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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 s