Eric has spent a lifetime creating both visual and delicious dishes in the kitchen. His passion for his culinary craft is enthusiastic and admirable, and inspired by his grandmother. Being a native to WNC, he is eager to preserve heirloom ingredients to ensure the history of food in WNC.

Brian Crow grew up in WNC and attained his culinary degree at AB Tech. Brian moved to Denver and was named top 30 chefs in Colorado under 30 by Zagat Magazine. In 2017 he became executive chef at Chestnut.

Ice Cream Maker, Baker, Creator, and Co-Owner of The Hop Ice Cream in Asheville. Ashley creates and maintain recipes for handcrafted dairy and vegan ice cream, pastries and baked goods, though, as owner, her hands are in everything.

Hominy Farm reflects a passion for locally sourced and milled grains, natural leavening techniques, and wood fired baking, and sources ingredients with care, creating zero waste, using only plant based ingredients, and planting seeds and trees on the homestead year round.

Sarah and her husband live on a 10-acre farm just outside of Asheville. Their property has been in her family for over 100 years. In 2014 she started Well Seasoned Table, a seasoning company that grows, wildcrafts, and locally sources 80% of the ingredients that go into their products.

Kim Bailey is the founder of Milkweed Meadows Farm in Fruitland, NC where she grows milkweeds as well as pawpaws, passionfruits, heirloom vegetables, and flowers.

Phyllis Stiles is founder and director emerita of Bee City USA®, a national city and college campus pollinator conservation certification program launched from Asheville, NC, in 2012.

Brewed with Epiphany Craft Malt, Archetype is crafting a delicious Chow Chow Dark Lager coming in at 5.4% ABV.

Available NOW while it lasts!

Botanist & Barrel crafts real southern ciders, fruited sours, and wines. Focused on spontaneous, wild cultures and light-handed winemaking we embrace old world methods with modern sensibilities.

Culinary inspired, locally and globally infused, and experimental at its heart – we at Bhramari Brewing Co. want to always create what inspires us so that you might be inspired as well.

Since 2015, our family distillery has been crafting award-winning spirits and taking them one step further. Cultivated Cocktails blends legacy with innovation, art with science. We age our spirits with care, choice oaks and unique flavors. 

Farm-To-Can Craft Soda. We pride ourselves on working with Organic Roots & Fruits to create a healthier, more flavorful non-alcoholic experience for everyone in our communities.

The Times Bar is a craft cocktail bar and coffee shop nestled in the heart of downtown Asheville, located in the historic S&W Cafeteria building. The team here specializes in both seasonally inspired + classic cocktails, craft coffees, and offers rotating local beer + import wine.

Vodka distilled with real botanicals and infused with natural fruit essences. Like you, we care about what’s in the bottle, so we use real ingredients – with no sugar, no artificial sweeteners and no artificial flavors. 

One of the few breweries in the US creating carbonation with local wildflower honey in our unfiltered, unpasteurized, naturally carbonated farmhouse ales, traditional lagers, and hard jun kombucha. We are a farm brewery that is taking the craft of brewing back to its agricultural roots. 

Founded in the new 'Craft Brew Mecca' of Asheville and North Carolina's apple country, Noble brings together a rich local history of agriculture with this region’s exciting craft beverage industry. We make a variety of things...mead, spritzers, wine, and cider of course!

We hope you enjoy our SAVOR’s aperitif shrub bitters as much as we do. Each batch is made, fermented, pressed, and bottled by hand in very small, 8 gallon batches. SAVOR is always small-batch, handmade, with love. Thanks for the opportunity to share tasty beverages with you! Cheers!

While it's one of the worlds oldest fermented beverages, we're not serving anything dated. Our take on Mead is something new, something refreshing. Best of all, our meads are made with our locally produced Appalachian Mountain honey and each is gluten free. 

An edible art collective sourcing local luxury and specialty foods to create an unforgettable dining experience. My company specializes in unique styled setting, micro and macro, to display our client’s dream graze!

The North Carolina Glass Center is a non-profit, public access glass studio and gallery. We are dedicated to education, exploration, and collaboration in all forms of glass.