Knowing how to grow food is an important step toward developing a locally-owned food system that builds sufficiency and community power.
The more we understand about growing and preparing food, the healthier we are.
The Food Shuttle maintains two community gardens: a demonstration garden on Geer Street in Durham and a community garden on Camden Street in Raleigh. These locations engage citizens in growing techniques, food production, bee pollination, and health education.
Food Shuttle Learning Gardens
Camden Street Learning Garden
315 Camden Street, Raleigh, N.C.Located in the Southeast Raleigh Food Desert, the Camden Street Learning Garden is a green space in the middle of a city where kids, families and individuals can be in nature and grow food to nourish their community.
Geer Street Learning Garden
110 E. Geer Street, Durham, N.C.Packed into only a quarter-acre lot in the heart of Durham, the Geer Street Learning Garden is building resilient community connections and engaging people of all ages in the powerful act of growing local food.
Inter-Faith Food Shuttle is dedicated to finding innovative ways to fight hunger, and partnerships with community members like Doron Gordon, Patrick Faulkner, Alonzo Alexander, and the Gordon Family Foundation make this possible. We are incredibly grateful for the Gordon Family Foundation’s gift of the FarmBot, and excited about its potential to teach children about growing their own food!
It was one of those perfect North Carolina spring days: the sun was shining, the temperature was in the mid 70s, a nice breeze was blowing, the rain from the day before had cleared out and folks were eager to get out and enjoy the beautiful weather. You couldn’t ask for a better setting for the Geer Street Learning Garden’s first annual Garden Party and Compost Giveaway.
In short, we love our volunteers! April is Volunteer Appreciation Month, and we take appreciating our volunteers pretty seriously.
Members of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality joined food bank and food hub leaders from around the state at the Food Shuttle Farm for the inaugural Food Rescue Roundtable to address efforts to reduce food waste and improve the effectiveness of hunger relief.
Lettuce and collards and cucumbers. Oh, my! Beginning on Monday, April 3, the Food Shuttle Farm Stand will be open for business again, selling produce fresh from the fields, chemical-free, and all sales supporting the hunger relief programs of Inter-Faith Food Shuttle.
The McLauchlan family started the Back Yard Foundation to make a difference “in their own backyard” through funding efforts in education, health, arts and culture, and essential living gifts. They’ve recently come onboard as supporters of Inter-Faith Food Shuttle with the understanding that our missions for the good of our community align so well.
Every once in a while, an idea comes along that is so simple in concept and makes so much sense that you wonder why things haven’t been running that way all along. That’s what happened with the produce initiative at Inter-Faith Food Shuttle. The idea was to buy produce at wholesale prices from limited-resourced local farmers and connect those farmers to partner agencies in their area who are distributing to neighbors in need.
Gardens For Everyone takes the Food Shuttle’s well-established community gardening program on the road by building 8’ x 4’ x 20” raised garden boxes at individuals’ homes or for community organizations. This is a pay-what-you-can effort, asking for a minimum $25 from individuals and the full cost of $200 per bed from organizations.
We are thrilled that our President and CEO, L. Ron Pringle, selected to participate at the White House’s “Communities in Action: Building a Better NC” series on Thursday, September 22.