Entrepreneur
Nov 13, 2025
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.
Nov 13, 2025
Meet Your Farmer: Doña Maritza Roque
Maritza is a woman who embodies the term fabulous.
Nov 13, 2025
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.
Nov 13, 2025
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.
Nov 13, 2025
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.
Nov 13, 2025
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 13, 2025
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...
