Laura Button – Smyrna, TN
For more than 25 years, Laura Button has been helping people explore healthier ways of eating by teaching them techniques for making delicious, fresh, organic, raw foods. Through working relationships with local family and community farmers in Middle Tennessee, Journey to Bliss Raw Foods is committed to reconnecting people to the source of their food, to empower both those who grow and those who eat.

Linden Vineyards, Linden, Virginia

Since 1983, Jim Law has been delicately working the soil at Hardscrabble Vineyard in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, intent upon growing the best grapes in order to produce the best wine in the region. The soil, site, and microclimate are even more important to Jim than the grape varieties. The combination of a cool mountain microclimate and well-drained mineral soils give Linden Vineyard wines their fresh, assertive aromas and concentrated flavors.

BELL & EVANS – Fredericksburg, Pennsylvania

Bell & Evans is a leading producer of chickens raised without antibiotics.  For four generations, beginning in the 1890s, Bell & Evans has been raising and processing the highest quality chickens in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country, in a modern facility equipped with the latest technology. The birds are raised on an all-vegetarian diet in a low stress environment, and delivered to Whole Foods Market within 24 hours of processing to ensure a fresh product with premium flavor.

Jessica & Jeremy Little

Thomasville, GA

Sweet Grass Dairy’s goats and cows graze happily outdoors on lush green pastures in south Georgia and receive no growth hormones or stimulants. Their fresh hand-crafted, semi-ripened and naturally-aged goat and cow cheeses are some of the most unique and delicious cheeses to grace a plate.

The Thompson family has been farming in southern Brooks County, Georgia, since the early 1930s. Today, Raymond and his son Andrew own and operate Thompson Farm Smokehouse, where they continue the tradition of providing excellent quality food grown on a small family farm. The Thompsons raise pastured pork and employ old-fashioned salt curing methods to ensure superior flavor in Thompson Farm meat.

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As one of the pioneers of organic farming in Georgia, Nicolas Donck grows a diverse selection of certified organic vegetables and herbs year-round on his family’s land east of Atlanta.  When Nicolas was 16, he left his home in Belgium and moved to Georgia to join his mother on her 175-acre farm.  Since then, Nicolas started Atlanta’s first organic farmer’s market in 1995, and has continued to add considerable acreage into organic production on his farm.  Nicolas says the best thing about farming is having the opportunity to live close to the earth with his family.

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After selling his financial business to Wall Street, Brian Schiner set out to pursue his true passion for farming. He began reading books from the 1800’s about raising sheep and decided that he would raise his herd according to these old techniques crafted to mimic an animal’s livelihood in the wilderness. Today Brian keeps watch over the largest sheep farm in Maryland. All of the animals at Wagon Wheel Ranch are grass-fed, raised without the use of antibiotics, and allowed to roam freely over acres of pasture.

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Using a controlled greenhouse environment near Sweetwater Creek in Canton, Georgia, James Dault of Sweetwater Growers cultivates fresh culinary herbs and microgreens year-round, hand-picks them daily and delivers them within 48 hours, in an effort to bring the freshest herbs and greens to Whole Foods Market.

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Located in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, Bottomley Farms has been in operation since 1991 growing Christmas trees, pumpkins and vegetables. When Mitchell Bottomley was a child, he and his grandfather spent endless hours each winter tying evergreen garlands to sell for a little extra Christmas money. After his grandfather’s death in 1990, Mitchell turned that side-job into a booming business. In 2000, Mitchell Bottomley and his family expanded further, setting aside a small space on their family farm for pumpkin fields. That little space amidst a sea of evergreen trees has since grown to some 400 acres planted with more than 14 varieties of pumpkins.

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All the milk at Homestead Creamery comes from two local farms, both in their third and fourth generations of family ownership.  The milk is free of all hormones and antibiotics, and because the milk is sold in recycled glass bottles it tastes fresher longer and is more environmentally friendly.

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