On The Grow With VA's Blue Ridge Dairy

One can only hope Steve Renzi wasn't driving as fast as he was talking.

He squeezed in an interview about his new role as business development manager for Blue Ridge Dairy while driving from a meeting outside of the office back to his next set of duties for the bustling business. The excitement poured out of him as he described working with his friend, Blue Ridge Dairy owner Paul Stephan.

“He has always made a phenomenal product that I’ve always promoted, basically sold, but didn’t sell for him directly,” Renzi said of Stephan. “I’ve always loved it. The cheese is fantastic. The yogurt is fantastic…. It’s hard to believe that we have a local manufacturer here that produces this cheese, and not just buys curd, heats it up and stretches it, and calls it his own cheese.”

Renzi said he’d “always wanted to be a part of it,” but it wasn’t until he recently got tired of the ups and downs of the construction industry did things come together.

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