Mark Fernquest
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From Ecuador With Love
Grand Central Cafe is more than a coffee shop. Owners Natalie and Juan Carlos Vinueza opened it during the waning days of the pandemic, and what began conceptually as a cafe, evolved into a colorful business that serves coffees and mochas as well as organic empanadas, and sells imported Ecuadorian cacao and artisanal items. A…
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Bites by the Sea
Like the oceanside hamlet it resides in, Jenner by the Sea, Café Aquatica is both a rest stop and a destination. Regardless of her customers’ travel plans, however, owner Rachel Kulinski makes it feel like home to all. A self-described transplant from the Midwest, she moved to West County 10 years ago. “I was looking…
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From The Ground Up
The Neighborhood Garden Initiative teams up with Bulb Bliss to promote veggies for all in Sonoma County and beyond. When Ammon Jordan set out to write a children’s book about sustainability and green living a few years ago, he had no idea that the project would, well, balloon into something more. But somewhere along the…