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 […]
Durham food hub connects local farmers to local consumers
Durham, N.C. — With the rise in farm-to-table restaurants and produce delivery services, demand is growing for local food. A Durham group says there’s a gap between local farmers and the people who want their produce. The group Farmer Foodshare delivers cases of locally grown food, such as collard greens, from a food hub called […]
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 […]
A Bee’s Perspective on our Urban Garden
When Inter-Faith Food Shuttle joined the Bull City Cool Food Hub last summer, they did more than re-locate their Durham-based programs to Geer Street. They were prepared to grow their programs and capacity through the food hub. Part of that growth included plans to transform the vacant lot next to Reinvestment Partners, and across from […]
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? […]