Meet Our Neighbors

The story of Green Mustache began as a story shared by millions of moms—one about a child and her very particular eating habits (including her strong aversion to greens). But what we found is that this story stretches far beyond the narrative of the picky eater, and simply became the story of every person trying to find convenient and tasty ways to be healthy.At Green Mustache, we’re channeling our passion for delicious and healthy foods into creating super-snacks that are super-tasty, approachable and fun for all.  Nutrient-dense, leafy greens are the base of every awesome thing we make. Inspired by a classic childhood snack, Mustache Munchies, are baked "cheese" crackers but updated to appeal to a broader demographic as they are also organic, gluten-free, dairy-free and made with clean, healthy ingredients.  In keeping with our belief that healthy foods can be delicious and fun, these crunchy snack crackers are also in a whimsical handlebar mustache shape—it’ll be hard not to play with your food!But we’re not done yet—we’ll keep creating new products to help everyone find a fairy tale ending to their healthy living story.  We’ve got you covered. Greens for all, big and small! (TM)

After spending over a decade in NYC real estate marketing, Legally Addictive founder Laura Shafferman was suddenly laid off and bound by a non-compete clause that prohibited her from working with other firms. (Yes, you can get laid off and also held to such things!) Laura had lost her usual means to earn a living for a full year and was determined to take control over her future and not wait for that non-compete clause to expire. Fatefully, after making a batch of her favorite childhood cookies for a party, a friend suggested she come sell her amazing “cracker cookies” at a holiday market. After selling out in only a few hours, she knew they were a hit and a new business was born! She spent the next year learning the food business at night and during the day, worked as an in-house caterer. Eleven months later, a few stores in New York City agreed to carry Legally Addictive, including the flagship location of Dylan’s Candy Bar. At the time, Laura was making the cookies in the off-hours of a bakery in Brooklyn, often until well past midnight, and then delivering them around town on the subway and on foot. 

Stephanie Williams, has always believed in providing “from-scratch”, all natural meals for her family to promote a healthier lifestyle. Over time, she developed her own granola recipe to provide an alternative to some of the unhealthy snacks found on grocery store shelves and it instantly became a hit.

At Oh-Mazing, we truly believe that every person has a purpose. We want to help you explore new ways of living every moment of your beautiful lives and not go hungry—hike a mountain, take your dream trip, start a blog, play in the park with your children, or simply add a little more flavor to your commute.

Yes, we sell granola (it's quite tasty), but more importantly, we want to inspire you to live your life with purpose, passion, and to follow your dreams. Our products are here to bring the adventure back to snacking, and better yet, celebrate YOU when those dreams are achieved. Take us on your journey, and let’s be great together.

The Warshafsky in Café Warshafsky

Café Warshafsky is a woman owned business and a wonderful team of bakers. Established in New York, NY in 2014 and recently relocated to Richmond, VA in 2020! Cafe Warshafsky is very much of a mom and pop operation--small and independent grinding it out in the vibrant food community of RVA. We’re excited to share Café Warshafsky with you and hope you keep spreading the buttery love amongst friends and family.

Trade St. Jam Co. is a chef, woman and minority-owned and certified business that started in a tiny apartment in North Carolina on Trade Street. Our passion for all things food grew into something more: a company built on the foundation of culinary innovation. We strive to share our 10+ years of culinary knowledge in the form of a small batch jar that can be used in cocktails, salad dressings, BBQ sauces, marinades, pan sauces & more. Cooking should be fun and reflective of the person at hand, but what it shouldn't be, is complicated.

It all started with 3 sisters, 2 amazing parents, and 1 shared love for Sundays. Growing up, Sundays were a family day for us to kick back, relax and indulge. Lucky for us, our mom, Karen, was a seriously good baker (and still is to this day!) Rainbow sprinkle chocolate covered pretzels were her thing, along with her famous brownies! She was the queen of making drool-worthy treats and putting together the ultimate gift packages for any occasion, big or small!

In 2010, we had that *aha* moment when we decided it was time to share our most-favorite sweet + salty treats with the world. We set out to give our Mom’s famous rainbow sprinkle pretzels a refresh and create a line of gourmet pretzels in never-been-done-before-flavors. We were reinventing and modernizing chocolate covered pretzels as the world knew them!

Fast forward to 2012 and Fatty Sundays was officially born!

My sweet grandmother Rut and her love of baking inspired me to start Unna Bakery. I have fond memories of baking cookies with Rut and riding on the back of her bike to share them with friends who lived by the lake in Östersund, in northwestern Sweden where I grew up. Today I use these same recipes to bake with my two daughters, Emmy and Vera. Baking makes me feel at home, wherever I am.

Unna has seven gourmet cookie flavors, which is significant for us Swedes. In the mid-18th century, women gathered at kaffereps, to enjoy cookies, coffee and company. The homemade cookies were the centerpiece of a beautifully set table, with crocheted tablecloth, fresh flowers, and nice porcelain. For a hostess to serve less than seven cookies was considered stingy, and anything more was viewed as boastful. Seven was just right.

Some say the kafferep helped launch the Swedish women’s rights movement of the early 1900’s. It was also the precursor to the fika, a coffee break that thrives in Swedish homes, offices and cafés. According to custom, you should have coffee or tea, and a cookie, at least once a day. For many, like those in my family, it’s twice daily - at 11am and 3pm.

As a child who grew up in a coastal town in Asia, Lisa drank a lot of herbal teas with my grandma. And those moments were some of the most nourishing and healing times of her life. Holistic wellness for her as a child was much like brunch… it was simply a way of a joyful life.

Fast forward 20 years later she was living in NYC burnt out, stressed and anxious. She wanted to go back to a time where wellness was simple, beautiful and authentic. She took a trip to Shangri-la and came across these one-of-a-kind Roses the locals enjoy - she had never experienced anything so beautiful and transformative. She quickly realized unless you’re from these small remote villages on the high mountains next to Tibet you would never have access to it. So she set out on a mission to bring these high-quality food-grade flowers to the world so you can easily reap their amazing health benefits.

After over a year of research, tens of thousands of miles traveled, and 100+ flowering herbs tasted The Qi was born. They work with small family-owned farms that only offer single-origin whole flower herbs as these flowers consistently yield the richest flavonoids, nutrients and aroma.

Watermelon Road was born out of love for wholesome food, fresh flavors, and providing family and friends with better snack options, that are as nutritious as they are delicious.

Starting a family of her own, clean eating has become a greater focus for Cortney. Whole, recognizable ingredients have become a must. She wants to ensure that the snacks she's giving her family and friends are wholesome and nutritious, but also fun to eat…year round. Oh, and her stuff is pretty too. Each small batch is prepared by hand, from her family to yours.

Founder and a third generation Kenyan coffee farmer Margaret Kemunto Nyamumbo saw how Kenyan women provided over 90% of labor in the African coffee industry. Sadly, these women farmers are largely uncompensated for their work and own just 1% of farmland in their country. She looks to consciously change this for the women with Kahawa 1893.

Feel good with a flavorful cup of coffee in the morning and feel better knowing that Kahawa coffee beans positively impact the women farmers picking them.

Abigail started the Yes Bar out of love for her family. Her son was born with so many food sensitivities, she was always having to say “no” to the foods he wanted to try. In frustration and out of love, she went to her kitchen and took out all the ingredients that I could say “yes” to, and made a snack that he could eat.

He loved them because they looked and tasted like a cookie. She loved them because of their nutritious, premium quality organic ingredients. From that day on the Yes Bar was born.

Yes Bars are fully plant-based, paleo, & vegan and free of GMO’s, gluten, grains, dairy, corn, soy, eggs, & peanuts. They’re perfect for the whole family to enjoy.

After graduating from college Cassandra Thurswell moved from Minnesota to Los Angeles with dreams of owning a jewelry company. Like many entrepreneurs she failed and she failed again only to realize she had much more to learn. Cassandra went back to school as a full-time grad student at FIDM. With a one-track mind she spent over 60 hours a week working odd jobs and had a strict diet of frozen burritos in order to save as much money as possible before conquering her dream!

Cassandra founded KITSCH at the age of 25 when she took a leap of faith and left her other jobs to focus solely on making KITSCH a reality. She was ready to take the fashion world by storm, armed with 2 maxed out credit cards, endless Tupperware containers of jewelry and thousands of hair ties cut and tied herself. Cassandra’s dream was to create a company filled with inspiration and positivity in its products as well as within the company culture. She far exceeded that goal and continues creating inspirational products and messages in the most beautiful way possible.

From a single girl in a tiny apartment to a woman-owned, self-financed, world-wide company, Cassandra is just getting started!

Britta founded Aquis because she had a problem and a spark of curiosity. Growing up on a ranch meant she was used to using my hands and doing things on her own.

She wanted to spend less time doing my hair and more time doing the things she loved. The haircare routine was holding her back. She was inspired by moisture-wicking sportswear, and she had a problem to solve.

Thanks to that curiosity she pioneered the Aquis hair towel. Her belief is, you have better things to do than your hair.

Through all of this, she learned about hair and how it works, and about herself. She learned she could push herself to go the extra mile and then another. She learned she could really do anything if she put her mind to it. She learned we all have things holding us back, but we all are capable of whatever it is we want to do if we never stop learning.

She believes there is a better way to care for your hair. Combining science and technology, they are innovating products that protect the natural integrity of your hair and strengthen it from the inside out, core to cuticle.

For 12 years, Anne owned and operated a popular cooking school in Los Angeles. In what was perhaps our most popular class, her students gathered several times a year to make candy. In 2011, after falling in love with a Portlander, she sold her business and moved to the Pacific Northwest.

It’s serendipity that brought a food-focused entrepreneur, still consumed by candy making, to a city that embraces culinary artisans. With only a basic understanding of tempering chocolate and cooking with sugar, she had an idea to make a chocolate bark with toffee running through it. In 2015, she decided that as an environmentalist, she wanted to try to make something just as special without using animal products. She started playing around with peanut butter and an organic cane sugar syrup and dreamed Tom Bumble into existence.

They have now added new flavors and textures to their confection line, and all of their candies are vegan, gluten free and made with as many organic ingredients as possible.

Spaghetti & Meatballs are all "home-cooked" greeting cards and watercolor art made with love and a pinch of sass. The artist, Marie Castiglione, started this company two years ago and named it after her love of Italian food. Her hope is that you get the same kind of love and comfort in her cards that she gets from eating pasta. She writes them with her sister and close circle of girlfriends who believe using humor is the best medicine in all of life's celebrations and tribulations.

Spaghetti & Meatballs speaks to the lovers, haters, and feelers in all of us. They are cards for (and against) the millennial generation. She believes in celebrating the big and small moments of life by writing it, not texting it. From birthdays to breakup cards, and everything in between.

Brooke specifically remembers the first time she tried Lark Fine Foods "cookies for grown-ups" on her family. The year was 2010, and she had struck a home run with these sophisticated shortbreads.

Suddenly, Brooke started seeing that little Lark logo everywhere. Small specialty foods stores carried their cookies, but strangely, it was often at her children's elementary school functions where she encountered them most. That's when she came in contact with Mary Ann McCormick and Nicole Nordensved, the mother-daughter duo behind the Essex, Massachusetts, company.

Fast-forward five years to 2015. Brooke was still a loyal customer, and Mary Ann and Nicole were looking to sell. With a background in finance, Brooke describes the purchase as almost spur of the moment, or "on a lark," if you will. Tapping her friend Elaine Peterson, who had a marketing background and a penchant for baking and recipe development, the new venture took flight, riding on the wings of the soaring flavor that happens when savory meets sweet. Lark's sophisticated products feature subtle, balanced flavors like their Pistachio Cherry Sablé, Salted Rosemary Shortbread and the uber-elegant Burnt Sugar and Fennel Shortbread. Their cookies have a cool sense of having more than meets the eye – they can be dessert, but also so much more. And they recently launched a line of savory crackers.

Handmade, all-natural and preservative-free, these cookies definitely aren't kids stuff, and they've been getting grown-up-level accolades: they've received two prestigious sofi Gold Awards and four sofi Silver Finalist Awards from Specialty Foods. For the kids, they've started a summer internship program, teaching teenagers the backend of the business as well as baking skills. Brooke and Elaine took the risk, and it paid off in spades.

Seven years ago, Grace discovered a new found love for oatmeal. It became a core part of her daily life and a warm, good morning hug that jump started her day. At the time, she was attending USC for business school and traveling in-between school days for modeling and oatmeal got her through it all. After she graduated, she participated in her first Fashion Week. It was more like a month starting in NY then going to London, Milan then finally Paris. Dozens of castings, late night fittings and several fashion shows later, she came home and saw that she was featured by Vogue as one of the 5 Models to Know from Marc Jacobs Spring 2017. As excited as she was, all she could think about was “I WANT MY OATMEAL”.

She found that the issue with all the oatmeal on the market was that 1) it was too high in refined sugars or 2) the texture or flavor wasn't appetizing. She tried to find an option that suited her needs when she was constantly on the go but none of them fit the profile. Sometimes she felt like she was eating baby food or bland cardboard.

After coming home from the madness of Fashion Week, she finally realized what kind of business she wanted to create. She wanted to share her daily dose of warmth and happiness with the rest of the world. With that in mind, she set out to recreate her homemade oatmeal on-the-go (warm, creamy oats cooked in almond milk, a spoonful of crunchy nut butter and slightly sweetened with unrefined sugars). To that end, Mylk Labs was born.