On November 7, 2026, We All Eat Market, the first grocery store in the Birmingham Fountain Heights neighborhood in 70+ years, opened in front of a packed crowd of residents, community leaders and well-wishers.
During her speech, in sight of the fully stocked grocery store with fresh fruits and vegetables Jefferson County Commissioner Sheila Tyson enthusiastically declared:
“This is our version of Whole Foods!”
Amen Birmingham.
New grocery store built by the community
Birmingham’s newest grocery store was not built by some anonymous grocers from out-of-state, but literally from “hands in the dirt.”
The brainchild of Fountain Heights Farms Cooperative (FHFC) co-founders and wife and husband, M. Dominique Villanueva and Christopher Gooden, the new grocery store supplies fruits and vegetables from 16 local Fountain Heights farm plots. The goal of the group is to have 119 plots by 2030…