To have your name added, contact Amber Polk at amber_polk@ncsu.edu.
Notes from the SUMMIT breakout sessions can now be found on the WIT pages linked below.
- F2F Core Team
- Game Plan
- Advisory Committee
- NC Food NETwork: a North Carolina Food System directory
- SUMMIT
- Working Issues
- Communications
- Community Gardens
- Direct Marketing
- Farm to School
- Local Government & Land Use
- New and Transitioning Farmer Support
- Processing & Food Systems Infrastructure
- Public Health & Food Access Disparities
- Retail & Institutional Markets
- Youth and Social Networking
- Formalizing the Initiative: Foundations & Baselines
- Regional Meetings
- How are we defining LOCAL?
- Regional Meetings Overview & Summary
- Triangle Region SUMMIT breakout session notes
- Mountain Region SUMMIT breakout session
- NorthEast Region SUMMIT breakout session notes
- Southeastern Region SUMMIT breakout session notes
- Triad Region SUMMIT breakout session notes
- Raleigh meeting
- Burgaw meeting
- Asheville
- Charlotte/Concord
- Winston-Salem
- Greenville
Golden Leaf Foundation
Z. Smith Reynolds
Ag Advancement Consortium
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- CEFS
- Contact Information Form
- NC Choices
- NC Food Network
- Wayne Food Initiative
Winston-Salem meeting
December 10, 5:30-8:30pm
102 in attendance
400 W Hanes Mill Rd., Winston-Salem, (336) 767-6734
Directions: http://www.sciworks.org/SciInfoDirections.html
What are the inhibitors & facilitators for a local, sustainable food system?
Inhibitors/Problems/Challenges (repeated)
Education and outreach
- Farming not seen as a viable career option
- Lack of knowledge about seasonality; people don’t cook
- Consumer lack of education and awareness
- Homogeneity of “movement”
- “Rugged individualism”
Parternships
- Territorial nitches instead of leveraging partnerships
- Emergency food services lacking fresh, healthy food
- Kids playing computer games
- Lack of communication and too much redundancy in organizations
- How do broadly dispersed growers meet broadly dispersed markets?
Farmer support
- Lack of funding sources for farmers, capital for startups
- Farmers need to make a living
- Lack of knowledge of regulations
- Land loss
- Age of farmers
- Labor pool
- Irregularity/non-constant need for labor pool
- H2A program (Farm Bureau working to improve this)
- High cost of organic certification
- Changing market: Lack of liasions between farmers and consumers
Infrastructure
- Lack of direct access between farmer and consumer
- Lack of “seed” money
- Lack of profitability with the products
- Lack of processing facilities
- Lack of cost-effective, local distributors, centralized distribution
- Grocery store structures, placements, and policies
- Volume purchasing economics
- Suburbia
- Lack of public forums to discuss food and ag
- Lack of start-up money for distribution
- Current distribution system that makes it difficult to get into small markets
- Lack of access to large and chain retailers
- Federal farm bill and support for overseas purchasing
Marketing
- Big company rules unrealistic for small business environment
- Rules and regulations that govern sale of on-farm products, and lack of knowledge of these
Opportunities/Strengths
Consumer education and outreach
- High demand for local food
- More knowledge of farmers and farming on TV
- Strong regional organizations
- Mainstream food psychology
- Slow Food
Infrastructure
- Lots of roads from rural counties to towns
- More “Whole Foods-type" stores opening
- Large hospitals
Marketing
- More restaurants sourcing locally grown foods
Technology
- Availability of websites for searching out local markets and CSAs
- Availability of food processing information
- Internet
Diverse partnerships
- Local leaders
- Large population of young people, college and health care
- Partnership with farm bureau
- Partnership with extension
- WPA plan
- Healthy food affecting health care
- 4-H
- FFA
- Tech schools
- Garden clubs
- DENR, EFP
- Faith-based communities
- Farm tours
- N.C. ag culture
Farmer/farm support
- How immigration laws were affecting labor supply and not much profitibiliity in small farm-
- Long growing season
- Two land-grant universities
- N.C. extension
- N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
- RAFI and value added grants
What are “game changer” big ideas? (These were “shout outs” during the meeting.)
Communications/social marketing -
- Greenbook instead of Facebook
- Up-to-date, usable farmers’ market website
Youth/social marketing -
- Greenhorns in North Carolina, young farmers org
Farm-to-school -
- Garden at every school
Diverse partnerships -
- Regular, local food meetings, across the state
- “Green” collar job campaign
Farms/farmers
- Voluntary Ag District: each county driving a landowner outreach and education campaign to get land into hand of people who can farm it
- Growing in unconventional growing spaces
- Farming land zoning
Solutions/ideas for moving forward (idea repeated more than once in reporting)
Expanded Markets
Selling
- EBT at farmers markets
- CSAs
- buying clubs
- prepared meals with local foods/catering, deli pick-up
Growing
- network of neighborhood gardens
Saving
- recyclable containers in work settings; hygenic food composting
Purchasing
- connections between institutions and regional processing facilities to buy processed 2nds
- growing for your school system
Support
- microlending for ag efforts
- broad network of educational gardens for children and adults
Imagining
- community-based network for distribution and marketing
- website linking producers and markets
- student activism leading the way
- themed farmers market days, cooking classes, etc.
Strong Infrastructure
Mechanics and facilities
- local, shared-use processing facilities
- regional processing plants for meat
- local delivery businesses
- regional processing plants for dairy
- allow cow-shares or raw milk sales
- enclosed, year round, city operated and owned farmers markets in all cities of certain size and up
- refrigerator rail business
Collective action
- co-ops for distribution
- farmer run organization for farmers to share ideas on marketing, growing, etc
Youth
- develop programs and entrepreneurial opportunities associated with local farems for young people
- partnerships with universities to provide internships and educational credits
Policy action
- gain support of politicians; lobby for agriculture
- address labor laws making it easier for small farmers to hire
- farmland tax incentives when bought for agricultural use (make farm size specifications smaller acerage)
- local school sourcing local food
- looking into rules and regs for farms, espec regarding direct sales
- tax incentives for local sales by farmers
- exemption so farmers can qualify for Americorp workers (create Foodcorp)
Technology
- cooperative, on-line farmers markets
- agro-tourism
- one manual (on-line) covering all regulations for farmers/marketers
Education
- current distribution should follow seasonality
- broad outreach on food preparing education efforts
Farms and Farmers
Education and training
- one manual (on-line) covering all regulations for farmers/marketers
- workshops and ed assistance on direct sales and distribution systems
- educate farmers about pros and cons of selling locally
- extension should provide classes on the hows and whys of organic gardening and farming in all counties
- education packets about sludge
- more partnership between community colleges, local gov, and cooperative extension to educate new farmers
Co-op efforts
- create regional marketing efforts to provide year-round supplies of selected crops (strawberries, broccoli, beef, etc.)
Programs
- processing and sale of processed foods made easier
- create networked, local websites so farmers can list what they have available
- network soup kitchens with farmers; gleaning programs
- landtrusts for farmland
- mentoring programs in combination with reverse morgage construct so that farms can be sold to new farmers while supporting retiring farmer
Policy
- reduce cost for certification; reduce paperwork
- economic development funds to incentivize local-foods buying
- make “local” purchasing a qualifying factor for institutions
Public relations
- encourage neighborhood foodsheds/frontyard farming
Strong and Diverse Partnerships (starred here as most in other categories already)
Programs
- community gardens: intergenerational, iunterfaith, at all schools
- address/abolish food deserts through partnering with local producers
- food waste diversion; food pick up businesses from restaurants
- pay by volume of waste disposal/san fran type required food waste collection
- composting programs at institutions
- nursing homes and assisted living-connect with folks with historical knowledge of food and farming, i.e. shelling peas makes great occupational therapy plus these folks can’t easily access healthy food from local farmers
- EBT at farmers markets
- corner store program-connect farm with convenience stores in low-wealth communities
Networking/alliances
- food councils/regular roundtable discussions
- identified places to hold these meetings/discussions
- mediums to disperse ideas from these meetings/discussions
- public land policies on vacant land for gardening
Re-thinking
- FoodCorp
- we need visionary leadership
- creative public campaign focused on communication-book reads and film festivals
- universities as marketing food system careeers
Tactics and needs for making it happen
- Can we post attendees of each meeting to facilitate networking?
- We need visionary leadership.
- More of this networking effort
Existing Projects/Current Efforts:
Grow More Farms
Danbury Farm
Michael Hylton, Stokes Ext.
Baptist Hospital Farmer’s Market
Gretchen Bayne
Yadkinville Farmer’s Market
NC COOP Extension
Farmer’s Market
WIC gives out $26,000 worth of Farmer’s Market Vouchers in Forsythe County each summer
Be Healthy Coalition of the Health Department
Downtown Farmer’s Market
Clemmons Farmer’s Market
Ronnie’s Country Store
California Fresh
Human Services Alliance will take donated produce
Slow Foods
Sander’s Ridge CSA
Cindy Conti
Community Garden
Newly forming interfaith, Rabbi Josh Brown,
Temple Emanuel 336-722-6640
Old Salem Gardens
King Farmer’s Market
Harvey Moser, 983-9636
Piedmont Triad Farmer’s Market
Children’s Home Farmer’s Market
Thomasville Farmer’s Market
Joan Wright
Deep Roots in Greensboro
(Food buying club)
Triad Buying Co-Op
Matt Meyers, 758-1822
Thomasville 11-Acre Market
Voluntary Ag District in Forsyth
Novant Farmer’s Market
Co-Op Extension has a list of community gardens
Lexington Farmer’s Market
Shire Farm Organics in Yadkinville
Nathan Pitts, CSA
Eastern Carolina Organics (Distributor)
Lewisville Farmer’s Market
Gary Owen 945-5964
Milk & Honey Farm (CSA)
Eric Brown
Agritourism
UDO Amendment in Forsyth County
Mt. Airy Farmer’s Market
Shrimp Connection
4 county efforts through Cooperative Extension to market local farms
Contact: Tim Hambrick, Forsyth CFS
Bethabara Community Gardens
Need single source of markets, CSA, farmers
Samaritan Ministry
Crisis Control Ministry
The big obstacle for health and nutrition
-Cooperative Extension
-slow food movement
-Stokes Core stokescore@gmail.com
-local farmer’s markets
-local farmer’s coops
Bethabara Park Community Garden
Sander’s Family Organics
The Land Trust of NC
Preservation of Farm and wet lands
Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservation
Farmland Preservation Program
William Hamilton
Farmland Values Project (UNCA)
Leah Matthews
UNCA Economy Department
Blue Ridge Food Ventures-value added processing facility in Enta
Contact: Irang Lou Surgi, 828-348-0428
Actively seeking grants and other support for Farm Land Preservation in an effort to put as a mentor/examples for other farmers in all counties to promote the same practices on the farmland (having some difficulty setting information for all counties. Cindy@Sandersridge.com
Currently in discussion with co-op (established 25 years) for the purpose of growing practice in bulk to replace the need for procuring it outside of a local farming network
Gallitter Farm
24 acres organic tool
8 acres veg
10 in cover crop seed
Rest in rotation
Michael (Gallitter Fam ll)
336-940-6784
CSA
Local Market in County
We, Sander Ridge Organic Farm are engaged in a 75+ member (SA in the Winston/Mount Airy area providing weekly deliveries of fresh USDA certified produce. We are also trying to solicite and mentor other growers in the Yadkin County area in an effort to expand and produce more for local population via CSD and retail markets. We know if they can grow it we can sell it. Cindy@sandersridge.com
Davie County is starting a farmland preservation district in 2009
Community Partner Program
Deep Roots Market, Greensboro
(Discount program for customer to enhance and support other local businesses including farmer, restaurants, etc;
Contact: Robert Lopp
Ag Ext Agent-Davidson County
Funding ($25,000) sought and granted by Co. Commissioners to pursue a county wide farmland preservation plan. NC Dept of Ag Grant applied for to hire expert to write plan.
Community Gardening Partners
Lucy Bradley, NCSU
919-519-2601
Contact: Robert Lopp
Ag Ext Agent
Voluntary Agricultural District Ordinance adopted in Davidson County (VAD)
VAD’s established and mapped
Farms & Farmers
Land Trust For Central NC
Voluntary AG Districts
Community Gardens in Durham
All I know is in my area there are private gardens which support (or help to) the food needs of one family. I grow my own food 3 seasons of the year, partially in winter. I share my produce with friends and family, also barter. There are specialty farms, i.e. strawberries/berries/(MABLES) in my area. There is a local Farmer’s Market in Danbury
Farmer education package about risks of using sewage sludge
Campaign opposes use of biosludge as fertilizer on farmlands.
NC Agritourism Networking Association
Martha Glass
Cathy Lewis
Support for farmers/vineyard owners of agri-tourism (rural tourism efforts
N C Dept Agriculture/Marketing/Agritourism
Contractors and local governments are consuming farmland in Forsyth County at an alarming rate. 4 Farms for industry and schools. There needs to be a policy in place to use land that is no t usable for farming or land reclaimed from previous same use.
Growers Co-Op in Stokes County
Guildord County
Open Space Program
Protected Dairy Farm Land
Farm Preservation
Can have farm registered as a farm
Small acreage movement
Amy Lyon Albertson
Coon Rock Farm, Hillsborough NC, Richard Holcomb
Coonrockfarm.com
Farmer’s Markets in Stokes County
King Danbury
CSA-Hart Rich Farm, Danbury, NC
ANA Association (Agritourism)
Heritage Farm
Preservation Program
RAFI
Blue Ridge Rural Land Trust
Joe Potts, 336-359-2909
Carolina Farm Stewardship Association
Piedmont Land Conservancy
Good Leaf Program
Reedy Fork Dairy is able to stay in business thanks to Organic Valley Co-Op
Growing # of education schools for farming
Ex: att: Warren Wilson
Small Bakery Organic
Ex: Simple Kneads
Worked with small dairy to sell at local Farmer’s Market
Ex: Homeland Creamery
Guilford County open space committee
Jack Jesorek, 272-6664
Local Farms going organic
EX: Forest Farms
Knowledge transfer – old farmers to young
Ex: networks/neighbors
Small Farmer’s Workshop
4-h Groups
Forsyth County Agriculture Office
Farmland Preservation Trust
Voluntary Ag. District
Forsyth – Mike Bowman 336-705-2850
Hartman Processing Walnut Core
Either state or TA type facility
Partnerships
Ag in the classroom
Farm Bureau
Karen McKnight
Expanded
Buffalo Creek Farm
Robin Blakely
Germantown
Sheep/Goats
Swaims Meats
State inspected
High Point
Partnerships
New Mt. Vernon Ch Methodist
Utilizes local farmers hamburger in spay supper as fund raiser
Woolsey Farm
Pfafftown
Community Gardens
Bethabra
West Salem
VAD
Landowner Outreach
Farmland Preservation
(not funded at this time)
Yanceyville Curb Farmer’s Market
GSO
App State
Agroecology Program
Strong & Diverse
Livestock competitors, judging and public speaking
Charlotte Clark cclark@duke.edu
I’m teaching an undergraduate class at Duke next semester on Food/Energy. One student project will be to consider how colleges and universities in general and Duke in particular, can support development of a sustainable local food economy
Duke’s Jewish Community is actively looking on a community garden in conjunction with the Smart House
Charlotte Clark cclark@duke.edu
Diverse Partnerships
Green, Brown and Black
Coalition – Durham
Charlie Heddington Project in Greensboro, goes into schools and helps the children start gardens and then they maintain them.
NC Farmer’s Nutritional Program
(partner with WIC to senior citizens)
Agramark Food Service is purchasing natural beef from Grayson Nutritional Foods-selling on Wake Forest University
Farmer’s Markets vouchers to students for fruits and vegetables Partnership
Coop ext/school system/farmer’s markets
Deep Roots Coop
CSA’s
Slow Food Triad
4-H Mini Garden Programs, Surry County
Learning to grow and market vegetables
Local Farmer’s Market has more venues available
Community Gardening
Reynolds Gardens of WFU
Children’s Garden for School Group tours
School Gardens
EX: Greensboro Montessori
Partnership-Children’s Home, Winston Salem and NW Food Bank
Growing Diversity in Population
Local Restaurants use market local produce
Direct markets – Sandy Ridge Farmer’s Market, Gro Curb Market
Community Gardens
Urban Ministries Food Bank, GBO
Bethabara Community Garden
Earth Day – Winston Salem
Piedmont Environmental Alliance
Large fair for environmental and social resources
Beekeeping
Forsyth County
Beekeepers Association
Bee School
Piedmont Environment Alliance
PSA
Slow Food Triad
Leader, Margaret Norfleet
Forsyth Tech
Educational garden
Healing garden
Goat Lady Dairy
-tours
-education
-Farm to Table Restaurant
Showing the movie “The Future of Food” locally to educate the public about organic food
Woosley Farm Tours for school groups
Kids have no clue where kids good food comes from
Greensboro Montoressi School Garden
Wee Garden Coop Extension
Storbs County
Sweet Potato
Growers, Food Retailers and Forsyth Tech
Community Garden at Children’s School
Forsyth Tech-culinary effort
Community Gardens in Guilford
Support for farm labors
Group that protects/fights for Latin American Farm under Fair pay/health care. See gsohive.org
Come To The Table Faith Group
Cooperative Extension
Master Gardeners
Expand Market
Rockingham County Farmer’s Market
21st Century Market
Food Stamps at market
Downtown Farmer’s Market
Contact?
In season gardens
Grayson Natural Foods includes VA & NC
Charlotte Hanes 336-251-4135
Baldwin Farms is selling beef to Whole Foods
Has a web page
King/Danbury Farmer’s Market
Food Salvage: Food not Bombs in GSO (takes food otherwise dumpster bound to homeless)
Surry County Farmer’s Markets
Restaurant Row-how can local restaurants brand W-S as local, healthier food?
Idea: Farm Reality TV Show
“Know Your Farms” Charlotte, NC
Christy Shi
A LA cart local foods
Families and restaurants
Saurn Pride
Stokes Purple
Sweet Potato
Marketing to Whole Foods Market
Tony McGee
Stolees CORE
Local foods continuing education through Forsyth Tech CC
Tony McGee
Salisbury Farmer’s Market
Downtown Salisbury, Inc
Create list of top employers
Facilitate company based CSA’s at each company
Basically, facilitate/fund start-up of RTI model across the state
Winston-Salem
What happens to mainstream food distributors like Vernon? When can they help?
Winston-Salem Whole Foods
Lowes Foods (Headquarters)
Fresh Market
Resource Outlet existing
Downtown Farmer’s Market
(Seasonal)
Limited. Local
Ashboro F.M.
220 Market owned by growers
Small Restaurants in Greensboro, NC who promotes local food.
The Farmer’s Daughter
Forsyth County
Instructions to which to increase sales
WSSU
Baptist Hospital
Forsyth
County Jail
WFU
I’ve heard WFU is contracting for some local/grass-fed beef
Downtown area curb market has big following
Great Curb Market
Downtown Greensboro
Growing # of meat producers each week
It’s Great!
Farm to School
Forsyth County Investigating Potential
Round Rock CSA
Children’s Home of Winston Salem
Farmer’s Market
Forsyth Tech. Community College
Horticulture Program
CES, Guilford County Government, Open Space
Sandy Ridge Farmer’s Market
Greensboro Curb Market
Thunder Horse Sustainable Agr.
Greensboro City Sustainability Council
“Come to the Table” Community Garden Alamace
Triad Buying Co-Op
TBCOOP.org
Baptist Hospital
Farmer’s Market
Be healthy – Winston Salem/Forsyth County-underserved populations
Greensboro is rethinking restrictions on chickens, etc in backyards
Farmer’s Market in Statesville, King, Thomasville
Greensboro Curbside/Downtown Markets
Piedmont/Triad Farmer’s Market
Farmer’s Market
Clemmons YMCA
Farmer’s Market, Lewisville
Food Coop for buying local food in the triad
Winston Salem Downtown Farmer’s Market
Farmer’s Market Dixie Classic Fair
Farmer’s Market
WSFC
Dixie Classic Fair
Eastern Garden Organics
Pittsboro, NC
Farmer’s Market Downtown Winston Salem Tues and Thurs April to October
Shore Farms Organic, Yadkinville, NC
Nathan Pitts
-Clemmons Market
=Downtown Winston Salem
-6th & Vine Restaurant
-CSA
Panera Bread
2 day old bread to Samatarian Soup Kitchen
Whole Foods Market
Jarrett Oliver – 722-9233
Sells local products to consumers as long as they meet our quality standards, (ie.meat, produce, floral, garden, bakery, etc)
Store tours-educating groups on eating healthy, unadulterated foods
Food to shelters, food banks that’s not suitable for sale to the public
Minglewood Farms
Margie
-CSA
-shop on Reynoldo Road
Milk and Honey
Farm CSA
Eric Brown, Yadkinville
Food Bank grows food at the Children’s Home on Reynold Road
Community Gardens at Bethubra
“oldest community garden in the country”
Methodist Children’s Home kids grow a garden and sells once a week from a truck on Reynold Rd.
Deep Roots Market in Greensboro buys local produce
2 Farmer’s Markets in Greensboro
Farmer’s Markets in Forsyth County
Piedmont Triad Farmer’s Market
Greensboro Curb Farmer’s Market
Lexington Farmer’s Market
Thomasville Farmer’s Market
Salisbury Farmer’s Market
Dixie Classis Farmer’s Market
County Farmer’s Market – fairgrounds
Downtown market
Agricultural Zone crossing over with production and sale
Mixed use zoning boards
CSA in Winston Salem
? Who
? Where
Direct Markets
Chatham County Organic Growers
2 markets
Coops – new company
Shors Coor in Burlington
HC’s Regional Farmer’s Market
Sayarahaw Summer Market and Music – Saturdays
Farmer’s Markets
A7 T University
a. GSO Curb Market
b. Deep Roots Coop
c. Gul County Coop Extension offers personal plots 4 x 50
d. g-Surburban Ministry
Buy Heywood Project
-marketing haywood grown produce, vegetable, fruits, herbs, mushrooms
Brian & Lusa Sullivan
George Trey
ASAP’s Local Food
Marketing Initiative
Charlie Jackson
Peter Marks
Establish a market spot in downtown Winston Salem at Krankies Coffee shop to allow others to have the opportunity to purchase our organic produce
Madison Family Farms
Aubrey Raper
David Kendall
Farmington Farmers Market on Farmington Road near 801 in Davie County
Winston Salem has a Farmer’s Market
Town of Harmony in Irdell County has started a Farmer’s Market in 2008 near Highway 21 and highway 901
Lexington Farmer’s Market
-operated at fairgrounds
-livestock sold on Wednesday
-not sure if produce is sold
Whole Foods-because they located in Winston Salem
Have brought awareness to many people about healthy food, find a wide cross-section of folks shopping there
School Yard Gardens
Arts Based Elementary Winston Salem
Cooperative Extension Office
Carolina Farm Stewardship Association
Triad Buying Coop
Starting a market at Krankies
Contact: Mitchehbritt@gmail.com
6th and Cherry Farmer’s Market, Winston Salem
Fairground Market, Winston Salem
Agrotourism
B & B’s:
-Hodgin Valley Farm, Pleasant Garden
Farm Dinners:
-Goat Ludy Dairy, Julian
-Celebrity Dairy, Siles City
The Farmer’s Daughter
Local from scratch lunch delivery program serving local schools and students
Organiclunchkids.com
Bread Riot. Salisbury
local coop
Strong Infrastructure
None we are aware of
Community Shared use kitchens
(Ashe Co., Buncombe Co,)
Farm to School
Rockingham Community Kitchen
Rockinghamkitchen.org
Local Food at Deep Roots Market
Eastern Carolina Organics
Homeland Creamery
Many farmers and independent vendors
Local food processing, canning or value added facility
Food packing consolidation facility
May’s Meats in Taylorsville runs a truck distributing boxed meat in Piedmont area
Jimmy Mays 323-632-2034
Print Works Bistro and Proximity Hotel
Exec Chef, Bart Ortiz
Grass fed beef
Local parking and processing
Surry County
Eastern Carolina
Organics
Sandy (Produce Distributors)
219-824-5238
Food Buying Club in Winston Salem
Beta Verde
Farm to Table
Margaret at Salem Neff
Edible Piedmont
-quarterly magazine on local food in the area
-1st issue in Fall 2008
Supplement Gurerilla Dinners
Edible Piedmont Magazine
-highlights locally grown foods and farmers
Food Nat Bombs
Gsohive.org
Serves 3 x week
Discarded food
Everyone cooks, everyone eats
Greensboro Montessori’s Permaculture Garden
Wee Gardeners Program
NC Cooperative Extension Greensboro
CSA Dropoffs at Deep Roots Market
Seasonal basis
Snow Creek Family Organics
See slowfoodpiedmont.org
To get in touch with farmer
Guilford College is planning on 8 acre community garden
Gabriela Spang
NCA & T is building a community/food garden on 25 acres. They are looking to work with city of 650 and make more money. Contact Michael Roberts at A&T
Greensboro Curb Market has CSA
Pick up points
e.g. Handance Farms, Nimby Gardens
See slowfoodpiedmont.org
WEC Programs will be adding fruit and vegetable vouchers to participant’s packets
Neese’s Sausage Co?
Mitchells’s Meat Processing
Walnut Cove
CSA’S
High Country Food Kitchen-Ashe County is it closing now?
Farm Outreach Program
Blue Ridge Food Ventures
Guidance for farmers toward adding value to their produce by processing
Leading Green?
Small business incubator system has operated for several years in Greensboro
Traceability to the farm – a purposeful system that is size-neutral and cost effective (not putting small local farms out of business due to expenses)
More support for food entrepreneurs
Small distributors Ex: Eco Cornucopia Cheese
Strong Local Co-Ops
Ex: Deep Roots Weaver Street (Chapel Hill)
Comprehensive guidance for growers addressing cool and fresh produce safety issue for direct/wholesale
Supply chain issues from on-farm to consumers
(trucking, post harvest conditions, coolery, etc)
Farmland Protection Plans
NCDA Dewitt Hardee
Food Waste Composting Companies
(like Dean Brooks)
At Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment, the graduate students have developed the “farmland” program. Graduate students volunteer on a farm for the day, and the farmer feeds them lunch during which wonderful conversation and education happens.
Charlotte Clark cclark@duke.edu
Dib Breedlove – Dredell County Extension Service, Statesville, NC
Jason Walser, Land Trust in Salisbury
Madge Eggena, the Evening Farmers Market Manager, Statesville, NC
Dusty Rhodes, Rotary Farmers, Statesville Market Manager
John Bullard- Parks & Recreation, Statesville, NC
Joanne Market Downtown,Hickory Farmers Market Manager
Atwood Cook specializes at the Employment Service to find helpers for farmers
Toxic Free NC, Schools – not sure but they are pushing pesticide free schools, etc
Direct Markets
Local Farmer’s Markets
Food Co-Ops
Belhabra Park Community Garden
Support for Farm Labors
Student Action with Farm workers
Forsyth Farmlands Preservation
Voluntary Ag District in Davidson County
Davidson CES 336-242-2080
Slow Food of the Tried is active in Greensboro
Local Farmer’s Markets Forsyth and Guilford County
O’Henry Motel in Greensboro has a local food restaurant only in season.
Community College
Small Business Centers
Wake Forest
Occupational Health Hazards for farm workers
Value added processing facilities or kitchen incubators
Blue Ridge Food Ventures
Stecoah Valley Food Center
Creative Food Ventures
Our winery and restaurant (opening Spring 2009) will feature low input grape production and serve in season vegetable, herbs, flowers, fruit and meat from local producers including organic farm
We are looking for more growers
Garden Ridge Farm is a dealer (local) for OMRI and NOP approved inputs and supplements 336-677-1700
Eastern Organics offer brokering statewide to OG farmers
Many colleges and universities have signed the American College and University President’s Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) which commits the institution to climate neutrally and requires a plan of how to get there.
Charlotte Clark
AASHE (Assoc for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education) is beta-testing a STARS rating (not ranking) system by which colleges and universities could strive to become “sustainable”. I don’t know what food components are involved but would be good to know.
Charlotte Clark
Bless the Children is a partnership along the lines I’d like to start. It is in Winston Salem (Forsyth) and they work with inner city kids to get them involved in gardening. A friend and I have hosted several kids’ camps with focus on gardening, nature, arts, music and cooking.
A group of Duke students have developed a house called “Living off the Grid” which has many food components, I am the faculty rep.
Charlotte Clark
I have organized a good bit of information about farms, gardens and sustainability-themed dorms around the country. I hope Duke will add another sustainability themed dorm with a garden
Charlotte Clark
GSO Urban Ministry is interested in building sustainable community
Livestock exhibitors
4-H
Amy Thomas
336-593-8179
4-H Victory Garden Project
Gardens of 4-H’ers Homes
Communities to promote veggie production
Liz Driscoll 919-513-7346 lizdriscoll@ncsu.edu
Strawberries in Schools
Project to grow strawberries in school gardens connect to science and math
Food Relocalization System
ASU-Sustainable Development Program
Charles H. Smith, Director
Symposium on March 26, 2009
NC Youth & School Garden Network
Buddy partnership around organizations working with youth gardening, coming together to promote, provide support to educators, etc.
Liz Driscoll 919-513-7376 liz_driscoll@ncsu.edu
I don’t know the contact source but in Greensboro there was a bond item on the November ballot item to repair old abandoned war memorial stadium. It didn’t pass but one suggestion was to expand the Yanceyville Street Farmer’s Market to that location.
Guilford County Coop Extension SVC has programs for organic gardening
NCA & T SU has demo farm
Beef Check off
Surry County 4-H offers the small garden program
10 x 10 gardens
WIC will be adding vouchers for fruits and vegetables to the food packages
Local stores donate produce to Homeless Shelters
Currently Extension PA working to improve consumer’s knowledge of use of their foods.
Guerilla Dining
Supper Club
Food Events, Outreach
Supplements, blogspot.co,
Slow Food
Piedmont Triad
Community Gardens
A&T working with city of Greensboro to use vacant land for community gardens
Glenwood Community Garden
The Children’s Home (Winston Salem) has 200 acres adjacent to downtown is growing food for its residential kids and for sale. Also volunteers grow vegetables which are given to the Food Bank.
Compost Exchange.org
-compost education
-working with city council
-workshops
Winston Salem/Forsyth County Schools Wellness Policy
District took this seriously though school officials don’t believe local food is at all realistic
Contact Barbara Lawrence 336-784-5128
In Planning Stage
Grocery Coops in NC
Working to increase “local” sales
Deep Roots
Chatham Marketplace
Winston Salem Buying Club
Company Markets
ASAP
-Marketing
-Business planning
Sustainable Ag. Curriculum for high schools
Sustainable Ag. Classes in NC high schools
PEA
Danbury Farm
Michael Hylton, Stokes Ext.
Baptist Hospital Farmer’s Market
Gretchen Bayne
Yadkinville Farmer’s Market
NC COOP Extension
Farmer’s Market
WIC gives out $26,000 worth of Farmer’s Market Vouchers in Forsythe County each summer
Be Healthy Coalition of the Health Department
Downtown Farmer’s Market
Clemmons Farmer’s Market
Ronnie’s Country Store
California Fresh
Human Services Alliance will take donated produce
Slow Foods
Sander’s Ridge CSA
Cindy Conti
Community Garden
Newly forming interfaith, Rabbi Josh Brown,
Temple Emanuel 336-722-6640
Old Salem Gardens
King Farmer’s Market
Harvey Moser, 983-9636
Piedmont Triad Farmer’s Market
Children’s Home Farmer’s Market
Thomasville Farmer’s Market
Joan Wright
Deep Roots in Greensboro
(Food buying club)
Triad Buying Co-Op
Matt Meyers, 758-1822
Thomasville 11-Acre Market
Voluntary Ag District in Forsyth
Novant Farmer’s Market
Co-Op Extension has a list of community gardens
Lexington Farmer’s Market
Shire Farm Organics in Yadkinville
Nathan Pitts, CSA
Eastern Carolina Organics (Distributor)
Lewisville Farmer’s Market
Gary Owen 945-5964
Milk & Honey Farm (CSA)
Eric Brown
Agritourism
UDO Amendment in Forsyth County
Mt. Airy Farmer’s Market
Shrimp Connection
4 county efforts through Cooperative Extension to market local farms
Contact: Tim Hambrick, Forsyth CFS
Bethabara Community Gardens
Samaritan Ministry
Crisis Control Ministry