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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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