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Asheville’s French Broad Co-Op expands, stays rooted Focusing on natural foods was seen as alternative — even a little weird — around the time a small group of people who took eating right seriously hatched the idea that became French Broad Food Co-Op. The food-buying club started on a few front porches in the mid-1970s, […]
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FRENCH BROAD FOOD CO-OP – Biltmore Ave, Downtown Asheville I love the French Broad Food Co-op. I’ll admit that it took me a while to get used to the limited selection there, especially after living so close to the sprawling and expansive Greenlife/Wholefoods/Trader Ho’s/Harris Teets food compound up there in North Asheville for so long.
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Apothecary Class Listings All of us should have a small home apothecary to treat those common issues that pop up regularly…cuts, colds, rashes, and belly aches to name a few. In this series, you will learn how to blend your own teas, make tinctures, herbal oils, salves and many other topical treatments to soothe everything
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Easy Gift Idea: DIY Lip Balm Making your own lip balm is beyond easy. In a matter of minutes, you can craft a few tubes to give as gifts (and one to keep for pampering yourself). What makes DIY lip balm so great? Not only can you make it just the way you like it,
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Back to School Diffusions for the Family Rosemary, peppermint and lemon – For motivating the student who doesn’t want to get out of summer mode and go back to school. This happy and energizing combo can wake up even the grumpiest summer gamer who got used to staying up into the wee hours and doesn’t
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Cleaning Your Yoga Mat with Dr. Bronners The yogic practice of “saucha,” meaning cleanliness or purity, often incorporates various breathing techniques and postures to detox the physical body. Just as we wouldn’t want any contaminants or stagnant energy within our body, the same goes for our external world. The most important thing when it comes
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Make Your Summer More Environmentally Friendly with reef-safe sunblock. Protecting yourself from the harmful effects of the sun is important. About 14,000 tons of sunscreen wind up in our oceans every year, with the most damage being done to fragile coral reefs in Hawaii and the Caribbean. The good news: you can use mineral sunblocks,
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GM Report Annual Meeting June 4th, 2018 By Bobby Sullivan What’s been going on with the co-op? In the retail world, we have been experiencing what’s being called the “retail apocalypse,” and that’s after we already experienced what the Asheville Citizen Times called “Asheville’s grocery invasion.” This is why Earth Fare closed a bunch of
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November 2017, Development Project Update from the FBFC Board of Directors Development is a complicated process. While we went into the project with an ambitious outlook, ensuring the continued viability of the French Broad Food Coop has been the primary focus of the Board of Directors. Our ambitions for the project remain and we now