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B.A.D. Composting is a compost co-op that collects food scraps from individuals as well as providing gardening help like building compost bins and permaculture gardens.
Learn More: www.bit.ly/badcomposting |
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Between the Trees Bread is a micro-bakery in the heart of the High Country in Boone, NC. They bake naturally leavened breads with a long, cold fermentation for flavor and digestibility. They offer a variety of breads that highlight grains grown in an environmentally friendly way. They strive to source local and regional grains and ingredients because they believe that shortening the supply chain and being as much of a part of the process as possible is an important step to a more sustainable and equitable way of doing business.
Learn More: Instagram: @betweenthetreesbread |
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Browns Farm Ridge Beef is a 5th generation farm producing premium local beef in the High Country. From their inception, they have placed a huge emphasis on developing their cattle on a formulated ration that intentionally builds layers of flavor within the meat. It is their hope and desire that their beef can bring you and your family around a dinner table and be the conversation starter that brings you together.
Learn More: www.bfrbeef.com/ |
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Black Birch Her-Pothecary is a certified holistic and clinical herbalist. She has studied through the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine. She is located in Watauga county where she produces all of her herbal remedies by hand. All products are organic, or ethically wild crafted. Products include teas, tinctures, salves, steams, broth bags, bear oils, role on scents, epsom salt baths, medicinal vinegar, medicinal honey, face mask powders, skin toners, steams, and more.
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Boone Barndog prints original art and poetry onto garments, and sells original coloring books.
Learn More: www.boonebarndog.com/ |
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Blue Ridge Valley Farm is a small produce farm using horse power and earth centered values to bring nutritious, meaningful food to everyone in the High Country. All of their produce is non-gmo and they use zero synthetic/non-organic sprays, pesticides or materials. Their farm specializes in fresh greens, roots, okra, and peppers, but they grow much more! They are located in Triplett, NC, just 20 minutes from Boone, and farm on less than one acre.
Learn More: www.brvfarm.com |
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Community Well Chocolate makes artisan bars that are designed with you in mind. Kid tested and athlete approved. From taste & texture to how it makes you feel, this chocolate will have you saying: Good. It doesn't stop when the bar is done. Each bar supports someone in need with clean water. A single bar will help get water for 1 person for 1 year!
Learn More: www.cwchocolate.com |
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Daffodil Spring Farm is a community-scale farm located in the pastoral Valle Crucis community of Watauga County. Farmed by Dave Walker, Daffodil Spring Farm raises pastured pork that is Certified Animal Welfare Approved by A Greener World and delicious vegetables. Daffodil Spring Farm practices regenerative agriculture, growing food that is good for the land, animals, and our community.
Learn More: www.daffodilspringfarm.com |
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Faith Mountain Farm is a family farm owned and operated by James and Shannon Wilkes, along with their children and grandchildren. Depending on the time of year and their current interests and energy, they keep a flock of laying hens that lay big brown and blue eggs, raise pastured pork, and poultry, manage a sideliner beekeeping operation producing various honey varieties including prized sourwood, and produce their famous granola, muffins, scones, chewy balls, and other baked goods including gluten free options. Honeybees are a big part of the landscape with hives on the farm and scattered about the High Country and foothills. Growing season brings numerous vegetables and rows and rows of sunflowers for selling at the market.
Learn More: www.faithmtnfarm.com |
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Happy Heart currently sells charcuterie boards and coasters.
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Hedge Family Farm is setting their roots on a quiet 1/2 acre in Lenoir, NC. They are Mike and Sara at Hedge Family Farm! Their dream is to create a sustainable food system while inspiring others. With their own love for high-quality food and variety of flavor, they are focused on nutrient-dense produce, and high vibrational soil, they are bringing the very best for you and your family.
Learn More: www.hedgefamilyfarm.com |
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High Country Herbs started out as a small herb farm in 2017 with a primary focus on basil. They have since expanded to industrial hemp and have completely devoted their time to researching, cultivating, and selling this amazingly versatile crop. In addition, they grow row vegetables, several varieties of herbs, and raise goats, chickens, and pigs!
Learn More: www.hcherbs.com |
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Hillside Haven Farm is a small family farm located in the beautiful hills of Carter County, TN, about 25 miles from Boone, NC. They love to grow food, and have a variety of vegetables and small fruits. Those include lettuce, kale, spinach, green beans, tomatoes, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, okra, sugar snap peas, field peas, and several others. They also have blueberry bushes and plan to put in raspberries and strawberries this year. They use natural fertilizers and additives for their soil, such as compost, worm castings, alfalfa, greensand, and lime. They like to avoid using sprays but when they are necessary, they use organic ones. They love to provide healthy food from their family to yours, and look forward to serving you!
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Mountain Flowers Hemp focuses on the production of craft, small batch hemp grown in controlled indoor environments using living soil techniques. Their speciality is cured hemp flower, salves, and hand crafted hemp products to enhance the experience of life. It is a farmer owned, farmer grown operation based in beautiful Boone, North Carolina. Their lead cultivator moved to the state of Washington and spent 7 years cultivating in both medicinal and recreational facilities. Recent changes in legislation inspired them to move back home and continue to pursue their passion for sustainable agriculture where it all began.
Learn More: www.mountainflowershemp.com |
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Resupply makes soap (bar and liquid) as well as other household and personal care items that are sold in a refillable format, or in compostable/no packaging, emphasizing sustainability. They also try to source as locally as possible whenever possible.
Learn More: www.resupplyboone.com |
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Sweet Dreams Patisserie is a bakery based out of the Patterson School Foundation in Lenoir, NC. Pastry chef and owner, Colleen Feeney, is taking her experience and skills in fine dining to provide five star flavors at an every day cost. Sweet Dreams produces your favorite classic treats, but with an elevated twist to provide a one of a kind dessert experience. She does not use bleached flour, nor sugar, and strives to utilize as many locally sourced and organic ingredients as she can.
Learn More: Instagram: @sweetdreamsboone |
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This Earthly Life creates cards and prints of her wall art. The works she is highlighting at this time are primarily pen and ink, gouache on watercolor paper, and hand painted cards (gouache on watercolor paper). She has begun her study to become a metalsmith jewelry maker.
Learn More: www.thisearthlylife.com |
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F.A.R.M Cafe is a nonprofit, community cafe located in downtown Boone, NC. Their mission is to build a healthy and inclusive community by providing high quality and delicious meals, produced from local sources whenever possible, in a restaurant where everybody eats, regardless of means. Ready-to-eat meals and products are available on a donate-what-you basis at the High Country Food Hub, the Boone Winter Farmers Market, and the King Street Market. All proceeds directly support programs which provide the same meals to food insecure individuals at no charge. They offer a rotating selection of soups, salad dressings, casseroles, and popsicles!
Learn More: www.farmcafe.org |
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For the Love of All Dogs makes treats that are made with lots of love for their pups. They have flavors like peanut butter and bacon. Their dogs love them and they hope yours will also. All of their treats are hand-cut and packaged for freshness.
Learn More: Instagram: @fortheloveofalldogs |
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Gala Crafts creates stained glass pieces. Their goal with stained glass is to capture all the wild, varied, spectacular colors and textures of nature in unique art, glass pieces. They love adding copper wire, antique glass plates, and even occasional spoons to their pieces to accentuate the natural movement of the glass. Whenever possible they incorporate found and recycled glass, wire and bevels into their pieces. They have been working in the medium for over 20 years and have learned (sometimes the hard way) to love the music of breaking glass.
Learn More: www.galacrafts.com |
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Poppy Papers creates journals, notebooks, handmade paper, notecards, cards, and products incorporating dried flowers and brewed herbs from home.
Learn More: Instagram: @pondpapers |
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SNIPS of Watauga Humane Society is a Positive Solution, is 30+ members strong and growing. Original arts and crafts are sold throughout the year at fairs, malls, general stores, and other venues throughout the community to fund low-cost spay/neuter surgeries. SNIPS is dedicated to reducing animal intake and euthanasia numbers by raising funds to provide low-cost spay/neuter services for Watauga and Ashe County pets. The program is intended to help pet owners for whom the cost of spay/neuter surgery is a hardship. All animals deserve help, thus, no one is turned away.
Learn More: www.wataugahumane.org |
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Sugar and Steel is located in Boone. They create handmade jewelry using mixed metals, leather, and/or stained glass. They focus on a variety of different styles from homely to elegant to edgy. They use a variety of different techniques in the creation of their pieces. Some pieces are etched with a unique design. All of their metal pieces are smithed. The stained glass pieces are created using the Tiffany Method.
Learn More: www.etsy.com/shop/SugarAndSteelShop |
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Blue Ridge Chaga Connection is located in Fairview, NC. All of their products are ethically foraged, by them, from the forest, and all are local to WNC. They offer teabag sets, tinctures, and dried mushrooms of the medicinal variety including Chaga, Reishi, Lions Mane, Maitake and Turkey Tail.
Learn More: www.blueridgechagaconnection.com |
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So Below Farm grows vegetables in Sugar Grove, NC. Their goal is to provide fresh, nutritious food for their community in a way that supports biodiversity and soil fertility. They grow their plants from organically sourced seed and only feed the garden with natural soil amendments and compost.
Learn More: www.sobelowfarmnc.com |
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Triple Peaks Hemp was started in 2017 as a part of their family's century old farm. They grow all locally sourced plants on the hillside facing Three Top Mountain in Ashe County, hence the name, "Triple Peaks". These plants are then processed using CO2 extraction, and then hand-made into an array of CBD and hemp products. They have multiple products ranging from tinctures and pain salves, to skincare, and bath and body products. Triple Peaks is helping change lives one product at a time!
Learn More: www.triplepeakshemp.com |
