November 2014 - Last month we invited you to see the inner workings of a produce distribution center. Now, 2013-2014 NC Growing Together Supply Chain Fellow Sebastian Naskaris has created two new walkthrough documents that show how meat moves through the supply chain with the same step-by-step explanation and helpful photos. Process Walkthrough: Direct-Store Delivery (DSD) [...]
November 2014 - The NCGT Local Food Infrastructure Inventory is a mapped inventory of businesses that serve as intermediary steps in local food supply chains. This includes value-added processors, fresh produce wholesaler/distributors, multi-farm CSA"s, food hubs, community kitchens, incubator farms, and cold storage locations. "It"s a great guide for new farmers," says Henderson County extension [...]
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 [...]
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>
April 2014 - NCGT project researchers and student teams from the NC State graduate-level business course "Local Foods Supply Chains" met with NCGT partners to present their work on April 22 at the JC Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh. Among the presentations, five student teams and two supply chain scholars offered potential solutions to aggregation and [...]
NCGT Sponsors Nation's First Local Foods-Focused Business School Supply Chain Fellowships <a href="http://www.ncgrowingtogether.org/?p=458">Read the Story</a>
