Meet your neighbors: fun on Fordyce Place

Webmaster Posted Sun 3-8-09

olive_oil_lg As they do every December, Tracy Stanton and Carlos Cuevasa recently hosted a gathering at their Fordyce Place home featuring several local jewelry and textile artisans. Tracy and Carlos share an interest in healthy lifestyles and the environment. Having retired from the World Bank, Carlos now works in microfinance—providing financial services to poor and low-income clients—while Tracy is a program manager at Ecosystem Marketplace, an information source on ecosystem services such as water quality and biodiversity. They are both runners.

It’s natural that Tracy and Carlos’s neighbors Keith and Lynn Voight would be included in this artisan line-up. In addition to their day jobs, the Voights own All Things Olive, which specializes in authentic olive oil and other gourmet food items. You may have run into them at the Kensington Farmers’ Market on Saturday mornings. With an exotic choice of California extra virgin olive oils, herb infused olive oils, wine vinegars and tapenades on hand and ready for tasting, Keith will explain all there is to know about the health benefits of olive oil and more. The Voights came up with the idea for the business after a trip to Paris. And they live right here in Maplewood!

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