Ashley Heaton

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Ashley Heaton is passionate about food and a huge proponent of supporting local businesses. In her role with Whole Foods Market, she manages advertising, social media, community outreach and brand building for stores in our Midwest Region, from Chicago to Toronto. Since graduating from DePaul University, she’s focused on brand management and strategic and creative thinking for a wide range of retail, entertainment and food service brands.

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September 25, 2010 @ Whole Story

Two Brothers Brewery Jason and Jim Ebel Warrenville, IL Beer lovers by nature, the Ebel brothers’ passion for creating beer were bolstered by a “beer adventure” in Europe. The trip helped the two brothers hone in their love for how beer is created – and celebrated. They wanted to bring those same qualities to America, where beer is still considered “that yellow, fizzy stuff.” The Ebel brothers prefer to focus not only on the quality of the beer, but on helping people realize that they’re getting a family owned company that is very concerned about the community.

September 18, 2010 @ Whole Story

Ineeka Tea Chicago, IL Ineeka Tea takes pride in being the only North American tea company that is vertically integrated. With upwards of 25,000 people living and working on their 12 farms, spanning 15,000 acres, they also consider themselves the largest biodynamic community in the world. Every person living and working on their farms receives free housing, medical care, electricity, utilities and mandatory education for children. This focus has created a model never really seen before in the agricultural community.

September 10, 2010 @ Whole Story

Star Valley Flowers John Zehrer and Phil Mueller Star Valley, WI One source of pride for Star Valley Flowers is that they harvest and cut fresh flowers all year– even during the cold, snowy months – without the use of a greenhouse. Star Valley reduces its carbon footprint by foregoing the use of greenhouses. Not only is their environmental impact important, so is a customer’s reaction to their flowers. They hope customers consider their flowers to be interesting, long lasting, traceable, and cared for along the way by somebody who loves flowers.

August 14, 2010 @ Whole Story

Enjoy Life Foods Schiller Park, IL In the seven years Enjoy Life has been in business, they’ve seen the need for devoted gluten-free products increase dramatically. Their products not only meet the needs of those with gluten intolerance, they go even further and are free of the eight most common allergens: wheat, dairy, tree nuts, peanuts, eggs, soy, fish and shellfish. While safety is their first priority, taste is an extremely close second. Food, no matter what types of allergies you suffer from, should still be delicious and enjoyable.

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