Transformation

Nothing has been transparent since planting the seed of our business. No matter how well our strategic plans to predict growth were designed, the future cannot be foreseen. So, business owners must spread their roots in all directions to adapt and grow. Like a seedling struggling to survive in an unpredicted frost, Chef Coles and I had mutually agreed as part of our business plan that we were both willing to “die trying” to see our business grow to its optimal potential.

The birth of Azul Acres LLC started as an ideal to “eliminate the middleman and the disconnect” between a local farmer and a chef in the culinary industry. With Chef’s culinary and farming background, and my hospitality, event planning, and public relations experience, we felt that having a direct farm-to-table catering business would be a perfect fit. We want our clients to celebrate, and be fed healthy, distinctive, and beyond-satisfying food.

As many other businesses endured starting spring of 2020, the blow of the pandemic caused us to shift in directions we had not predicted. May 2020, our first official month advertising as a farm-to-table catering business, was completely booked for Chef Coles – full of weddings, rehearsal dinners, and private events. However, the heartache hit us as the catered events calendar was entirely canceled in one day with the announcement of pandemic closures.

As a result, we rechanneled our focus away from catering to CSA Buckets and meat shares and cooking as vendors at outdoor, small festivals that were permitted with abiding rules of social distancing. With the world reopening to public and group events, Azul Acres has discontinued its CSA (we will still offer wholesale produce, eggs, and shares to businesses and the public) we now refocus on our original mission – to cater events using local farm-fresh ingredients.

Our farm and catering company is not just another “farm-to-table.” With each event, Chef Coles and I have single-handedly sown the seeds to your sauteed vegetables, raised the pork, and cared for the hens that give us their rich eggs. If we don’t carry a product requested for an event, we look to our friends from our local farm community to source it.
Chef Coles and I are here, at your service, ready to prepare meals that simply make events memorable and something to boast about to others. We have embraced any challenges that have come our way, transformed by extending different branches, and are now on the path back to our true, and original mission.

One may have heard Chef Coles say this before, but with every dish he makes at each event, he seeks to defy culinary boundaries and is changing the world one dish at a time.