Case Studies

In the heart of Washington, D.C., and now across the Southeast, Timber Pizza has carved out more than just a reputation for good pies—it’s built a movement. What started as two friends, a wood-fired oven, and a beat-up 1967 Chevy truck is now a full-fledged brand with a Michelin mention, national recognition, and a rapidly […]

Before sunrise during the busiest stretch of the year, the loading yard at Simpson Nurseries is already humming. Trucks back up to rows of container trees one after another, and by the time most of Florida is pouring its first cup of coffee, ten to twenty of them are already rolling out for the day. […]

When Paul Zhang talks about food, he often returns to a single idea: simplicity. As president of Sungiven Foods, he has built his strategy around the notion that less truly can be more. Since opening its first store in Vancouver in 2019, Sungiven Foods has earned a devoted following across British Columbia for its fresh, […]

The desire to return home was as unexpected as it was strong. It was 2014, and Marshall Green had spent years working in the competitive kitchens of Philadelphia, building a career that had nothing to do with topsoil or flowering perennials. He had attended the New England Culinary Institute, honed his craft, and thrown himself […]

In the world of fresh produce, few companies have made as significant an impact as Potandon Produce, the nation’s largest marketer of table-stock potatoes and a leading force in fresh onions. Led by Mel Davenport, one of the company’s founders, Potandon has continually evolved to meet the changing needs of consumers while staying true to […]

In a contest between quality and quantity, the former prevails.  That’s at least the reasoning of Caleb Counts, whose experience as a cannabis user and entrepreneur long preceded the plant’s 2016 recreational legalization in California.  Now, as he keeps things above board, Counts can’t help but be affected by those who, because of taxes, regulations, […]

Odds are good you’ve never had to pass through Uniontown, Kentucky, a town of about 1,000 people on the Ohio River. However, odds are much better that you’ve eaten something from Uniontown, the home of Little Kentucky Smokehouse and its affiliated companies Union County Livestock, better known as Jim David Meats and Mid-South Sales. Owned […]

It’s easy to envision the state of Washington state as an unending forest of towering fir, spruce and hemlock trees forever moistened by storm systems riding in from the Pacific Ocean. But the HighLine Grain Growers Inc. website shows aerial views of grain silos and railroad cars lined up in a landscape that belies this […]

Those long racks and shelves of annuals are an explosion of color that gardeners long to see through the winter months—an effusion of reds, yellows, pinks, blues and more awaiting a new home in a patch of soil. While the gardeners buying their annuals in big-box stores such as Lowe’s in Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri and […]

Bowen Kou knows what it means to have nothing except unlimited potential and a burning desire to succeed. He came to the U.S. from China at age 19 and, in 2009, began his undergraduate studies in supply chain management at Michigan State University. He noticed a lot of students struggling to purchase new textbooks, which […]