The Asheville Yoga Festival is a four day event designed to bring the gift of health and wellness to Asheville through a weekend filled with world-class presenters, dynamic musicians, inspirational speakers and a diversity of vendors. Our mission is to be of service by collaborating with a

Buchi’s mission is to use our company, our kombucha, as a conduit for social change. We are a dynamic tribe of change-makers who believe that healthy guts, happy hearts, and open minds

Brad Davis was born and raised in Chicago and spent most of his life there before moving to Atlanta in 2013. He served and tended bar through college at Columbia College Chicago, along with

Chef Brian grew up loving food, not necessarily cooking. While other children would wake up early on Sundays to watch cartoons, Brian eagerly awoke to "The Galloping Gourmet" and Julia Childs. He did not start cooking until college and quickly found he had a passion for the art,

"Anyone who tries to make you believe that he knows all about wines is obviously a fake."-Leon Adams, The Commonsense Book of Wine. This business of food and wine is always so

Founded in 2008, Dynamite Roasting Co. is an artisan roaster of 100% certified organic and Fair Trade coffees directly sourced from cooperatives and small family farms located all over the

Jean-Philippe Bourgeois, a native of Bordeaux, has made it his mission to bring the best French, Spanish and Slovenian wines to the United States. His passion for building relationships with

Chef Laura Samford Smith grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and has been cooking ever since she was little. After graduating from Syracuse University, she decided to hone her skills at Le Cordon

Haw River Wine Man is based on providing authentic wines of value and integrity. Founded in 1995 by James Stock, I began working in 2001 when we grew our small company of just a few producers

Mother Earth Spirits is a distillery with a conscience - we focus on small batch production while leaving a small footprint. Our facilities are LEED® Certified and run on solar power. We

In 1985 Reza left Los Angeles for Asheville – a move that would inspire the small mountain town now nicknamed Foodtopia for its thriving culinary scene. Thirty years later Reza sold his flagship restaurant Rezaz and he and his wife Eva hit the road, traveling with their

Chef Ricardo Carrasco is originally from Tampico, a city on the Gulf of Mexico. He grew up in a vegetarian household in a city where being a vegetarian was not very common. After finishing

Richard Gras is the Executive Chef of the Sammons Wing at The Omni Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC. In this role, Gras leads and directs all kitchen operations and menu creation for the Sammons Wing restaurants and bars including Sunset Terrace, Sunset Cocktail Terrace, The Great Hall Bar, EDISON

With a lifetime of plant-based experience under her belt, Sadrah Schadel has some serious veg cred. In the lively hub of her family's kitchen, she got into the culinary game at an early