Innovative Approaches to Local Foods Markets: Free Event in Greensboro

Join entrepreneurs and community builders/coops as they talk about the businesses and ventures they are creating to innovate North Carolina’s farm to table economy.
 
Who should attend?
Farmers, local foods entrepreneurs, restaurants, grocery stores/food retail outlets, services providers to the local foods community.

Date:

Time:

Location:

Tues,Feb 26

1:oo - 4:30 p.m.

Guilford County Extension Center
3309 Burlington Road, Greensboro

Agenda

Introduction

Debbie Hamrick, NC Farm Bureau/NC Local Sustainable Foods Advisory Council & Gary Bullen, NCSU Ag&Resources Economics Dept.

Local Foods Business 2 Business

Pilot Mountain Pride, Bryan Cave, Surry County, New Home | Pilot Mountain Pride
Mint Market, Durham, Ricky Spero Mint Market | Mint Market launches online store for local food
Sandhills Farm2Table (food hub plans), Whispering Pines, Fenton Wilkinson Sandhills Farm to Table Cooperative
ECO, Durham, Sandi Kronick Eastern Carolina Organics
D’Vine Foods, Dublin, Roy Taylor D'Vine Foods - Home
Farm Hand Foods, Durham, Jennifer Curtis Farmhand Foods | Welcome
Docks2Door, Chapel Hill, Amanda Miller EVENTS

10-minute break

Local Foods Direct to Consumer with Flair

Lo-Mo Market, Raleigh-Durham, Guenevere Abernathy  LoMo Market | Farm Fresh Food North Carolina 
The Produce Box, Courtney Tellefson/Kevin O'Connell, Raleigh, The Produce Box - Local Produce Delivery - Raleigh, Durham, Cary, Apex and Wilmington
Sandhills Farm2Table Cooperative, Whispering Pines, Steve Peters Sandhills Farm to Table Cooperative
Bread Riot,  Salisbury & Rowan Counties, Sherry Walker Mission and Objectives

Wrap up

REGISTER HERE: http://2013piedmontgrownmtg.eventbrite.com/ 

For information about “Innovative Approaches to Local Foods Markets” (no fee) (agenda below), contact  debbie.hamrick@ncfb.org

Organized by the North Carolina Local Sustainable Foods Advisory Council Subcommittee on Economic Development & Infrastructure in cooperation with the NCSU Agricultural and Resource Economics Department and NCSU/NCA&T Cooperative Extension.
There is no charge to attend “Innovative Approaches to Local Foods Markets.”