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Eating farm-fresh food is not just a totem one should aspire to for Greenwich native Mike Geller of the hugely popular farm-to-home grocery service, Mike’s Organic, but rather a way of life. And one he picked up while living in the Kalahari Desert in Botswana where he saw how farm-fresh food could thrive in the aisles of a grocery store and felt firsthand how much a healthy diet translated to a healthy mind. Returning to his hometown with a mission after his time in Africa, Mike became a student of how food was grown and immersed himself in local, sustainable farming and agriculture, including volunteering at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture. Already a passionate cook, gardener, fisherman and hunter, the evolution of Mike’s Organic was indeed organic. PAGE 14 | GOODSPEED MAGAZINE
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