In 1969, Salvador Plasencia started La Esperanza as a Mexican-style bakery. Now the 52-year-old business provides a wide range of essentials for the Capital Region’s Latino community.

Started by Louis Niello in San Francisco as a shop specializing in repairs and maintenance of Packard automobiles in 1921, The Niello Company is celebrating four generations of family ownership.

Co-owners Rafael Galiano and John Martin describe Park Winters, a 10-acre estate that serves as a venue for weddings, parties, flower picking and other activities, as “a countryside escape.”

From the corporate world to a rolling piece of land, a husband-wife team runs Bella Grace Vineyards in Amador County.

Auburn-based Flyers Energy is expanding on its history of supplying fuel to trucking fleets.

A father-and-son team have kept Newcastle-based Selby’s Soil Erosion Control business operating since the 1960s.

Clint Hopkins and his husband Joel Hockman are the current owners of Pucci’s Pharmacy in Sacramento, a 90-year-old business with a long history of inclusion. 

The Granite Bay farm was established in 1911 by a Japanese immigrant and is still run by his descendants, including his 104-year-old daughter.

Tens of thousands of acres of almond orchards are pulled up each year in California. Knotty Wood is out to put those trees to better use. 

Nonprofits make up 97 percent of All-Cal’s clientele, which has been run by the Esparza family in Roseville for more than 30 years.