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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

Cindy@Sandersridge.com

dayle@sandersridge.com

 

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

Dayle@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

Lucy_bradley@ncsu.edu

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

www.woosleyfarm.com

 

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

Brenda_sutton@ncsu.edu

 

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

mnneff@gmail.com

 

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

Brenda_sutton@ncsu.edu

 

 

Downtown Farmer’s Market

Contact?

 

In season gardens

 

Grayson Natural Foods includes VA & NC

www.graysonnatural.com

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

WAMcGee@triad.rr.com

 

Stolees CORE

Local foods continuing education through Forsyth Tech CC

Tony McGee

WMMCGee@triad.rr.com

 

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

dayle@sandersridge.com

cindy@sandersridge.com

 

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

www.breadriot.org

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

Brenda_Sutton@nscu.edu

 

 

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

boritz@gwrh.com

 

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

Betaverde.nc@gmail.com

 

 

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

gspang@gulford.edu

 

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

Cindy@sandersridge.com

We are looking for more growers

 

Garden Ridge Farm is a dealer (local) for OMRI and NOP approved inputs and supplements 336-677-1700

Cindy@sandersridge.com

 

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

cclark@duke.edu

 

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

cclark@duke.edu

 

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

cclark@duke.edu

 

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

CClark@duke.edu

 

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