Featured Stories
One of the season's most popular shopping traditions is back: the Holiday Marketplace at Blue Ridge Food Ventures. Join us on Friday, December 11, 2015 from 10am-7pm. Take care of all your shoppping needs at this event, held annually at Blue Ridge Food Ventures, located just three miles from Exit 44 off I-40, on the A-B Tech Enka Campus, at 1461 Sand Hill Rd. in...
When Jeannine Buscher and Sarah Schomber met in September 2008, they shared two main things in common: the desire to have their children home-schooled and their love for making home-brewed kombucha, an ancient cultured health tonic revered as "the Elixir of Life." So they talked, joined a home school co-op and started crafting Buchi in Jeannine’s...
Feeling the Monday blues? Not when you hop on over to the Oskar Blues Brewery taproom, at 342 Mountain Industrial Dr., in Brevard, on October 20, 2014, for Makin’ A Difference Monday, where 10% of your purchase benefits Blue Ridge Food Ventures. Dubbed Blues3 (that is, “Blues Cubed"), the event will feature an evening of bluegrass and Oskar Blues...
After selling out the 2013 inaugural event in less than 2 weeks, 105.9 the Mountain (WTMT) invites all of Western North Carolina to go hog wild again as the Mountain presents the 2nd Annual BaconFest Asheville being held in the outdoor meadow at Highland Brewing on Saturday, August 30. Get tickets here! Enjoy the celebration of all things pork & support Blue...
For many Blue Ridge Food Ventures clients, getting their products to market can be a business dream come true. That's the case for Amy Pickett of Sugar & Snow Gelato, Ron Patton of Vortex Doughnuts, and Theresa Green of UliMana Chocolates – and now the rest of us can enjoy their delicious ideas. Hear their stories in this video on the impact of Blue...
You could call Theresa Green, founder and CEO of UliMana, a chocolate chemist. After all, it wasn’t a sweet tooth that inspired her to create a chocolate company. It was the chemical compounds in raw cacao that got her wheels excitedly turning—literally. “From the moment I tried raw cacao nibs back in 2005, when the first raw chocolate became...
The summer's hottest party benefiting Blue Ridge Food Ventures was a huge success, thanks to the support, contributions, and attendance of so many businesses and individuals. We thank you all! Check out a photo gallery here.
What do you get when you mix a PhD ceramics engineer with a marketing and package design expert, combine that with a passion for creating healthy food and cook it all up at Blue Ridge Food Ventures? BelloLea Artisan Kitchen pizza kits – the only artisan-crafted pizza kits on the market. Started in 2010 by husband and wife team Tom Gallo and Susan...
Wildcrafters with good eyes and strong hands have harvested ginseng, bloodroot and other herbal medicines for centuries in these blue mountains of the South. Today, thanks to a cooperative of growers called the Appalachian Botanical Alliance, there will be new harvests for health and healing, harvests with names like Ju Hua, Dan Shen and Yi Mu Cao. These and other...
When Randy and Cindi Beavers made the decision to leave their careers and save Cindi’s grandfather’s Sleepy Hollow Farm in Georgia in 1996, little did they know they would one day create a growers’ cooperative called BotaniPharm and develop a patented production process for producing botanical medicines with goldenseal as the primary ingredient....
