Tim Intagliata and Annie Seal are working through the Maplewood administration process to open a home gardening and cooking resource center, City Farm and Feed, on the corner of Manchester and Bellevue.
The design and review committee saw preliminary plans for the business Thursday.
Intagliata emailed details about his and Seal’s backgrounds, and the shop’s concept to 40 South News.
I am the former owner of Intaglia Furniture Collection which was based in St. Louis. We also had locations in Chicago and Atlanta. I am back in St. Louis after a four-year stint working in Melbourne, Australia, for a furniture company, Asian Tide, as creative director.
My work took me on frequent trips to China to work with our factories. I got a good glimpse of the scale of development in China which really helped me see the impact of our consumption on a bigger level that I had previously seen. I’ve most recently worked as a landscape designer and while in Australia went back and completed a grad program in Sustainable Landscape Design and my Permaculture Design Certificate.
My business partner, Annie Seal, is an avid gardener and backyard chicken enthusiast, and has had her own catering company for a while though mainly her work background has been in marketing and product development.
Annie Seal has been working in marketing her entire career, but has always had a passion for sustainability and locally-grown food. Before Whole Foods came to town, Annie was a member of three different co-ops, all of which offered fresh, local foods. She has backyard chickens and advocates natural, organic options for home gardening. City Farm and Feed is a culmination of Annie’s vision and passion to give people the tools they need to live a high-quality, more natural, homegrown life.
Annie and I both travel a lot and hope to bring some of the many things that have inspired us to our business concept. We love organics, local produce, backyard chickens, edible landscaping, composting, worm farming, permaculture, handcrafted goods, DIY, preserving and fermenting, recycled, reclaimed and repurposed things and our dogs. We hope to include as much of these in our business as we can.
City Farm and Feed is our concept for an urban version of a rural farm and feed store and modern mercantile. We will carry items that are as locally sourced as possible, sustainably produced or recycled, reclaimed or repurposed and product that helps people with growing and preserving their own food and in becoming more self sufficient.
We also hope to offer classes that tie in with our concept. Our range of product will include farmhouse dining tables crafted from old barn wood to DIY mushroom growing kits, hand forged gardening tools, food dehydrators, raised bed growing kits and edible plants. Most of our product will revolve around the kitchen and the garden, cooking and growing.
Everything one needs for the urban homestead, which is where we came up with our tag line, “Quality Goods for a Homegrown Life”.
I’m glad to see new use of that building. Will they sell chicken feed? We buy it from Scheidt, but I’m worried about the pending retirement and whether someone else will buy them or the store will close.
Are they going to be based out of that building?? I can’t seem to place the location.
Sounds awesome. I can’t wait!