We love a good urban mural for everything it brings to the community. It’s a beautiful surprise of color and design amidst a normally dull landscape. (Seeing an unexpected mural always makes me smile!) It’s a canvas for one or more artists, whether they grew up locally or are recent transplants, just coming to appreciate […]
BCC Hosts Holiday Frozen Poultry Drive
This fall, the Durham Farm and Food Network’s End Hunger Durham Initiative invited community and church food pantry coordinators to a meeting with the objective of organizing and collaborating to better serve Durham’s food insecure families. Utmost in food pantry operators’ concerns was the crucial need at this time of year for more food […]
BCC’s Newest Addition – Ungraded Produce
Duke seniors Courtney Bell and Saranya Ranganathan are the newest addition to the Bull City Cool tenant roster with their startup company, Ungraded Produce. Beginning with a trial phase in September 2016, Ungraded Produce serves Duke students, faculty, and alumni with a CSA-style delivery of produce that comes in all shapes and sizes. They specialize in […]
Durham, NC: Creating Space to Revitalize Community & Health
The Center for Environmental Farming Systems at NCSU featured Bull City Cool as one of several case studies about local food economy development in North Carolina. The two-page published paper, “Durham, NC: Creating Space to Revitalize Community & Health,” does an excellent job of highlighting the benefits of Bull City Cool’s business model at the […]
Meet our Neighbors – Part II
One of the best parts of neighborhood revitalization is the neighbors! The Bull City Cool Food Hub is on the same block as a convenience store, an urban garden, and a transmission shop… and they are all integral parts of our block’s revitalization. Get to know Martin of Mike’s Transmission Service in this beautiful character […]
Documenting Durham – Block by Block
Bull City Cool is the featured photo for Bit & Grain’s “Documenting Durham, Block by Block,” a collection of photo documentaries. The extensive community development of Reinvestment Partners, founder of Bull City Cool, is recorded in Holly Bourne’s “The 100-Block of East Geer Street.” Bourne’s work is one of six featured student stories that came […]
BCBSNC, where does your garden grow?
BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) had an employee garden that donated 72 pounds of fresh food last year to those in need. But they wanted to do more. They wanted more of their 5,000 employees to be able to participate, and they wanted to increase their yield. So when the garden’s manager, Eliza Bordley […]
Meet our Neighbors – Part I
The 100 block of East Geer St is a healthy food corridor, flanked by our Bull City Cool Food Hub and what appears to be a normal quick-stop convenience store. But wait— convenience store food isn’t healthy… or is it? Turns out it can be! Hill’s corner store has been carrying fresh produce for years… […]
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? […]
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 […]
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