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How 3 Local Culinary Companies Are Giving Back
Satisfy your appetite—and support charitable causes—by purchasing greens, pasta, and sweets from these makers.Denise Mickelsen and Patricia Kaowthumrong •
March 1, 2021
Mountain Man Micro Farms owner Andrew McArdle donates a portion of sales from every crate of live microgreens he delivers across the Front Range to Texas-based Targeted Aquaponics Growth, a nonprofit that builds sustainable food growing systems for orphanages and children’s homes in low-income communities around the world. McArdle’s efforts—and flavor-packed vegetable seedlings—are two more reasons to eat your greens.
Chef Jesse Albertini opened her virtual pasta shop, Sfoglina, in July 2020 to bring hand-milled and slow-dried whole-grain noodles and monthly pasta subscriptions to hungry Coloradans—literally, as she self-delivers. Try Sfoglina’s twisted-tube casarecce and Addie’s Animals, named for her daughter, which put the letters in alphabet soup to shame. Even better, Albertini uses grains grown on the Eastern Plains and in Utah and donates five percent of her profits to local charities.