Brewer’s Cafe is a place I always sing the praises of but it just enough out of may that I don’t give the financial support I should. Owner Ajay is always finding new ways to improve the neighborhood and the latest effort is more of the same. He’s started a Kickstarter to provide cold-pressed juice in 16 oz reusable glass bottles containing 100% raw fruits and vegetables sourced from locally-owned farms in Virginia.

Why should you support Brewer’s Cafe Cold-Pressed Juice? To answer that, I have to tell you how it all began.

My journey to entrepreneurship started back in 2015 when I quit my job as a stock broker and began working on a business plan to open a coffee shop on the south side of my hometown, Richmond, Virginia. I had quit my job just 3 months after my son, Parker, was born. As a new dad, I felt a huge responsibility to do something more meaningful with my life. I wanted to create something that I could proudly pass on to my son; and I wanted to give back to the city that raised me. It was my belief that successful black men should not move away from the underserved communities that they may have grown up in, but should live and work there, in order to truly make a difference. So I opened up my coffee shop, Brewer’s Cafe, in the fall of 2015 in the neighborhood I grew up in, one that had long been neglected, in hopes to be part of the effort to breathe new life into it.