Rustic Road Farm
Elburn, IL
Rustic Road Farm was founded in 2012 by Marc and Luis Bernard on 5.5 acres in Elburn, Illinois, with the intention of providing fresh, sustainably grown vegetables to select Chicago restaurants. Quickly, Marc and Luis realized the folks right nearby in Kane County were hungry for clean, ethically-grown produce, so they pivoted to a model that focused on feeding their immediate community.
Siller Pollinator Co.
Scottsville, VA
Siller Pollinator Company was founded in 2019 with the intention of helping people help pollinators. Operating primarily as a honeybee hive management service for its first few years, SPC has grown to include a retail space and a quickly growing pollinator habitat development enterprise. They have forged exciting new partnerships with utility scale solar companies across Virginia, collaborating to directly transform solar sites into pollinator habitat or to facilitate partnerships between utilities and rotational sheep grazers.
