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Patrick Mateer Put the Farmers Market in the Freezer
A 6:30 a.m. farmers-market shift showed him the absurdity hiding in plain sight: beloved local fruit, a brutally short selling season, and good harvests with nowhere to go. His answer was a regional cold chain built to make summer last all year.
Seal the Seasons Put the Farmers Market in the Freezer - Then Had to Reinvent Its Own Factory
The North Carolina startup began with an $80,000 prize purse and its own freezing line. Its bigger idea arrived when it stopped trying to own the factory and turned spare capacity on family farms into a regional frozen-food network.
The Supermarket Turnaround Hiding in Argentina’s Shopping Cart
GDN AR inherited Walmart’s Argentine footprint, replaced the signs and began rewiring the machine behind them. Its bet is that a supermarket can become more useful - and more local - by shrinking the trip from warehouse to shelf.
Little Sesame
Little Sesame is a Washington, D.C.-born food company that makes freshly spun, organic hummus from regeneratively farmed American chickpeas. What began in a 500-square-foot basement beneath a deli has grown into a two-part business: a fast-casual hummus restaurant and a national consumer-packaged-goods brand sold in more than 1,000 retail doors, including Whole Foods, Sprouts and Wegmans. The company pairs chef-driven flavor with a direct, traceable supply chain that supports regenerative organic farmers and treats good agriculture as a climate tool.