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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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… […]
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 […]
The Bathroom – Being All It Can Be (Part II)
Reinvestment Partners and the LGBTQ Center of Durham hosted an event at Bull City Cool on Wednesday, titled “Everyone is Welcome (to use our bathroom!).” (Read all about our bathroom’s sordid history HERE). It was a community event to protest HB2 and foster solidarity and inclusion. And it was a success on all fronts. But […]
Learning from Limits – Our Success (and Failure) Story
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 […]
Welcome new tenants: Relay & LoMo!
Bull City Cool has exciting news: we’re welcoming two awesome tenants to the Food Hub! Relay Foods and LoMo Market are two food businesses that are bringing more sustaina-bull local food through the Food Hub! (We can hardly believe we resisted that pun for as long as we did, folks.) We’ll let the two new […]
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 […]
Fresh Food and Healthy Conversation
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 […]
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