Oakes Farms founder and CEO Alfie Oakes stands for a portrait in his Seed to Table store while it is still under construction in October 2019, a couple of months before the 77,000-square-foot store launched on the northeast corner of Livingston and Immokalee roads in North Naples. Photo by Tim Aten
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ALFIE OAKES
A polarizing community figure
Grocery magnate and farmer Alfie Oakes is a galvanizing personality in Naples, with many loving him for his stores or politics — or denouncing him for his stores’ prices or his outspoken criticisms and behind-the-scenes work in support of Republican Party causes.
