This is a Seated Brunch, with a mocktail hour followed by a four course meal with paired beverages, featuring 4 chefs and several craft beverage makers. All beverages for this event will be zero proof/non-alcoholic.
Mental health awareness and its impacts have been heightened during the pandemic, across all industries. During this event, we will gather together over a delicious shared meal to lift each other up. With each course, we'll hear important stories of mental health and its intersections with our foodways from high-pressure restaurant kitchens to farming as therapy, and how communities can create safe, healthy and healing spaces.
Speakers: Steve Palmer - Ben’s Friends; Alan Yeck - Veterans Healing Farm, Jeremy French - Making Whole, Ashley & Heather Tolbert - From the Ashes Cultural Arts & Counseling
Featured Chefs/Restaurants: Paul Cressend, Paulieboy Enterprises, Tyler Slade - Bargello/District 42, Matthew Raiford - The Chefarmer
Featured Beverage (all Zero Proof/NA): Shanti Elixirs, Savor Shrub, High Climate Tea, Matcha Nude, Pisgah Coffee Roasters, Seedlip, Buchi, Devil's Foot Beverage Company, Mountain Valley Spring Water
Event Sponsor: BlueCross BlueShield of NC
Venue Sponsor: Smoky Park Supper Club
This is a Seated Brunch, with a mocktail hour followed by a four course meal with paired beverages, featuring 4 chefs and several craft beverage makers. All beverages for this event will be zero proof/non-alcoholic.
Mental health awareness and its impacts have been heightened during the pandemic, across all industries. During this event, we will gather together over a delicious shared meal to lift each other up. With each course, we'll hear important stories of mental health and its intersections with our foodways from high-pressure restaurant kitchens to farming as therapy, and how communities can create safe, healthy and healing spaces.
Speakers: Steve Palmer - Ben’s Friends; Alan Yeck - Veterans Healing Farm, Jeremy French - Making Whole, Ashley & Heather Tolbert - From the Ashes Cultural Arts & Counseling
Featured Chefs/Restaurants: Paul Cressend, Paulieboy Enterprises, Tyler Slade - Bargello/District 42, Matthew Raiford - The Chefarmer
Featured Beverage (all Zero Proof/NA): Shanti Elixirs, Savor Shrub, High Climate Tea, Matcha Nude, Pisgah Coffee Roasters, Seedlip, Buchi, Devil's Foot Beverage Company, Mountain Valley Spring Water
Event Sponsor: BlueCross BlueShield of NC
Venue Sponsor: Smoky Park Supper Club
Paul (he/him) was born and raised in New Orleans, LA and has worked in fine dining restaurant kitchens for over 20 years, specializing in Modern Contemporary American, Italian, Mediterranean, and Louisiana cuisines, and trained by some of the best chefs from Tuscany, Italy and Sicily, Nashville, Charlotte and Asheville. Paul caters large parties and private Chef events in Asheville, NC. Create it and plate it!
×Since working with Posana for 6 years early in his culinary career, Chef Tyler (he/him) opened his award winning restaurant ’10 Market’ near Beaufort, SC. An immersive, from scratch restaurant experience, 10 Market showcased his creative ingenuity receiving many awards and accolades. Originally from Vermont, Chef Tyler graduated from New England Culinary Institute with extensive French culinary training and now serves as Executive Chef at Bargello creating locally sourced dishes including fresh hand-rolled pasta, house-made bread, and innovative Mediterranean cuisine.
×A descendant of the Gullah Geechie, Matthew (he/him) farms Gilliard Farms, sixth-generation land in his family since 1874, working alongside farmers and chefs to bridge the gap between the seed and the table. After a military career, he attended The Culinary Institute of America and the UC Santa Cruz Center for AgroEcology and Sustainable Food System. He is the co-founder with his wife, Tia, of Strong Roots 9, creating products and experiences to reconnect with the nation’s heritage, from the perspective of the people whose ancestors helped build it.
×Steve Palmer (he/him), a JBF Outstanding Restaurateur Award nominee and semifinalist, is the Founder and Chief Vision Officer of the hospitality and consulting company, The Indigo Road Hospitality Group, with restaurants and hotels throughout the Southeast and beyond. Palmer is also Co-Founder of Ben’s Friends, an industry group offering community, hope and a path forward for those struggling with substance abuse and addiction.
×Yeck (he/him) is a former US Marine, Special Intelligence Communications as well as an Information Management Officer with the U.S. Department of State. He lived and worked in Africa, Europe, Central America, and the Middle East. He is the author of “2266” about the abandonment of American POW/MIAs during the Vietnam War. Veterans Healing Farm was born out of a sincere desire to create a place where veterans can plug into a new community, and discover a new "mission" outside of the military.
×Jeremy (he/him) got sober in 1995 and brings his experience of living sober and helping others to do the same. He is a maker. He's made lots of cool things--a sober life worth living, a marriage, some really great kids, time to spend outside, some good and some poor decisions on the soccer field, and some furniture. He is a pioneer in architectural concrete, and has traveled the world teaching makers in the craft. He is the director of Making Whole, an apprenticeship program for recovering drug addicts in Asheville NC, teaching men how to build fine furniture.
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Ashley (she/Her) has a MA in Forensic Psychology and BS in Psychology, and a Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist and Clinical Supervisor Intern. I am part of the Black/female/LGBTQIA+ community and hope to offer my services to diverse groups struggling with substance use/addiction and mental health. Through healing and transformation my goal is to help you acknowledge, accept, and celebrate your differences.
×Heather (she/her) is a native of WNC. She is a Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist and Clinical Supervisor Intern, and has a BS in Psychology and an MS in Criminal Forensic Studies. She uses her gifts, talents, experiences, education, and her authentic self to help others feel empowered to live as their authentic selves. She wants to normalize seeking help and mental health struggles and addiction, and let people know that they are not alone.
×Kat Savage (she/her) is a WNC native, passionate naturalist & foodie. SAVOR makes NA mixers in an homage to herbal & European traditions of bitters & shrubs. She has been involved in herbalism for 20 years & has her BS in Natural Health. Formerly co-owning & formulating for a respected herb school & tincture company, she has taught about health around the southeast. SAVOR’s mission is to encourage clients to drop in & savor life’s little moments with better bitters.
×We travel to China every year to meet with farmers high in the mountains who grow their tea using traditional methods without the use of any chemicals or pesticides to ensure we provide the purest, all natural tea on the planet.
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Matcha Nude exists because finding organic, pure matcha that tastes good, is affordable + good for the planet is actually pretty hard to come by. We offer affordable premium grade organic, non-gmo matcha that is ethically sourced from Japan + is packaging in 100% compostable packaging. Our matcha is naturally soft and sweet in flavor and doesn't need additional sweeteners. We are on a mission to show the world the power of this incredible tea + the lifestyle that comes with it.
×Global Coffee. Local Flavor. Craft Coffee Roaster & Café, located in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
×Seedlip is on a mission to change the way the world drinks with the highest quality non-alcoholic options.
×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 are directly linked. If you want to understand who we are and why we pour our hearts and souls into this adventure, take a moment to journey with us.
×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.
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