GALION – A farm woman at heart who grew up in Crawford County has embraced her roots and pursued her passion for making pure “farm-to-table” foodstuff.

Deborah Mahon is “The Gourmet Farm Woman.”

Mahon owns the specialty meals organization known as “The Gourmet Farm Female,” which she released again in 2010.  Her all-pure chilis, soups, and sauces are sold on Amazon, at Kroger, and at hundreds of merchants and marketplaces from Michigan to West Virginia.

“The factor is, I have usually had a passion for foods,” said Mahon, who was elevated on her family’s dairy and grain farm – Stump’s Heritage Farm Inc. – southeast of Bucyrus.  “Growing up on a dairy farm, it’s in my blood, alongside with cooking and gardening.”

Her foodstuff things – all well prepared from authentic recipes – consist of 5 types of vegan chili, with Buckeye Chili the major vendor, Mahon claimed.  “It’s just a clever identify I arrived up with.  It’s the milder of the chilis, incredibly kid-pleasant.  It’s a present product, a novelty.”

Other specialty products contain her bean and vegetable soup, heritage tomato soup, and a tortilla soup starter, together with infused balsamic and further-virgin olive oils.  She also made an all-natural hotdog/coney sauce for the meat division of Kroger’s Columbus Division, which is out there in spicy or original flavors.

Mahon, a Colonel Crawford Superior Faculty graduate, mentioned she introduced her company throughout the increase of the “farm-to-table” social motion.  She was residing in Delaware, Ohio, at the time and began smaller by peddling seasoning blends and dry soup mixes at region farmer’s markets.

In the “foodie world,” Mahon stated, she experienced the opportunity to hook up with a foods scientist who also owned a co-packing facility.  In 2014, she teamed up with the U.S.D.A.-authorised plant to make, deal, and label hundreds of gallons of her goods for distribution.

The Kroger Co. latched on to her item line through a food exhibit and networking occasion, Mahon mentioned, given that her contemporary, gluten-no cost foodstuff seemed to be the ideal match for the grocery store chain’s start of its new “Nature’s Market” area.

In 2015, Mahon stated,…