Join us for our March Fundamental Friday session to hear Rachel Silber, an AmeriCorps VISTA member at The Health Collaborative, discuss the meaning of collaboration and the benefits of having different sectors involved in the work and conversations. Rachel will be using her work with the Local Food System Steering Committee here in the region […]
Join us in January for a presentation from the Telamon Corporation on the National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP). This program partners with community organizations and state agencies to counter the chronic unemployment and underemployment experienced by seasonal and migrant farmworkers who depend primarily on jobs in agricultural labor performed across the country. In addition, NFJP […]
Join us this month to hear from the Community Food Network (CFN), a taskforce of the Health Collaborative working to develop a fair and economically robust local food system in the Dan River Region. The CFN is working to build a diverse network of stakeholders that connects people from agriculture, education, business, nonprofits, local government, […]
Join us on a tour of the Urban Farm at God’s Storehouse to learn about their mission of increasing healthy food in our region, see what’s planted and what we have planned for the future. You will also hear about the upcoming educational workshops and workdays, and how the Urban Farm has engaged in the […]
