Author: Calvin Penn

August’s installment of the Local First Lexington’s Coffee Meet-Up series will be held at Manchester Coffee Co. Our topic is Building Strategic Partnerships to Grow Your Business. Our local expert this month is Ashley C. Smith, Co-Founder of Black Soil: Our Better Nature.   Ashley has been involved with a number of organizations and businesses in the Lexington community, including NetGain Technologies, the Lyric Theater & Cultural Arts Center, CRAVE food + music festival, Fayette Alliance, Southern Foodways Alliance, Visit LEX, the Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange, and The Art Of The Rural. Let’s talk about ways to build partnerships with...