She began as a grassroots organic green juice cleanse program, including healthy soups, salads, and snacks. Since 2019, her company has focused solely on organic pumpkin seed milk. They’ve created three additional flavors and distributed products to supermarkets, like Whole Foods, in the metro area. While Patch Organics’ Pumpkin Seed Milk was originally founded in 2016, the story begins decades earlier with its founder, Patricia Trongone’s life-long passion for health, wellness, and nutrition.

Having studied many of the leading cutting-edge dietary theories at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and hands-on training at the Natural Gourmet Cooking School, along with a lifelong devotion to Kundalini Yoga in Japan and in New York, Patricia sought to bring together what she learned in the kitchen and on her yoga mat through her cookbook, The Chakra Mantra Cookbook, which offers simple, easy to prepare recipes based on the seasons and colors of the chakras—for cooks and noncooks alike.

Patricia scaled her business from there, building on these recipes to develop a line of healthy juices and nut and seed milk which she made out of a small commercial kitchen and sold at farmers’ markets and small health food stores in the New York area. It was during this venture that she met a customer and her future business partner, Gil Kernan.

What began as a grassroots organic green juice cleanse program, including healthy soups, salads, and snacks, has become a company focused solely on organic pumpkin seed milk. @patchorganics pumpkin seed milk can be found at Whole Foods and other stores around the tri-state area.