Wanchese Fish Company in Wanchese, NC. Photo by Dr. Garrity-Blake. September 2014 - In September, NC Growing Together released Keep It Moving: North Carolina Seafood Transportation Logistics with a Focus on East to West Routes. The report, by Dr. Barbara Garrity-Blake of the Duke University Marine Laboratory and Megan Ware of Duke University"s [...]
September 2014 - If you've ever wondered how produce moves through a distributor's warehouse, Process Walkthrough at a Regional Produce Distribution Center will answer your questions with step-by-step detail and helpful photographs. Photo by Sebastian Naskaris. Produced by 2013-2014 NC Growing Together Supply Chain Fellow Sebastian Naskaris, the document is designed to introduce produce [...]
Sydney Grice, NC State student and 2014 NCGT Summer Intern at Lowes Foods. September 2014 - North Carolina Growing Together is proud to announce the Summer 2015 Local Food Supply Chain Internship. The internship will provide opportunities for undergraduate or graduate students to gain training and professional development related to local food systems [...]
August 2014 - On Saturday August 23, Fort Bragg held its first local farmers' market. Timed to coincide with the popular monthly 5k walk/run sponsored by the Fort Bragg MWR (Morale, Welfare, and Recreation) office, the market featured four farmers selling a variety of fresh produce and value-added products. The impetus to start an on-base [...]
August 2014 - NC Growing Together has released a guide entitled Wholesale and Retail Product Specifications: Guidance and Best Practices for Fresh Produce for Small Farms and Food Hubs. The manual was developed to assist individual growers and grower-based distributors and food hubs by outlining a clear set of descriptive guidelines for quality, size, [...]
August 2014 - NCGT is sponsoring paid interns and apprentices at NCGT partner organizations, food hubs, food distributors, and retailers to support the next generation of business leaders committed to building local food systems. Two summer interns are at NCGT partner Lowes Foods. Sydney Grice, an NC State University student, worked primarily on the Carolina [...]
August 2014 - NC Growing Together, North Carolina State University, North Carolina Cooperative Extension, and Carolina Farm Stewardship Association (CFSA) will be offering workshops aimed at providing farmers with the tools to reduce food safety risks and meet market requirements. The two-part Fresh Produce Good Agricultural Practices Workshop Series combines classroom and on-farm instruction to [...]
Vince Evans of Evans Family Farm. July 2014 - NC Growing Together, in partnership with NC State University, NC Cooperative Extension, and the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association (CFSA), is providing intensive, hands-on technical support to enable small-scale farmers to achieve Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) certification of their farms. The USDA-developed GAPs certification system [...]
July 2014 - NC Growing Together partners have been working on several different fronts to identify and increase local foods purchasing on NC military bases. NCGT partner NCEast Alliance (NCEA) is a regional economic development corporation serving more than one million North Carolina residents from the edges of the Research Triangle to the Atlantic Coast. [...]
NC Growing Together and NC Cooperative Extension Work Together to Promote Local Foods <a href="http://www.ncgrowingtogether.org/stories/ncgt-and-ncce">Read the Story</a>
