BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) – A grocery store, Fountain Heights Farms – We All Eat Market, opened Saturday in Birmingham’s Fountain Heights neighborhood. The founders said it is the first grocery store there in nearly 70 years.
Co-founder Christopher Gooden said neighbors have been asking when the doors would open since the cooperative broke ground. Some people who used to live in Fountain Heights have even come back to shop, he said.
The market sells fresh produce, eggs, meat, herbs, spices, teas, canned and dry goods, and bulk foods. Some of the produce is grown on cooperative lots in the neighborhood.
How the market started
Gooden and his wife Dominique started Fountain Heights Farms Cooperative after moving to the neighborhood around 2016. They began by growing produce on vacant lots, which is when Gooden said he saw the need for a grocery store…