On September 22nd, Bull City Cool hosted the first of Durham County Soil & Water‘s series of urban agriculture and conservation training workshops, which focused on food safety. CFSA (Carolina Farm Stewardship Association) and CEFS (Center for Environmental Farming Systems) provided technical assistance to attendees on writing and implementing food safety plans on small farms, […]
Plate of the Union Event – 10/26
Bull City Cool and Reinvestment Partners join other local nonprofits in sponsoring a “Plate of the Union” event in Durham on 10/26 @ 6 PM, at the Hayti Heritage Center The Farm & Food Themed Candidates’ Forum will bring together sustainable food leaders, advocates, and local elected officials to show why food and farm issues […]
This Way to Community Health!
The food hub was bustling last Wednesday, as over twenty people gathered for the Partnership for a Healthy Durham’s Obesity and Chronic Illness Committee to discuss health-focused initiatives in Durham. This group is a part of a broader group called Healthy Carolinians, which is a state-wide network of partnerships that address health and safety issues […]
Geer Street Learning Garden – Cultivating Community
A week ago today we celebrated the grand opening and dedication of Inter-Faith Food Shuttle’s (IFFS) Geer Street Learning Garden, in collaboration with Reinvestment Partners. It was a colorful collection of partners, funders, friends, and press at the burgeoning urban garden that’s been carefully tended over the past year. And the topic of the day? […]
Safe Bathrooms Club Member
Bull City Cool, and founder Reinvestment Partners, are officially members of the Safe Bathrooms Club! On April 6th we held an HB2 protest and community-building event in Durham, and now we’ve put ourselves on the map to “demonstrate [our] stance as allies to the LGBTQIA community and fight discrimination together and publicly.” Learn more about […]
100 East Geer Street – A Photo Documentary
100 East Geer Street is a stunning photo documentary, by Holly Bourne, about Reinvestment Partners’ neighborhood revitalization work on the 100 block of East Geer Street in Durham. For those of us who have been involved with Reinvestment Partners (RP) for years, it’s a beautiful tribute the the sweat and tears that we’ve put into […]
Bull City Cool welcomes Neal to the team!
We’ve got exciting news for you: this week, we’re welcoming Neal Curran to Bull City Cool. Neal is our new Food Hub Coordinator and we are beyond excited to have him on board! Neal has worked in various aspects of food production and distribution since 2008. Ranging from on-farm experience to food hub management, Neal […]
Learning from Limits – Our Success (and Failure) Story
Bull City Cool is a success – everyone thinks so… our grantors, our tenants, our neighbors. But how did it become a success? To borrow words from Sumner Redstone: Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes it’s built on catastrophe. Learning From Limits is a new report […]
Welcome new tenants: Relay & LoMo!
Bull City Cool has exciting news: we’re welcoming two awesome tenants to the Food Hub! Relay Foods and LoMo Market are two food businesses that are bringing more sustaina-bull local food through the Food Hub! (We can hardly believe we resisted that pun for as long as we did, folks.) We’ll let the two new […]
Bull City Cool’s Old Condenser Makes a New Connection!
Bull City Cool is an entity that makes connections. Whether that’s through our tenant Farmer Foodshare, who connects local growers to local eaters, or through Farmers’ Meetings hosted at the Hub. That’s great, but what does this have to do with a used refrigerator condenser, you may ask? Well, we had to replace the unit […]