June 2015 — The NC Growing Together Summer 2015 Local Food Supply Chain Apprentices are on the ground and ready to get started on their 8-week assignments! Meet them below:
Josie Walker is from Trenton, NC and is currently an Agricultural and Environmental Systems student at North Carolina A&T University. She will be working with Feast Down East.
Virginia (Gigi) Lytton is from Charlotte, NC and is currently a Global Studies and Medical Anthropology student at the University of North Carolina. She will be working with Lowes Foods.
Eva Moss currently lives in Tennessee but has triple citizenship in New Zealand, Western Samoa, and the United States. Eva is currently an Anthropology student at Sewanee. She will be working with Firsthand Foods.
Kristen Miller is from Mooresboro, NC and is currently a Poultry Science student at NC State University. She will be working with NC Choices.
Erin Lowe is from Austin, Texas and is currently a Farm Intern at World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms in Oregon. Erin graduated from Swarthmore College with a degree in Environmental Studies and Biology with a minor in Psychology. She will be working with Tractor.
Tracy Grubb is from Saxapahaw, NC and is currently a Plant and Soil Sciences student at NC State University. She will be working with the NC 10% Campaign.
Shirlee Evans is from Fayetteville, NC and is an Agribusiness major at NC State University. She will be working with Cumberland County Cooperative Extension.
This is the inaugural year of the NCGT Summer Apprenticeship. In January of 2016 we will invite applications from partner organizations that would like to mentor an apprentice for the summer of 2016.
This article originally appeared in the May/June 2015 NC Growing Together Newsletter.