Nudi Pasta.The start-up of a fresh pasta business.

Any person that knows me well, knows I'm always thinking of new business ideas. I could probably say I've been doing businesses (or at least researching about them) all my life. It started in kinder garden with silk worms, $1 each, 2nd grade handmade hair pins, 3rd grade a small bank where my parents would "deposit" pennies, a monthly newspaper that covered 4th grader things like school crushes, then I got more fancy with holiday presents like brownies and cookies all nicely packed and everything.

Sharing some home-made brownies in Kinder garden.

My mom was always very supportive, and I thank her for taking me to buy ingredients, bulk colorful necklace beads, and waking up with me at 5 am to pack cookies in nice little bags to sell that morning in school.

My dad, even though he never woke up at 5, he always listened to my ideas and inspired me in a way that felt like I could do anything I wanted.

Now I'm grown up and it's time to start new adventures. But this time, with a bigger market than 5th graders. So through this blog I'll share with you my story, of the start-up of a small artisan pasta business, everything from ups and downs, and maybe you can one day become part of my adventure too.

Karla



8.10.08

Egg Hunting Part 1

I know it's not Easter. But I'm in a real egg-hunt! For Nudi Pasta I want to find the freshest eggs. Organic local eggs if possible, or at least free-range. I want to be able to look at where they are raised and have a relationship with the owner... and the chickens. :)

So that is how the egg hunt started. First I went on the internet and found about a lady named Tati, that offers workshops on how to grow vegetable gardens like our grandparents did. After finding out she's the sister of one of my dad's best friends, I quickly decided to embark on meeting her... I mean, she must know other eco-conscious people that might have eggs!


So my husband and I started driving down road 187 towards Pinones. This beach-front area has a heavy influence of our African heritage and has enormous ecological value. It is a unique place in the island where you can go and experience mangroves, lagoons, beach and have a taste of some fritters and coconuts filled with rum too. One of their victories was keeping out a pretty big development that menaced the area's heritage and ecology; and actually the pinoneros managed during their battle to make 30,000 acres of the area a natural reserve in 2007 .

Pic: entering Pinones

We arrive at "La Terraza de Domitila", and Tati quickly made us feel at home. She showed us how to make hanging planters out of coconuts, let us touch her natural compost and even invited us to eat some lunch. But we really had to keep going with our egg-hunt, and she provided some contacts, which I could never get ahold off.
Pic: Terraza Domitila

So we decided it was time to go, and to try our luck at finding eggs in the mountain.
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Ana Baez said...

Dear Karla:
I think you have a great Idea plus you are a one of a kind young lady with so much power and faith in everything that you do. I'm sure you will achieved anything that you put your mind on because your got what it takes to do it. So Good luck in your new journey!!!!!

October 9, 2008 at 5:41 AM

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