Local Spotlight: Nest On Main In Northport

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Searching for homemade, well crafted, home decor? While strolling through Main Street in Northport, don’t hesitate to stop at The Nest On Main. Welcomed by their bright-open layout, filled with a variety of home products, you immediately feel right at home.

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Their products include custom wooden bookstacks & furniture, delicious homemade food, tableware, bath & body products, and more. However, this local shop is not your typical marketplace. Unlike other home design stores, all of the products featured are provided by local artisans and entrepreneurs.

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Due to this unique concept, The Nest On Main is perfect for creating a community or “nest” where local artisans can thrive. The owner, Donna Moschella, strives to strengthen the community by offering “Nesters” a way to showcase their talents. The “Nesters” are locals that contribute their products to the store and host pop-up events such as knitting classes, jewelry stamping, pottery workshops and more!

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These pop-ups are hosted frequently, with one of their most popular events being Loops By Keri. This class includes a lesson on how to craft the trendy, chunky-knit blanket. Every class is an opportunity to bring people together and make new friends. Whether you’re a novice or an expert, every class is tailored towards teaching a new skill!

If you’re interested in growing your community, shopping local, or browsing home decor, don’t hesitate to stop by! The Nest On Main is located on 135 Main Street in the quaint town of Northport, NY. If you or your neighbor are looking to contribute to The Nest, you can easily apply to become a seller. For keeping up with The Nest’s events and trendy merchandise give them a follow @nestonmainmarket on Instagram or give them a call (631) 651-9173. Don’t forget to learn more about The Nest On Main by watching our interview with the owner Donna here!

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Melissa Farrell

Melissa Farrell has a mission to support local business by "Going Local." As a local business owner herself, she understands the struggles entrepreneurs face when owning a business and is always trying to find ways to shine a spotlight onto them. Melissa started Going Local Tours & Experiences back in 2020 during the pandemic in hopes to bring people back into local restaurants and shops. She created food tours in Huntington, NY that would stop at 3-4 local businesses and gave the guests the chance to meet the owner and hear the story behind the business. She soon realized how powerful storytelling is when connecting people to local businesses and created options with local store owners as well to bring them onto the tour to share their story. Melissa wanted to expand out of Huntington to be able to support even more local businesses and started creating luxury picnics where she would bring local to you! She would find local businesses in the area of the picnic set up and deliver it to you offering ways to support over 3 local businesses at each picnic. This wasn't enough. She wanted to find a better way to help spread awareness of local businesses and share their stories. Enter Evangeline Knell...a woman with over 30 years of broadcasting experience who somehow convinced Melissa to host a 3 day live stream from the Huntington Fall Festival. She had never been on camera before, but working alongside Evie to create the 3 shows, gave Melissa the confidence to take on the challenge. The 3 shows produced focused on the local vendors, the food trucks and the events that occurred at the festival and had a much larger reach than Melissa could ever of done on her own. They soon realized a business partnership was needed and combined their two businesses, Identity Digital which is a production company and Going Local Tours and Experiences to form Going Local Media. Evie and Melissa even formed their own distribution outlet by creating Going Local TV, a streaming platform like Netflix or YouTube, that is all about local businesses, events and organizations on Long Island. There are over 200 videos including their podcast series "Let's Get Local" "Long Island Business Minds" and "Local Business Spotlight" that help spread awareness of our local businesses and Long Island Professionals. They are always thinking up new ways to support local, including this site, Going Local Today that is a directory of articles on how to Go Local on Long Island. We appreciate you taking the time to read this and for supporting local! Thank you!

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