Entrepreneur
Nov 10, 2024
Meet your farmer: Amilsa Aguilar
For our final entry in our Meet Your Farmer series, we're introducing you to Amilsa, a small entrepreneur, an active member of the church and a loving mother and wife.
Oct 29, 2024
Meet Your Farmer: Doña Maritza Roque
Maritza is a woman who embodies the term fabulous.
Oct 21, 2024
Meet Your Farmer: Sucy Donis
Like everyone in Las Flores, Sucy grew up in coffee. As a child, her family didn’t own any land, but rather worked as day labor on other people’s coffee farms.
Oct 13, 2024
Meet your farmer: Ana Petronila
We first started working with Ana two years ago, albeit indirectly. We had been contacted by a cooperative, Cooperativa Coatitlán, in the Atitlán region that was looking to highlight its female contributors' work and was hoping we would purchase its coffee.
Oct 8, 2024
Meet your farmer: Doña Evelyn Samayoa
Continuing our Meet your farmer series for Hispanic Heritage Month, we'd like to introduce you to a grower and a mother who is keeping the community strong with her family farm.
May 23, 2024
Why every café needs a ready-to-drink option on the menu
Flavorful, ready-to-drink beverages are growing in popularity among young coffee drinkers, and brands are fighting for relevance in this emerging consumer market.
Feb 20, 2024
Recap: Meijer Roadmap to Retail 2024
We had an exciting kickoff to the week in Milwaukee at Meijer's Roadmap to Retail event on Monday and walked away feeling pumped for the future of diversity and inclusion in retail.
Nov 15, 2023
Influential Women Q/A: Kavy Lenon
We at Soldadera Coffee make it our mission to uplift women entrepreneurs, and as a minority- and woman-owned coffee company, we are proud to partner with another local beverage brand, ZINI Vodka, for the Grand Rapids International Wine Beer and Food Festival this weekend at DeVos Place.
Nov 26, 2020
A Startup Thanksgiving, Remembering those who support entrepreneurs.
If an entrepreneur was to ask me what Start Garden is and what they do, I would tell them it is our community's best...
