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 […]
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 […]
It’s a beaut, Clark!
Bull City Cool may turn heads during the day, but it’s giving people whiplash at night! As I stand out front and see it bathed in light, I can’t help hearing, “It’s a beaut, Clark! It’s a beaut!” from Christmas Vacation. At night the stunning interior renovations are brightly on display. In this photo you […]
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