From the US to the horn of Africa, Beth George is helping bagel businesses master their own formulas using their unique locally sourced flour and adding in her proprietary blend of ingredients. She developed the formula with her son, now a chemist and engineer, carrying on the foodie-mathematician family tradition.

People are adding these ingredients to everything from banana bread to bath bombs, but there is a considerable amount of confusion around the substances. Kristen Williams and Jill Hartman, two CBD experts and business owners in mid-Missouri’s hemp and CBD industry, are educating Missourians who are curious about what CBD can do for them.

Both carnivores and herbivores alike may find their taste buds enchanted by the sandwiches, loaded tater tots, and more at the West Bottoms-based Cauldron Collective. The secret to their food with magical flavor is simple: a whole lot of vegetables.

The concept of MIXT was born in California in 2005. Co-founder Leslie Silverglide, along with her husband David and brother Drew, were fed up with the lack of options available for health-conscious people on the go. So, fueled by their frustrations, they combined their talents in environmental sustainability, cuisine, and business to create a solution.

Curiosity may be lethal to cats, but not to the curious engineer with a passion for music. Wil Reeves, 43, is the owner and operator of Columbia, Missouri’s Centro Cellar Studio. He serendipitously discovered a passion for sound engineering and production back in the early 2000s and has never looked back. Now, he’s making his own music and helping other local artists share their work with the world.

From plant milk to plant butter to plant-based meat, there’s very little that a nut, seed, fruit, or bean can’t become these days. But it’s not those products that Claire Schlemme has her sights on — she just wants the leftovers. She’s the co-founder and CEO of Renewal Mill, a food company that fights food waste by transforming the byproducts of things like plant milk into shelf-stable flour and baking mixes.

Liz serves as the full-time Managing Editor for this publication by Avant Food Media. A digital-first bakery business magazine, her stories focus on food trends in baked goods, how people are handling supply chain disruption, COVID-19, and other issues, and bakers that are breaking boundaries in the industry.

Dallas Innovates, a publication from D Magazine Partners, is a digital and print magazine focusing on all things business innovation in Dallas-Fort Worth. Liz spent the summer of 2019 writing and photographing stories for Dallas Innovates, interviewing the big names in local business, and focusing on all things new and next in DFW.

The Columbia Missourian is a daily online and print publication that has been serving the community of Columbia, Missouri since 1908. Liz was a staff photographer in 2019 and a community reporter in 2020 - right at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. Although she had to relocate to Texas in the middle of her term, she never stopped reporting.