Animal Organizations: Animal Rescue Organizations (local) | Animal Shelters and Rescues in Asheville Area | Asheville Animal Acupuncture | Asheville Area Professional Petsitters | Dog Is Love | 4 Paws Farewell | Pet Friendly Asheville | WNC Lost Pets | WNC Nature Center
Astrologers: Benjamin Bernstein | Liz Gunn | Belinda Dunn | Ryan Kurczak & Channing Ayers (vedic)
End of Life Services: Asheville Area Alternative | Caroline Yongue | Bury Me Naturally (Carol Motely) | Green Burial Project | Green Hills Cemetery | Sea Reef Burial | WNC Green Burial
Environment: Bee City USA | Green Built Alliance | Living Roofs | NC Drought Monitor | Organic Growers School and True Nature Country Fair | Ray’s Weather Center | WNC Physicians for Social Responsibility | Also see Charities page | Green House Cleaning: Green Earth Essentials . . Pristine Clean | Tree care: Find an Arborist . . Earth Works Tree Services . . Asheville Arborists
Eyeglasses: Eyemart Express (decent prices, but you can probably get better deals online – see the listings here at Eyeglasses)
Food:
- Blog/Mags: A Spicy Perspective
- Groceries & Home Delivery: Aldi | EarthFare | Hopey & Company | Trader Joe’s | West Village Market & Deli
- Farmers Markets: Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project | Local Food and Farmers Markets | WNC Cheese Trail
- Desserts, etc.: Chocolate Fetish | Duck Donuts | French Broad Chocolates | Mimi’s Mountain Mixes | Silvermoon Chocolate | Sunshine Sammies | Van’s Chocolates | Well Bred Bakery
- Veg Cooking & Restaurants: Greenlight | Happy Cow Compassionate Eating Guide | Changing Seasons Personal Chef (closed)
- Local Plants, Herbs, Seeds: Eagle Feather Organic Farm | Reems Creek Nursery | Sow True Seeds | Useful Plants Nursery
- Schools, Events, Organizations: Appalachia School of Holistic Herbalism | American Herbalists Guild | Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine | Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine | Organic Growers School | Plant-Based Prevention of Disease | Corrina Wood | Wild Abundance
- Healthier Pet Food: Asheville Pet Supply | Weaverville Pet Pantry
- Delivery Services: Takeout Central
Health – Holistic: Blue Lotus Ayurveda | Blue Ridge Naturopath | Bochiro Health and Wellness (chiro) | Integrative Family Medicine | The Matrona | MooreLight (crystal healing) | Paradym Sound Healing | Reiki – Odilia Forlenza | White Light Radionics | Medical Intuitives: Rachel Frezza . . Teresa Eidt
Housing / Real Estate: Blue Moon Estate Sales | Compact Cottages | Janet Blake Real Estate Agent | Roomster | WNC Bridge Estate Sales | World Tree Houses
Local Publications / Radio / Voting / DMV / Parking: Asheville Citizen-Times | Asheville Watchdog | AVL Today | Blue Ridge Public Radio | Blue Ridge Outdoors | Laurel of Asheville | Mountain Xpress | NC driver’s license online renewal | 96.5 Mix | 97.7 The Brew | 98.1 The River | 105.9 The Mountain | Find your NC Senate and House reps | Voter Tools | Voter Guide | WLOS TV
Preppers: Carolina Readiness Supply | Preppercamp | Mountain Xpress article
Renaissance / Celtic / Faerie / Native American Faires & Festivals closest to Asheville: Asheville, NC (February) | Chapel Hill, NC (April) | Grandfather Mountain (Linville), NC (July) | Huntersville, NC (Oct-Nov) | Faerie Faire Listings | The Ren List | National Storytelling Festival, Jonesborough, TN (Oct) | PowWows: PowWow Calendar . . PowWow Calendar
Senior Discounts: AVL Today Senior Discounts
Spiritual / Metaphysical / Celtic / Earth-Based Events & Groups: Asheville Community Yoga | Asheville Salt Cave | Body-Mind-Spirit Directory Asheville | Churchfinder | EarthHaven Ecovillage | Earth School | Inchanted Journeys | LEAF Global Arts | The Matrona | Mountain Light Sanctuary | Mountain Xpress Spirituality | Otto Labyrinth Park | Prama Institute | Rites of Passage Council | Unity of the Blue Ridge | UR Light Center | Vesica | Weaverville Yoga Studio | Wild Goose Festival | Wise Earth School of Ayurveda
WNC / Asheville Info & Attractions: Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce | Asheville Bed & Breakfast Association | Asheville.com | Asheville Grit | Asheville Live Cam | AshVegas | AVL Today | Biltmore Estate | Black Mountain | Brevard | Cherokee | Dollywood | Explore Asheville | Folkmoot USA | Great Smoky Mountains National Park | Greek Festival | Grove Arcade | Hendersonville | Library (Buncombe County) | Maggie Valley | MAIN Community Network | NC Mountain State Fair | Orchard at Altapass | Romantic Asheville | Visit Weaverville | Waynesville | Weaverville | Weaverville Art in Autumn Arts & Crafts Festival | Weaverville Art Safari