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 […]
Bull City Cool Upbeet About New Logo
Last month, Bull City Cool launched a competition for half a dozen artists to design an attractive logo for our food hub. After receiving over 25 fantastic submissions, we picked our winner, and we’re thrilled to unveil the winning logo to you! If you carrot all about designs, you’ll understand why this logo beet all […]
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 […]
Locally Produced Video Promotes Local Produced Food
Guest post by Peter Skillern, Executive Director of Reinvestment Partners, introducing our much anticipated Bull City Cool video: Bull City Cool Food Hub is promoting the local food economy. Reinvestment Partners – founder of Bull City Cool – commissioned Roman Gabriel of MoonMan Productions to produce a video on the interconnectedness of the local food […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Re-Introducing 902 N Mangum St
Just over a year ago we introduced you to 902 N Mangum St, and it wasn’t a pretty sight. Today we re-introduce you – this time to the new Bull City Cool Food Hub. And what a transformation! It was oversized and outdated, its excessively blocky structure resembling something you might find in the popular […]
A Garden in the Desert
The Bull City Cool Food Hub is located in a USDA-designated food desert, or an urban neighborhood “without ready access to fresh, healthy, and affordable food.” And strategically so. The hub is designed to bring fresh veggies to food-desert residents, many of whom are more than a half-mile from the nearest supermarket. We’re bridging the […]