Bull City Cool is the food hub with fresh veggies, and fresh conversation! We’re in the business of facilitating and fostering discussion around healthy food and hunger in Durham and across the state. That’s why we hosted 25 participants from 17 agencies on January 28th at the hub – all of whom work on food […]
Keepin’ NC Veggies Cool!
Bull City Cool is committed to keeping North Carolina veggies cool, in all senses of the word. And what better way to do that than with a 24-foot refrigerated truck? Patrick of Seal the Seasons picked up this new-to-us truck in Boston last week, and drove it home to Bull City Cool. The truck, like […]
Farmers’ Breakfast at the Hub
Three years ago, Reinvestment Partners envisioned creating a food hub… A place that would strengthen Durham’s local food ecosystem by providing space and connections to benefit local farmers, food businesses and hunger-relief nonprofits. Since then, we’ve worked step by step setting the stage to actualize this vision and create our Bull City Cool Food Hub. […]
Food Hub Coordinator – Position Open!
Bull City Cool Food Hub is the proud home of many growing local nonprofits and small businesses, thanks to the efforts our Food Hub Coordinator, Christelle. Sadly, she’ll be leaving Bull City Cool at the end of the month, so we need someone to fill her shoes. So read on and apply if the shoes […]
Bull City Cool Upbeet About New Logo
Last month, Bull City Cool launched a competition for half a dozen artists to design an attractive logo for our food hub. After receiving over 25 fantastic submissions, we picked our winner, and we’re thrilled to unveil the winning logo to you! If you carrot all about designs, you’ll understand why this logo beet all […]
Locally Produced Video Promotes Local Produced Food
Guest post by Peter Skillern, Executive Director of Reinvestment Partners, introducing our much anticipated Bull City Cool video: Bull City Cool Food Hub is promoting the local food economy. Reinvestment Partners – founder of Bull City Cool – commissioned Roman Gabriel of MoonMan Productions to produce a video on the interconnectedness of the local food […]
SEEDS for community growth
What can gardening teach you? Coming from a family of farmers, I’d have to say, “Waste not, want not.” After all, when you witness firsthand what it takes to grow your own food, no one has to tell you to value it. Luckily there are organizations like SEEDS that continue to teach “respect for life, […]
Bull City Cool is the Hostess with the Mostess
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 […]
Bull City Cool welcomes new Food Hub Coordinator!
Help us give a warm welcome to Bull City Cool’s new Food Hub Coordinator, Christelle Siohan! (Insert energetic clapping here!) Christelle comes to BCC with a long history of food access work, eco-activism, and international development. She has helped develop sustainable agriculture and food insecurity programs with OneAction, and provided support to the Pickards Mountain […]
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 […]