Surviving a difficult economy while growing her business has been a challenge for Jane MacDonald. Not only has she persevered, however, but the founder and president of Monterey Farms has just moved her company into a new and larger processing facility in south Salinas.
So she would not lose any production time this month, MacDonald moved from the Sand City location where she started the business in 2002 to the new location in a single weekend.
Monterey Farms does nothing but process artichokes. For two decades, MacDonald worked in the food service industry, and she understood the labor that went into taking fresh artichokes and working them down to the hearts which could be then used as appetizers or in recipes.
"I knew because this was such a labor-intensive process that many chefs just didn't want to do this, so they were just opening up canned or bottled artichokes," she said. "The artichokes would reflect the taste of the oil or brine they were packed in and they weren't always that great."
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