Client news:
OFTB is honored to represent Southside Community Farm, which has been a model for Black food sovereignty in Asheville and WNC since 2014. Located in Asheville’s Southside neighborhood, SCF is a Black-led nonprofit organization that focuses on growing food sovereignty, celebrating our unique and diverse cultural foodways, and building a resilient future together.
“Our mission is not only to feed people, but to co-create a web of food sovereignty in which community members have tangible power over their local food system. As part of a neighborhood struggling under food apartheid, we focus not only on welcoming our community into the farm space but on ‘bringing the garden out of the garden,’ in the words of our elder and co-founder Roy Harris.”
In 2023 alone, SCF harvested over 2,000lbs of fresh food, 75% of which was donated to the community. They host two free food fridges, a BIPOC farmers market, BIPOC garden days, youth programming, free food boxes delivered to neighbors, and more.
One For The Books (OFTB) will provide the organization with communications and media advising.
October brought plenty to celebrate across Asheville and Western North Carolina, from major national recognition to fall travel features, new collaborations and a few memorable reasons to gather around the table.
For the second year in a row, Soprana Rooftop Cucina has earned a place in the MICHELIN Guide American South.
Fonta Flora Brewery and Jettie Rae’s Oyster House are bringing back The Pearl, their collaborative oyster pilsner, for a limited release beginning the week of October 19.
Executive Chef Jon Cropf has joined the downtown Asheville restaurant, bringing nearly three decades of hospitality experience and more than 12 years as an executive chef to Soprana’s kitchen.
The Majestic has teamed up with Asheville-born spice company Spicewalla on a custom Chinese Five Spice blend, available now.
September was a good month for stories that made Asheville feel like a place to experience, not just a place to visit. Across the coverage, there was a real sense of the region's character: its quieter corners, its food and drink, its mountain communities, and the people who keep making this place interesting. Our clients were woven throughout those stories, giving us plenty to celebrate as we head into fall.
A nine year single malt from one of the distillery's first barrels, released September 4 with a Labor Day weekend celebration in Black Mountain.
Huge congratulations to the six OFTB clients recognized in this year's Best of WNC Awards!
August brought ten years of The Montford, national travel coverage for Blowing Rock and Asheville's neighborhoods, and a G20 summit in our backyard.
Jenn Rice's AFAR guide breaks Asheville down neighborhood by neighborhood, featuring Soprana, Embassy Suites, Gan Shan, and Firelight at Shope Creek.
Over the course of the month, our clients appeared everywhere from Architectural Digest to Tasting Table, celebrated major milestones, welcomed new culinary talent, opened one of Asheville's most anticipated restaurants, and earned recognition on one of the country's established live fire cooking stages.
June took us from the James Beard Awards in Chicago to media coverage spanning food, travel, music, hospitality, and spirits, with clients appearing everywhere from Food & Wine and Southern Living to Our State, VinePair, and Mountain Xpress.
Located in Blowing Rock and tucked into a sunny courtyard in the heart of town, Cafe Violette feels like the kind of place you'd expect to stumble across in a small European town and then spend the next six months telling your friends about.
Recently named one of the hottest new steakhouses in the country by Eater, Bev’s brings a much anticipated approachable fine dining experience to downtown Black Mountain, just 20 minutes from Asheville.
