> Tracing its roots to 1929 when Katherine Lehnert opened a pie and cider stand in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, the family business relocated to Colorado in the 1950s with Elias's grandparents. After operating as Colorado Cherry Co. across northern Colorado—including locations in Loveland, Lyons, and the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park—fourth-generation owner Elias Lehnert (29) and his wife Rachel opened a Denver location on Tennyson Street in November 2020, rebranding as Legacy Pie Co. Elias reflects on the transformation: 'It's exciting for us. The business has such a good foundation. We're excited to continue to run it' and 'to improve it and build upon it and take it to the next level.' The Denver venture represents a strategic shift from tourism-focused shops to urban neighborhood markets, growing from two employees to 11 full-time workers (20 during peak seasons) and selling approximately 80,000 pies by mid-November 2022.

Edward Jones maintains a presence in Lafayette through multiple financial advisors including Kaytie Clark, Jennifer W. Music, Ryan F. Maskewitz, Stephen Thomson, Anthony E. Urrutia, and Dana L. Wozniak, representing the local offices of a national investment firm founded in 1922 in St. Louis that pioneered the one-financial-advisor-per-office model to provide personalized investment guidance and financial planning services to individual investors and small business owners in communities across America. Operating as a partnership structure where financial advisors serve as local business owners building long-term relationships with clients while accessing the research, investment products, and institutional support of a major financial services firm, Edward Jones demonstrates how national firms can deliver localized financial services that support community economic development including agricultural businesses, food enterprises, and small-scale producers. Through personalized financial advising that helps Lafayette residents and business owners with retirement planning, investment management, education savings, and business succession planning, Edward Jones exemplifies how financial advisory services strengthen regional economies by providing the wealth management infrastructure that enables farmers, food producers, artisan bakers, specialty food creators, and agricultural entrepreneurs to plan for business transitions, invest profits for growth, and build the financial stability necessary for multi-generational operations. Featured on Daily Grains' platform showcasing business support services, Edward Jones represents the essential financial advisory sector that enables local food economies to thrive by helping agricultural businesses access investment advice, retirement planning for farm families, college savings for next-generation farmers, and the comprehensive financial planning services necessary to build sustainable multi-generational food businesses that form the foundation of resilient regional grain economies.

State Farm serves Lafayette through multiple insurance agents including Jim Plane (agent since 2012), Shawn Hughes (who helped dozens of families navigate claims following the devastating Marshall Fire in 2021), Paul Hultgren, and Josh Chase (office at 1200 W South Boulder Road Suite 202), representing the local presence of the nation's largest auto insurance provider founded in 1922 in Bloomington, Illinois by George J. Mecherle to provide affordable auto insurance to farmers and later expanding to become a comprehensive insurance and financial services company serving over 86 million policies nationwide. Through local insurance agents operating as independent business owners who build relationships with Lafayette families and businesses while providing access to State Farm's insurance products including auto, home, life, business, and renters insurance, State Farm demonstrates how national insurance companies can deliver personalized local service that supports community resilience by ensuring that residents and businesses can protect their assets, recover from disasters, and maintain the financial stability necessary for economic participation. Featured on Daily Grains' platform showcasing business support infrastructure, State Farm exemplifies how insurance services strengthen regional food economies by providing the risk management infrastructure that enables farmers to insure crops and equipment, food producers to protect commercial operations, farmers market vendors to obtain business liability coverage, restaurant owners to insure facilities and inventory, and agricultural entrepreneurs to access the comprehensive insurance protection necessary to operate food businesses that serve local markets and rebuild regional grain chain infrastructure while managing the inherent risks of agricultural production, food processing, and small business ownership.

> Since 1913, the Stam family has been handcrafting exceptional white, milk and dark chocolate bonbons following old-world Dutch traditions. The company was founded when Jacobus Stam, after receiving numerous requests from devoted customers urging him to specialize exclusively in chocolate, turned his passion to fine chocolate and created Chocolaterie Stam. Today, their Lafayette location at 103 N Public Rd offers exquisite bonbons, their own rich coffee blend, and more than 50 flavors of homemade Italian gelato and sorbetto, all with a philosophy of 'treating every patron and employee as an extension of our family.'

> Operating since 1907 when Frank and Maggie Burns first planted peaches in Grand Junction, Ela Family Farms has evolved into Colorado's first certified organic fourth-generation orchard under the stewardship of Steve Ela. Growing over 55 varieties of organic tree fruits—including cherries, peaches, pears, apples, plums, grapes, and multiple heirloom tomato varieties—the farm emphasizes flavor above all: 'Our pride and delight is letting the fruit ripen in the field,' ensuring notably juicy and complex offerings. The operation demonstrates environmental leadership by supplying approximately 80% of electricity through on-farm solar panels, using gravity-powered drip irrigation, and maintaining carbon-neutral operations while conserving land in perpetuity as agricultural open space. They practice zero-waste farming, selling market-grade and canning-grade fruit while using damaged fruit for commercial kitchen operations and feeding scraps to local pig farmers.