On Wednesday evening Bull City Cool hosted the Gardens Galore meeting, a subgroup of End Hunger Durham. Eliza Bordley – Durham Food Security Coordinator at the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle – led this networking event, which gathered together gardeners, small local farmers, neighboring nonprofits, local food businesses, hunger-relief organizations, and individuals interested in growing food.
This meeting was the first in a series of upcoming Gardens Galore meetings at the food hub aimed at connecting various food actors in the community to help make the local food ecosystem more efficient, allowing for more support to both farmers and people in need of fresh food.
The round-table sharing allowed participants to understand what the community’s needs are and what resources are available to them. Participants were also encouraged to add to a map of local food production, aggregation and distribution resources that End Hunger Durham is currently developing. This map is expected to help connect the community and increase the efficiency of hunger mitigation programs in Durham.
Bull City Cool will continue to play host to more food-related meetings, in efforts to encourage further connections and strengthen the local food ecosystem. In January, for instance, the Durham Farmland Protection Advisory Board will use the hub to organize a panel discussion on GAP certification.
If you are interested in joining an upcoming meeting at the hub and want to learn more, click here for End Hunger Durham’s calendar and here for Durham Farmland Advisory Board’s calendar.