In this Partner Profile, CEO Lorenza Pasetti talks with Tracey Ryder, Edible Communities’ Founder and CEO, to reflect on the 40 years she’s spent working in her family’s business, the 120-year-old specialty Italian meat company, Volpi Foods. Founded in 1902 by Lorenza Pasetti’s great uncle, Giovanni Volpi, just four years after arriving in St. Louis,…
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Sustaining a Legacy: A Profile of Lorenza Pasetti, CEO of Volpi Foods
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A pile of #2’s says summertime, unrushed afternoons, and a morning spent with dipnet in hand. There’s just something uninspired—something ostentatious—about ordering jumbos. Demanding the biggest crabs the Bay has to offer, hulking battle-scarred survivors who have bypassed a billion crab pots only to end up savaged by your Carvel Hall knife. Go to any…
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Freedom Farms & Greenhouse
“Literally everyone on the planet eats. If you want to get to know your neighbor, grow some food with them.” That is the distilled version of Ann Fleener’s philosophy as the Director of Freedom Farms & Greenhouse, which is a branch of the local non-profit Restore OKC. “Restore OKC started about three years ago out…