Greenlife Grocery Asheville

House Made Pancetta

nicole.white — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:36:51 +0000

I love when our meat department innovates. Not content to sell just cutlets, roasts, steaks and fillets, the Team Members like to get creative with recipes for sausages and oven-ready items. It was very exciting to see house made, uncured pancetta in the case today. Pancetta is made from pork belly, and ours comes from humanely-raised and antibiotic-free hogs. We season the belly with salt, evaporated cane juice, thyme, pepper, garlic, but unlike many commercial pancettas, we don’t use nitrites in the curing process.

You can purchase the pancetta in one solid piece, or you can ask one of our butchers to cut it in quarter-inch slices. Dice the pancetta and cook it as you would thick-cut bacon. Enjoy on tangy salads, roasted vegetables or baked fish. For only $7.99lb, it’s a great deal for locally-made charcuterie.

For more ideas, check out these recipes from the Whole Foods Market website:

Carrots with Peas and Pancetta

Salmon with Red Wine Butter

Pancetta and Pesto Souffle

Nicole White
Marketing Team Leader

Summer Flourishes with Flowers

nicole.white — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 17:20:17 +0000

Bring the beauty of summer into your home & garden at the Greenlife Grocery garden and floral department!

With products from our local growers, Wildwood Herbals of Weaverville NC & Fisher Branch Farm of Marshall NC, you can keep your herb garden full and flavorful with organically grown herb plants and seasonal vegetables. While you’re there, shop our garden center for organic compost, potting soil & fertilizers. Don’t forget your feathered friends- we have bird feeders in many different styles. Then come in to our floral department and grab a fresh cut bouquet from Fisher Branch Farm. A staff favorite, they offer the most beautiful floral designs, and are all grown on the farm in Marshall!

We also have a large selection of Whole Trade Guaranteed bouquets. The Whole Trade® Guarantee ensures these “blooms with benefits” help to cultivate better working conditions and equitable wages for the farms’ workers. For each case of Whole Trade flowers purchased by Whole Foods Market, an additional percentage is paid directly to worker groups from each farm who collectively decide how to use the money. Some development projects have included education, training, scholarships, health care and housing.

Come visit our Floral and Garden Center and bring some home, and come back again!

Clare Schwartz
Floral and Garden Center Buyer

Wild South- 5% day recipients

nicole.white — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:47:32 +0000

Another successful 5% day! On April 5th, we pledged to donate 5% of that day’s sales to a non-profit chosen by our Team Members. We voted on Wild South, a great non-profit grassroots organization whose mission is to inspire people to enjoy, value and protect the wild character and natural legacy of the South. Shoppers helped raise $3,056.05 for the group! Congrats Wild South!

Bag Donation for February

nicole.white — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:33:33 +0000

Bring your own bag, save the world (or at least improve your community).

Did you know Greenlife Grocery donates 5¢ to a local non-profit for every reusable bag customer’s use at the registers? Local groups fill out an application, and our Front End Team votes on the recipient each month. We are pleased to announce that the February bag donation recipient is Full Spectrum Farms!

Full Spectrum Farms works to provide a farm community and experience for adults with autism. At the moment they provide pottery and gardening programs to individuals living with autism, and are working towards having a fully residential program that teaches essential life skills through the work and community of farm experience. We are very excited to help Full Spectrum Farms reach this goal as they develop their land and reach out to WNC families.

Learn more about Full Spectrum Farms at their website! http://www.fullspectrumfarms.org/

Nicole E White
Marketing Team Leader

Wanted: Community Partners

nicole.white — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:37:05 +0000

Hey Asheville! It’s a New Year, and time to have another 5% community giving day. For those who don’t know, this is a Whole Foods Market program where stores give 5% of one day’s gross before-tax sales to a local non-profit. The Marketing Team Leader collects applications from interested organizations and narrows down the list of contenders to 2-3 applicants. The entire store then votes to choose the recipient.

Another great avenue for local non-profits to receive support is through our bag donation program. Every time customers use a reusable bag at the registers, Greenlife puts 5¢ aside; at the end of the month, we give the money saved to a local group of our choosing.

You can find applications for both programs, plus our sponsorship request application, under “forms” in the left hand navigation, or here!

First 5% Day- Success!

nicole.white — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 21:58:34 +0000

Thank you everyone who shopped at Greenlife on Tuesday Oct 19th- you helped raise over $2800 for Muddy Sneakers!

Muddy Sneakers is a fantastic environmental education group out of Brevard that provides hands-on outdoor learning to fifth-grade kids throughout schools in WNC . We are very excited to support their efforts and give them support to take our Asheville City Schools 5th graders to the outdoors on 12 separate excursions.

We are thrilled that our first run of the 5% Community Giving Day was so successful and look forward to having many more in the future! If you are interested in applying, follow the “forms” link on the left hand menu, or click here.

Muddy Sneakers: 5% Day Recipient

nicole.white — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 18:00:02 +0000

The Greenlife Grocery team has voted on our first 5% Community Giving Recipient! On Tuesday Oct 19th we will be donating 5% of our day’s sales to Muddy Sneakers!

Muddy Sneakers is a wonderful environmental education group out of Brevard that provides hands-on outdoor learning to kids throughout schools in WNC . We are very excited to support their efforts and give them support to take our Asheville City Schools 5th graders to the outdoors 12 different days.

We collected applications, and we had some great non-profits apply to be our 5% day recipient; then our team took a vote. Thank you for everyone who applied, and thanks in advance for everyone who will shop on Oct 19th!

Live Love Leaf Art Exhibit

nicole.white — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 12:34:28 +0000

Many wonderful artists lend their work to our cafe walls, and in October we will be showcasing the photography of Alissa Whelan! Join us for an opening reception in the cafe on Tuesday, October 6th from 6-8 PM to celebrate the exhibit, LIVE LOVE LEAF, a playful 2-part photography exhibit comprised of portraits taken at the LEAF Photo Booth and documentary photographs taken during Leaf in Schools & Streets (LSS) Music and Art classes. There will be hors d’oeuvres and a craft beer & wine tasting. 50% of works sold will be donated to LSS.

Community Giving Day

nicole.white — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 12:21:30 +0000

We are now taking applications for a great program newly adopted here at Greenlife: 5% Day!

5% Days are held quarterly in each store. On this special day, a selected organization receives 5% of a store’s total pretax sales for that day!

Whole Foods Market’s Store Level Giving Program is dedicated to helping nonprofit organizations in our stores’ local communities that have limited budgets and big hearts. Our giving program supports organizations that address community issues, such as hunger relief, environmental concerns, organic and sustainable agriculture, animal rights and welfare and social services. Our focus is to support innovative groups that strive to make the world a better place. To us, a better place is one where the environment is preserved and replenished, communities are strong, health is a priority, organic farming is cherished, and where all living beings are respected.

This quarter’s giving day will be on October 19th. Deadline to be considered for this date is September 20th.

More info can be found on the 5% day application.

Fill the Grill for $20

nicole.white — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:49:39 +0000

From September 1-7, 2010 only, you can Fill the Grill for only $20. You get 8 all-natural beef burgers, 8 hamburger buns, 8 slices of Cabot cheddar cheese, 2 organic cantaloupes, and 2.5 lbs of cole slaw.