Coming to Fruition — The Midwest’s Bounty in a Bottle
“Jenny Solberg Katzman was raised with what she characterizes as “a very Midwestern upbringing”—a lot of honest, do-it-yourself hard work, in a family of bootstrapping entrepreneurs. Her family members have all worked on an assembly line at some point, sometimes together. She and her siblings weeded the yard on Sundays and mowed the lawn in their bathing suits. One chore Katzman had that perhaps not many other Chicago third-graders did: mashing up apples, pears, and other fruit on a handmade, bike-powered fruit chopper. (She lovingly calls it “that bike contraption.”)” …