An interest in health inspired many female owners of local fermented food and beverage businesses.
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Area health and wellness experts weigh in on raw foods diets
Going raw can offer health benefits, but the diet also presents challenges.
Blue Ridge Food Ventures: Adding dimension to the local food system
From the Get It! Guide: No one could have imagined that Blue Ridge Food Ventures would become one of the best-known facilities of its type in the country or remain the largest in the Southeast to this day. Since its official opening in 2005, Blue Ridge Food Ventures has helped launch more than 250 small businesses.
Small Bites: Hempeh hits the streets
Smiling Hara begins Hempeh distribution, Moose Café celebrates its first year in Hendersonville, Marc Williams does a class on DIY fermented beverages and Foothills Meats offers a workshop on the nutrition of animal-based protein.
Buchi supports their employees in a number of ways
I currently work at Buchi and have never felt more at ease in a working relationship between a supervisor and myself than I do with Jeannine Buscher and Sarah Schomber, the owners of Buchi. I have always had complete confidence in voicing any concerns I have to them without fear of losing my job. They […]
“Local” doesn’t guarantee ethical business
The recent article on the firing at Buchi Kombucha should serve as a reminder that “local” business doesn’t inherently mean fair business ["Bottled in Bond," Dec. 22 Xpress]. Often the economic re-localization movement presents “local” as a panacea for a wide variety of economic and social woes while ignoring the systemic pressures brought to bear […]
Will work for Kombucha
I do not consider kombucha a "luxury” [”Bottled in Bond,” Dec. 22 Xpress]. It is a health drink in many cultures and essential to my healthy lifestyle. If I were employed at a business where I was given two bottles as part of my wages, I would consider it a benefit. Perhaps other local businesses […]
Buchi story more vendetta than journalism
I was rather surprised by your recent article "Bottled in Bond” [Dec. 22 Xpress]. This "reporter" is a joke and has written a completely biased, libelous and one-sided smear piece to further [his] friend’s obvious vendetta. The Mountain Xpress should be ashamed of publishing such tabloid yellow journalism. I have it on good authority (my […]
Local capitalism is still capitalism
Over the course of the 100 bloody years that it took the U.S. labor movement to win the eight-hour workday, labor militants struck, rioted and were executed for what was then seen as an overly radical demand that would destabilize industry and ruin the economy. Capitalism has undergone massive restructuring on a global scale, including […]
Where has all of the Kombucha gone?
Though Greenlife, at the urging of Whole Foods, has pulled Buchi Kombucha, as well as G.T. Dave’s Synergy brand kombucha, Buchi is still available in many locations around town, both on tap and in the bottle.
Pictured: A pint from Rosetta’s Kitchen. Photo by Jonathan Welch