| 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.
Happy Holidays and we'll see you in 2014!
The NCGT Management Team
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NC Growing Together Holds Second Annual All-Partner Meeting at Fort Bragg
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On December 5, nearly 60 people attended NCGT's second annual all-partner meeting, which was held at NCGT partner Fort Bragg.
The meeting began with a delicious, nearly all-local lunch and included project updates from project staff and panel discussions among the retail and food service buyers involved in the project.
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NCGT and NC Choices Release North Carolina Niche Meat Producers Survey Results
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To help answer questions about the growing niche meat industry in North Carolina, NCGT and NC Choices partnered to carry out a survey of all 500+ registered meat handlers in North Carolina.
Results of the report were presented at the third annual Carolina Meat Conference in Winston-Salem in early December. The full report can be accessed here.
For an interactive map of niche meat producers and processors in North Carolina, visit the NC Choices website. |
| Project Partners: Internship/Apprenticeship Survey Now Online | |
If you are an NCGT partner that is interested in hosting a project apprentice and/or intern, please fill out this online survey. Apprenticeship and internship experiences can help support partners' work and create opportunities for individuals to gain training and professional development related to local food systems and value chains work. |
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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.
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