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LIFE/ Clwrbint
Thursday September 22, 2005
Healthy choices at shop
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RALEIGH—When Marian
Wall started a small shop
called Harmony Farms 31
years ago, she didn’t think
she was a pioneer, and she
didn’t know much about busi
ness.
“It started with bulk herbs
in jars,” said Wall, who began
the natural food store to help
support her own vegetarian
lifestjde. “When merchandise
would come in, we’d mark it
with a magic marker. It really
was cutting edge.”
Since her 1974 start, Wall
has watched as Wellspring
opened and became Whole
Foods. She witnessed the
beginning of the Weaver
Street Market and Earth
Fare’s recent push into the
Triangle.
Through it all, Wall has qui
etly grown and ejcpanded her
business, trying locations in
Chapel HiU and on
Hillsborough Street in
Raleigh, but finally settling in
her 3,600-square-foot store in
North Raleigh’s Creedmoor
Crossii^ at Creedmoor and
hfiUbrook roads.
It was the hours and
work—not the competition—
that led Wall to sell the busi
ness in May
‘T wanted to eiy oy the fimts
of my labor—the organic
finits, that is,” she said, jok-
in^y during a recent inter
view at the store. ‘T sold it
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‘Everybody was just kind of dumbstruck by the damage,” he
says.
Then the National Guard came and started clearing the
roads.
He’s seen the Red Cross pass by, but their distribution center
is miles fixim here, in Bay St. Louis.
“Help is around, but you’ve got to go to it,” he says. ‘Tou’ve got
to really reach for it.”
So day after day Bennett waits for an insurance agent to
show up, stewing over the idea that the U.S. government
responded fast^ to tsunami victims in Indonesia than to rural
Mississippians.
He’s also angry that so much attention is focused on displaced
victims of the New Orleans floods when the people of
PearUngton and nearby Waveland five in squafid, third-world
conditions.
Obesity and high blood
pressure at greater risk
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even though smoking clearly raises that risk, he said.
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because it was too time con
suming, and I want to have
time for my four grandkids.”
The new owners, North
Raleigh residents Steve and
Nancy Long, are trying not to
change the things that work
for the store.
In many ways, it’s still the
same as it was before Wall
sold it.
Bulk bins stock seeds and
grains and herbs. The dairy
case carries soy milk, goat
milk and yogurt. And the
aisles look a little dififerent
than a traditional food store’s.
Rather than Doritos and
CJoke, a section of wheat and
^uten-fi:^ items is down one
way, and an entire aisle dedi
cated to bottled wato*, water
filters and water treatment
systems is in the back.
But the Longs are making
changes to its appearance -
updating its technology,
brightening its look and
preparir^ it for the next 30
years of business,
It’s a future with more com
petition than ever before. The
natural and organic food sec
tor blossomed into a $10.9 bil-
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