Cohort 14

Black Mountain Yarn Shop

Black Mountain Yarn Shop (BMYS) is a welcoming local yarn shop focused on fiber arts and community. They offer the best natural fibers for knitting, crochet, and sewing, along with all the accessories and a knowledgeable, welcoming community.

Burris Chalmers Communications

Buris Chalmers is a communications firm amplifying nonprofit and community voices across Western North Carolina, providing social media, media relations, design, web development, and messaging, and serving as an external development partner for fundraising, grant writing, and advocacy.

Clean Mountain Escapes

Clean Mountain Escapes is a locally owned cleaning company based in Boone, NC, delivering exceptional residential and vacation rental cleaning with a focus on quality, leadership, and team development. They prioritize high standards, livable wages, and outstanding client care.

Good People Technologies LLC

Asheville-based Good People Technologies helps business and nonprofit leaders define objectives and implement systems and automations that turn goals into results.

Green Go Cleaning Co.

Green Go Cleaning Co. is an eco-conscious cleaning and product company based in Western North Carolina, delivering meticulous home and commercial cleaning services using proprietary non-toxic products rooted in quality, care, and community.

Habibi Village

Habibi Village is a gluten-free Lebanese flatbread and flour mix brand rooted in tradition and built for modern health. Growing through farmers markets and festivals, the company is now scaling into wholesale and retail to bring clean-label, culturally authentic staples to more people.

Healing Roots Design

Healing Roots Design is a 17-year-old, woman-owned sustainable permaculture-based landscape design company dedicated to connecting clients to their land and facilitating land projects that live in balance and harmony with the ecosystem and community.

Kimberly Hodges Art & Design

Kimberly Hodges is a celebrated artist and product designer known for her vibrant, nature-inspired home accents and sculptures. Trained in ceramics, painting, and wood, her unique designs burst with color and creativity, anchoring a rapidly growing wholesale business.

Light + Love Arts

Light + Love Arts is a process-art studio for Asheville families, offering classes, camps, and parties for ages 1–9. With a mission to build creative confidence, they celebrate open-ended creativity through hands-on, sensory-rich art experiences.

Polygons Tile & Hardwood

Polygons is a design-forward tile and hardwood destination serving discerning builders, designers, and homeowners across Western North Carolina, offering curated materials, design support, and industry expertise under one roof.

Sarah Hearts

Sarah Hearts creates unique notions and gifts for sewists, quilters, knitters, crocheters, and makers of all experience levels through cheerful designs and beautiful use of color. Their products bring joy to both handmade projects and the creative process.

Spice Witch

Spice Witch is an Asheville-based maker of seed oil-free chili oils and chili crisps crafted to banish boring from home kitchens. Founded by Sabrina Hill, the brand helps everyday cooks create bold, layered flavor without complicated recipes.

The High Fiber

The High Fiber is an illustration and print studio creating original handprinted textiles and illustrated paper goods celebrating nature and the joys of living simply.