Proud to be a Fair Food Member

Monday, 10 June 2013 12:14

Here at Kimberton Whole Foods when we say we aim to build strong cooperative ties within our larger community we mean it!  That’s why we’re members of the Fair Food Philly movement.   Fair Food’s mission strongly aligns with our own: “[Fair Food is] dedicated to bringing locally grown food to the marketplace and to promoting a humane, sustainable agriculture system for the Greater Philadelphia region.”

Fair Food was founded by local entrepreneur Judy Wicks in 2001.  While working at her restaurant, The White Dog Café, she realized that she could further help her local economy by spreading the local purchasing model her restaurant followed to other chefs in the area.  Together with Ann Karlen, current director of Fair Food, she began connecting local farmers with local chefs, while continually building a network of sustainability.  Today the organization consists of a broad range of buyers and producers, bringing locally grown and raised food to institutions across Greater Philadelphia.

Every year Fair Food works with Grid Magazine to release a Local Food Guide.  This year marks its 10^th anniversary!  This guide provides a cohesive list of Farmers’ Markets, CSAs, Restaurants, Retailers, Artisans, and more. 

Image courtesy of Fair Food

Check it out on page 17 of the July edition here:  http://www.gridphilly.com/magazine/.

Or pick up a free copy at any of our Kimberton Whole Foods locations today!

Book Signing & Talk with Lisa Montgomery

Friday, 07 June 2013 00:00

Book Signing & Talk with

Local Author Lisa Montgomery

at Kimberton Whole Foods (2140 Kimberton Rd, Phoenixville, PA)

Friday, June 21, 2013

3:30-4:30 PM Book Signing in the Store

5:00-6:00 PM in Upstairs Community Room, followed by Additional Book Signing

Lisa strives to live a healthy lifestyle and helps to educate people through her monthly raw potlucks, workshops and annual wellness expos. Lisa is the author of "Raw Inspiration”, “Living Dynamically With Raw Foods”, "Raw Garden”, "Liquid Raw" and "Raw Potluck".  Her newest book, “Raw Challenge”, is a book that will inspire and teach you how to embrace a raw, vegetarian diet... in just 30 days! It is filled with tips on how to improve your health, lose weight, and transition to the raw diet. This book also has a huge variety of recipes to try, as well as inspirational words and testimonies to inspire you and keep you on track!

Lisa Montgomery graduated with a degree in Business from Goldey Beacom College in 1977. She developed a passion for health and wellness when she discovered she had food allergies and Candida in the 1980’s. As a result of her passion and quest for knowledge today she is a certified Holistic Health Care Practitioner, certified by the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, New York, NY. Lisa graduated from the Living Light Culinary Institute as an Associate/Chef Instructor, Ft. Bragg, CA and received a Raw Chef Mastery Certification from Raw Chef Dan, Quintessence, New York.

To find more information about Lisa visit:  http://www.livingdynamically.com/

Local Author Judy Wicks Coming to KWF

Tuesday, 28 May 2013 09:29

Book Signing & Talk with

Local Author Judy Wicks

Friday, May 31, Kimberton Store

3-4pm Book Signing in the Store

4:30-5:30 Talk in Upstairs Community Room,

Followed by Additional Booksigning

Judy Wicks is an entrepreneur, author, and public speaker working to build a more compassionate, environmentally sustainable and locally based economy. She is author of Good Morning, Beautiful Business: the Unexpected Journey of an Activist Entrepreneur and Local Economy Pioneer, published in March, 2013.

Bio:  In 1983, Judy founded Philadelphia’s landmark White Dog Café, known for environmental stewardship, community engagement, and leadership in the local food movement. Judy also founded the Black Cat, a retail store that featured locally made and fair trade gifts for twenty years. In 1970, Judy cofounded the Free People’s Store, now well known as Urban Outfitters.  Judy is cofounder of the nationwide Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) a network of some 30,000 local, independent businesses in North America, as well as founder of the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia and Fair Food.  Her work has earned numerous awards, including the James Beard Foundation Humanitarian of the Year Award, the International Association of Culinary Professionals Humanitarian Award and the Women Chefs and Restaurateurs Lifetime Achievement Award.

More information is available at www.judywicks.com

Douglassville Store Part of Massive Power Outage

Wednesday, 22 May 2013 19:13

*** Douglassville Store Update***