LibGuides: Food Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Why, What and How We Eat: Duke & Durham

New! Digging Durham Seed Library

Durham County Library’s Digging Durham Seed Library provides a repository for seeds and training for its patrons.

Its missiion is to improve local sustainable food sources, enhance food security, develop local biodiversity and boost Durham’s foodie culture.

NC Cooperative Extension

North Carolina Cooperative Extension (NCCES) is a university-based consumer education, information and research dept. Resources include:

Growing Small Farms: resource for farmers and gardeners
"Buy Local Guide": information on topics from plant disease to organic pest management
Local Foods
Field Crops

Around Durham

Learn more about buying local and getting involved.

Carolina Farm Stewardship Association

Center for Environmental Farming Systems

Durham Farmers' Market

SEEDS

The 10% Campaign - Building North Carolina's Local Food Economy

Triangle Area Food Organizations

PORCH Communities Chapel Hill and Carrboro
PORCH is an all-volunteer, grassroots hunger relief organization whose mission is to collect and distribute food for families going hungry
Table NC
TABLE's mission is to provide healthy, emergency food aid every week to hungry preschool, elementary, and middle school children living in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC.

Center for Environmental Farming Systems

From Farm to Fork: A Guide to Building North Carolina's Sustainable Local Food Economy

CEFS is a partnership between NCSU, N.C. A & T and the N.C. Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services (NCDA&CS).

Its mission is to develop and promote food and farming systems that protect the environment, strengthen local communities and provide economic opportunities in North Carolina and beyond.

See their action guide, "From Farm to Fork: A Guide to Building North Carolina's Sustainable Local Food Economy:"

Executive Summary and Recommendations

At Duke

Guiliano, Meghan. Green Dining at Duke University: Facilitating Local and Sustainable Food Procurement. Masters Thesis, 2010.

Duke Campus Farm, one-acre fruit and vegetable farm and educational facility that provides the Duke community with produce

Duke Farmers Market, provides Duke faculty and staff with fresh, locally-grown produce.

Duke Mobile Market

Farmhand, Nicholas School student group that provides physical labor for local small-scale farmers that produce healthy food for the Durham/Triangle community