Rising Together: Advancing Food & Beverage Product Businesses in WNC
Inform, define, and create new strategies to support food and beverage manufacturing in Western North Carolina.
Oct 30, 2025, 10am-4:30pm
Highland Brewing | 12 Old Charlotte Highway Asheville, NC
About the Event
Rising Together is a day-long in-person gathering and opportunity to hear success stories, share barriers to success, and collaboratively define new resources.
This event will serve as a space to collectively discuss the challenges and opportunities to starting, scaling, and stabilizing food and beverage product businesses across the region. Expect:
- Insightful discussions
- Networking opportunities
- Collaborative ideation sessions
- And more!
Mechanism,MountainBizWorks, Blue Ridge Food Ventures, and Asheville Area Food Guild are bringing together business owners and employees, growers and retailers, capital providers, and economic and community development organizations, from across Western North Carolina.
Agenda
This event is open to all!
Please register through Eventbrite
About the Host
Mechanism
Mechanism cultivates production ecosystems that safeguard the environment, steward shared resources, secure economic stability, and empower workers with safety, dignity, and agency. We partner with communities to transform manufacturing away from extractive models that drive inequality and depletion. In doing so, we lay the foundation for resilient places where people and production sustain each other.
Andrew Dahlgren - Place Program Director
andrew@mechanism.community