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My Mom’s granola finds success with local, Cal Poly ingredients

On Tuesdays, Farb’s Bakery is alive with music, clattering trays and granola as it undergoes various baking and production processes. Here, Heather Segal works the magic behind her San Luis Obispo-based gourmet food company, My Mom’s, with the help of her three employees, or “villagers,” as she calls them. “[Working for Segal] is something different. […]

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Say “I dough”: Former ASI president sells cookies for wedding fund

Owen Schwaegerle, agricultural business graduate and former ASI president, pulled a freshly baked batch of cookies from his oven, ready for packaging. In the spring of 2016, Schwaegerle and his fiancĂ©e, communication studies senior Camille Lethcoe, created a startup called San Luis Obispo Chocolate Chip Cookie Delivery, or SLO3CD. “My fiancĂ©e … was craving late […]

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