Boulder teamaker brews strong partnership in India

BOULDER — Ken Vickerstaff takes a David and Goliath approach to business. Bigger, he asserts, isn’t necessarily better.

“It takes a true entrepreneurial spirit to put a hand in the air and say, ‘Hey, guys, there’s a better way,'” says Vickerstaff, chief executive of Boulder-based teamaker Organic India.

By better he means more sustainable – both economically and agriculturally. The biblical analogy is especially apt since David, the proverbial little guy, is a shepherd who takes care of his flock. The Goliath in this story represents those forces that have traditionally governed agribusiness.

A veteran of the natural foods industry, Vickerstaff took on…