working on my new logo and she is excited to receive some great bodywork from me.

Building community takes effort and has many benefits; supporting farmer friends who in turn feed us local, healthy, organically grown food, thereby creating a healthier environment for everyone in our community and world through ecologically sound farming practices...meeting others at events of mutual interest and sharing ourselves with each other, cultivating connections...supporting the work of others in our community and offering our services to those who need them...

Because community is important in so many ways - for our health, environment, economic advancement and even planetary well-being, not to mention limitless opportunity we find through each other - Bozeman Massage Therapy LLC is a business that prioritizes contribution to community.