When Inter-Faith Food Shuttle joined the Bull City Cool Food Hub last summer, they did more than re-locate their Durham-based programs to Geer Street. They were prepared to grow their programs and capacity through the food hub. Part of that growth included plans to transform the vacant lot next to Reinvestment Partners, and across from […]
The Bathroom – Being All It Can Be (Part II)
Reinvestment Partners and the LGBTQ Center of Durham hosted an event at Bull City Cool on Wednesday, titled “Everyone is Welcome (to use our bathroom!).” (Read all about our bathroom’s sordid history HERE). It was a community event to protest HB2 and foster solidarity and inclusion. And it was a success on all fronts. But […]
Crown Jewel of the Geer Street Food Corridor
Raleigh & Company featured Bull City Cool in an in-depth article about local healthy food systems. Jen Baker’s “Food: It’s Complicated” explores the development of the Geer Street Food Corridor in Durham since 2012, as well as Bull City Cool’s role as the corridor’s “crown jewel.” This excerpt gives a glimpse into what made our […]
Making news… and connections!
Bull City Cool made headlines in the News & Observer today in Virginia Bridges’ article “Durham’s Bull City Cool food hub connects.” Bridges highlights what makes our food hub so cool – our public interest focus. Not only does the hub “serve as a key connection for local nonprofits, small businesses and farmers,” but Bull […]
DEAH DAY: Directing Efforts And Honoring Deah And Yusor
School’s out so you head to…? Not the beach. Not back to bed. But to do community service in honor of your slain classmates. (Not the way I would have liked to finish that sentence…) Students at the UNC School of Dentistry spent Thursday, September 17th, honoring the lives of their two murdered classmates by […]
A picture’s worth a thousand words
Our Grand Opening was front page news on September 10th at The Herald Sun! Alex Dixon’s article “Bull City Cool Food Hub opens doors” introduced us to “the world” and succinctly summed up they whys and hows of our operations and programmatic goals, in about 500 words. That’s no small feat for a vision that […]
Grand Opening packed a punch… and a crowd!
We celebrated our Grand Opening on Thursday, September 10th, to a crowd of almost 100 people! Elected state and county officials, neighborhood residents, funders, and government partners all came through the doors of Bull City Cool to welcome the new Food Hub to the neighborhood. Senator Floyd McKissick, Jr. was one attendant of the Grand […]
BCC is “a place for the magic to happen”
Bull City Cool finds ourselves (were we lost?) making headlines again! This time Wellness Warrior’s Damon Cory-Watson explores what makes us a food hub in his compelling article “Bull City Cool in Durham, North Carolina— the Future of Food?” This short excerpt makes a great “elevator speech” to answer the question we hear most frequently, […]
Pitch fork to salad fork… and everything in between
Bull City Cool makes headlines again! This time the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association (CFSA) has featured an interview with Peter Skillern, executive director of Reinvestment Partners and “father figure” of the food hub. Who is CFSA? In their own words… …a farmer-driven, membership-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that helps people in the Carolinas grow and eat […]
What does the trash say?
Inter-Faith Food Shuttle is wasting no time getting comfortable in their new space at and around the Bull City Cool Food Hub. How can you tell? They have trash here, and it’s talking! These compost bins – adjacent to their urban garden – make it clear they’ve been getting their hands in the dirt. And […]