It all began with a picture in a shop window, but as the Asheville Grown Business Alliance has developed from a poster to a loyalty card to a web of interdependent local businesses, the goal has always been, well, growth.
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It all began with a picture in a shop window, but as the Asheville Grown Business Alliance has developed from a poster to a loyalty card to a web of interdependent local businesses, the goal has always been, well, growth.
Asheville’s Ira B. Jones Elementary School may have a winner: The school’s “Tuscan smoked turkey and bean soup” concoction made the final round of the Recipes for Healthy Kids competition, U.S. Department of Agriculture officials announced today, March 9. But the next round includes a chance for the public to vote for their favorite recipe among a wide field of semifinalists.