I met Robin Shilling a couple of months ago at Warehouse Bakery & Donuts. We were both having lunch at one of the community tables.

Erin Childress Salyers, “The Butcher’s Daughter” took over her dad’s business, Farm Fresh Meats in Robertsdale, Alabama, six years ago.

Born in Mobile, Christopher Jones spent many summers at his grandparents’ home in Point Clear.

Richard Smith is a Fairhope native and fourth-generation Baldwin County longleaf pine tree farmer.

Will Mastin and Karl Brantley thought there must be a better option for buying fresh produce than what was available in big market stores. Together, they purchased property and equipment in Baldwin County and started Local Appetite Growers.

Gracie McTaggart first learned about bees and honey two years ago at a 4-H Club meeting in Fairhope. She learned how to harvest honey with her friend, Evan, and his father, Dr. Michael Pursley, a cardiologist from Fairhope who learned how to harvest honey from his father.

Tommy and Mike McKenzie are third-generation Baldwin County farmers working on property that’s been in the family for about 75 years.

Jack E. Davis, Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Gulf, introduced his new work The Bald Eagle at Page & Palette in Fairhope in early March. Jack is an environmental writer and the Rothman Family Chair in the Humanities at the University of Florida. He spends his time in Gainesville, Florida, and New Hampshire.