Theodora Farms is kicking off its inaugural season as we write this, in the strange reality that is Covid-19 Spring 2020. And while Theodora Farms may be the fresh new farm in Godfrey, Illinois, their Farm Manager Kris Larson is celebrating his sixteenth year farming. He got his start in agriculture in college in Northern California and spent time volunteering …
Runnin’ With The Devil In Juneau – CoolBot Helps Devil’s Club Brewing Company Stockpile Brews For Cruise Season
Jake Ridle is a Juneau, Alaska native who flew the coop during his “career of schooling,” earning an Associate’s Degree in Culinary Arts, Bachelor’s Degree in International Business and a Master’s Degree in Global Supply Chain Management before recently returning home to roost — ahem, to brew! Jake and his friends had been homebrewing as a hobby for years, even …
CoolBot Helps ORIGIN Breads Rise To Next Level
Congratulations ORIGIN Breads for making the 100 Best Bakeries in America list from Food and Wine! Kirk Smock became a baker out of necessity while living in Guyana in 2005 with his wife. In fact, his baking was inspired at her suggestion as a solution to the extreme lack of decent bread to be found anywhere. Since Kirk was working …
Sugar Hill Produce Uses 3 CoolBots To Grow Year Round Product
Sugar Hill Produce is a very special customer. They’re the proud owners of not one or two but three CoolBot coolers! Rob VanVeld took some time out of his busy farming schedule to chat with us about why CoolBot works so well for Sugar Hill Produce. Read on to find out how this farm came to life and why they’re …
Corey’s Pickles: Chillin’ Thanks to CoolBot
Corey Bellarosa began making pickles as a kiddo with his dad. Making pickles wasn’t a “huge family thing,” according to Corey. It wasn’t like his family had been making pickles for generations. However, all of his family members were huge pickle “fanatics” and they were sick of “buying crap in the store,” tells Corey, spoken like a true New Yorker. …
Holy Cow! Prairie Pure Cheese Uses CoolBot To Store Tasty Products
Brian Gerloff, along with his wife Carole, is one of the managing partners of a little company called Prairie Pure Cheese, based about fifty miles outside Chicago in Belvidere, Illinois. Brian is a dairy cattle veterinarian with a PhD in Dairy Nutrition. He plays a role in advising what to feed cattle to keep them healthy, provide great tasting and large …
Lagers Need Love Too – Caveman Brews Year Round With CoolBot
Jeff Bonner started out homebrewing in 1989 in Arizona. He’d just gotten married, and his new wife, Alison — who’s a total book nerd — had recently joined a bookclub. It was in this very book club that Alison stumbled upon a “How To Brew” book that came with a fermentor and homebrew kit, which she brought home for Jeff. …
Why is Josh Hazen so Crabby?
Josh started working at the docks in Annapolis, Maryland when he was just fourteen years old. “It’s where lots of local watermen and commercial fisherman come to unload their crabs, clams and fish by the boat,” he tells us. “It’s become a big tourist attraction.” During his time working as a teenager, Josh met a lot of crabbers. So when …
CoolBot Keeps Natalie Gill’s Flowers Fresh In San Diego Heat
About five years ago, Natalie Gill found herself sitting at her corporate job in Human Resources. She recalls the moment vividly: “I was like, I can not take one more day of doing this,” she tells us. “I need to figure out something else for my life.” So she wrote herself a list. I want to: Work with my hands …
Inside Look at a Santa Barbara Funeral Home
Disclaimer: This blog post is about the funeral industry business. It includes topics like death and cremation. If this type of subject matter makes you uncomfortable, we suggest you don’t continue reading. When we inquired how Dan Flynn originally got into the death business, he laughed. “I lost a bet!” he tells us. Dan knows a whole lot about death. …
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