by RanchFoodsDirect | May 4, 2018 | Newsletter, Partners, Provider Partners
Albert Hecker and his wife Molly moved to Colorado Springs last summer from Upstate New York and brought their pasta sauce business with them. After running a restaurant for many years, the Heckers were ready to pursue a more family-friendly lifestyle. Their Fra...
by RanchFoodsDirect | Apr 5, 2018 | Newsletter, Partners, Provider Partners
WHAT BROUGHT YOU TO COLORADO SPRINGS? For the past year and a half, I’ve been working at Emerge Aquaponics (in Black Forest) doing system design and farming. I grew up in Ohio and have a mechanical engineering background. I’ve lived all over the world...
by RanchFoodsDirect | Mar 15, 2018 | Newsletter, Partners, Provider Partners
In 2015, Victoria Johnson started a business to honor a dear friend who had recently passed away by making her favorite dessert: Italian-style rum cake. Aware of the exploding interest in gluten-free foods, she was determined to create an option that would fit the...
by RanchFoodsDirect | Feb 5, 2018 | beef, Newsletter, Partners, Provider Partners, Recipes
Putting a finishing sear on “sou vide” steaks requires oil with a high smoke point. Looking at various options to achieve this, Melissa (Ranch Foods Direct retail manager and procurement specialist) discovered an ingenious product invented and marketed in...
by RanchFoodsDirect | Jan 6, 2018 | Newsletter, Partners, Provider Partners
How is it possible for Ranch Foods Direct to sell locally grown beautiful butterhead bibb lettuce (right) during the coldest days of winter? Emerge Aquaponics, located near Black Forest, grows the lettuce using one of the most advanced sustainable production methods...
by RanchFoodsDirect | Jan 6, 2018 | Events, Newsletter, Partners, Provider Partners
Artisan baker Shawn Saunders, above, supplies Ranch Foods Direct with creations like artisan sourdough and chile cheese bread. Local baker and Ranch Foods Direct bread supplier, Shawn Saunders, shown above, returns to the faculty of this month’s annual...