| NCGT Monthly Project Update |
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Read the notes from our last Management Team meeting (opens as a .pdf).
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| About NCGT | | |
GOAL | Bring more locally-grown foods - produce, meat, dairy, and seafood - into mainstream retail and food service supply chains, thus enhancing food security by increasing access to local foods and by strengthening the economics of small to mid-sized farm and fishing operations.
STRATEGY | Identify the most promising solutions by which local production and associated value-added activities can enter local retail and food service markets, pilot these solutions in North Carolina, and evaluate and report the results for the benefit of other states and regions.
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Greetings all,
Thanks for reading our monthly project update and please let us know what you think!
Sincerely,
The NCGT Management Team
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NC Growing Together and NC Choices: Connecting Producers to Resources, Products to Markets!
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NC Growing Together and NC Choices are working together to support local and niche meat supply chains in North Carolina. The partners have co-produced several new guides, which are downloadable from the NCGT website.
For buyers/retailers:
Retailer Talking Points: How to Answer Consumer Questions on Local Meats
For producers:
The partners have also worked with Lowes Foods to support sourcing of local niche meat products. Lowes Foods is piloting Cheshire Heritage Pork sales in two of its Raleigh-area stores, Clayton and Strickland Road.
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Building Local Foods Sales in Retail Settings:
New Resources for Buyers and Retailers on the NCGT Website
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Several new resources have recently been added to the NCGT website that offer advice for retailers seeking to build their local foods sales. The documents were produced by UNC-Chapel Hill researchers as part of the work of the NCGT Consumer Team and both provide research-based recommendations on building local foods sales in retail settings.
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| Local Food Coming to Fort Bragg | | |
 The locally-sourced lunch that NC Growing Together and Fort Bragg are putting together for the NCGT all-partner meeting on December 5 is shaping up to be delicious!
Fort Bragg chefs are working with NCGT to create a menu that reflects the seasonal bounty of our state, and NCGT partner Foster-Caviness is working with local suppliers to source local meats, vegetables, and other products for the event.
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Project Contact Information
Rebecca Dunning, NCGT Project and Research Coordinator, [email protected], 919-389-2220
Nancy Creamer, Co-Director of the Center for Environmental Farming Systems, NC State University; and Project Director, NC Growing Together, [email protected], 919-515-9447
John O'Sullivan, Co-Director of the Center for Environmental Farming Systems, NC A&T State University; and Co-Principal Investigator, NC Growing Together, [email protected], 336-285-4683
Michelle Schroeder-Moreno, NCGT Academic Coordinator, [email protected], 919-513-0085
Joanna Lelekacs, NCGT Extension and Training Coordinator, [email protected], 919-244-5269
Ariel Fugate, Locally Grown Accounts Representative, Lowes Foods; and Lowes Foods Liaison, NC Growing Together, [email protected], 859-552-3467
JJ Richardson, NCGT Website and Communications Coordinator, [email protected], 919-527-9891
NC Growing Together is funded by the United States Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, grant #2012-68004-20363.
� 2013 NC Growing Together
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