Craft Talk ~~ Noel Glab

With a mind geared well for organizational management as well as nutritional creativity Noel brought her administrative training at Michigan's General Motors Institute (GMI) to California and hybridized her focus into food retail and now in production.  Her business acumen at Silicon Valley 's Shugart Electronics and Sun Microsystems quickly morphed to the Northbay, where she co-founded G and G Grocery Markets.  Noel's creativity also transformed Ceres, the County meals-on-wheels kitchen/distributor to become its' own revenue stream as well,  by producing high quality food for retail sale on their website.  Not content to just sell food, Noel and her husband Chris managed to raise daughter Alex now 27 and Nate 25.  Alex works in San Francisco also in nutritional foods while Nate is teaching English in Central America.

In 2011 Noel and Chris established "Wildbrine" with 5 employees in a small warehouse.  Today the venture employs 75 and produces 320,000 pounds of organic, highly nutritious, probiotic brined cuisine.  Featured at Olivers, Safeway, Trader Joe's and Whole Foods, these sauerkraut style, fermented savories were provided for our sampling by Noel.  Gluten free, non-genetically modified (non-GMO), raw and vegan, these colorfully packaged foods found many new flavor fans.  Thank you Noel, and Wildbrine for a gustatory jump start to the day!