Street Farmer (read article)
By ELIZABETH ROYTE
Published: July 5, 2009 in The New York Times
Can Will Allen make the inner city the next front in the good-food movement?

(This is a little late. Apologies.)
I gladly ventured into the rain last Tuesday to attend the first day of the Krankies Local Market and was delighted to see it humming with vendors and patrons alike. All of the items that were listed were present and at the ready on various tables: pasture-raised lamb, free range [...]

[ May 5, 2009; 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. ]

(via PeaNC)

Triad Buying Co-op and Krankies Coffee have teamed up to offer a truly sustainable Farmer’s Market.  The market starts this week, Tuesday, May 5th, from 11 am to 1 pm, and runs throughout the Summer and into the Fall, every Tuesday.  What sets this Farmer’s Market apart from others is that all the produce [...]

[ May 2, 2009; 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] Stop by City Beverage Co. (915 Burke St., next to Lighthouse Restaurant) this Saturday from 12-4pm for the Organic Market!  They started the market last Saturday and it was a huge success.  They will carry eggs, organic fertilizer, herbs, a little produce and lots of organic vegetable plants. Take your own bag and check it out!

[ April 25, 2009; 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm. April 26, 2009 1:00 pm to April 27, 2009 6:00 pm. ] Saturday, April 25, 2009 1:00pm - Sunday, April 26, 2009 6:00pm

A chance for local sustainable farms to shine and 3,000+ folks to see where our food and fiber really comes from. Forty farms in Orange, Chatham, Alamance, Durham and Person Counties - organic and biodynamic farms, pastured livestock, Cute bunnies and [...]

[ April 24, 2009; 7:00 pm to 8:20 pm. April 26, 2009; 9:30 am to 10:50 am. ] Directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy
2008 / USA / 80 minutes
SCREENINGS:
April 24 / 7:00pm / UNCSA - Gold
April 26 / 9:30am / UNCSA - Main

Coming May 5, 2009! (This is so exciting!!!)
A new farmers’ market in downtown Winston-Salem will feature locally grown foods from farmers using sustainable methods. 
The market is a joint effort between Krankies Coffee and Triad Buying Co-op Inc. to increase the availability of locally produced, high-quality food. The market will include vegetables, fruit, honey, eggs, goat cheese from [...]

[ February 28, 2009; 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. ]

Saturday, February 28, 2009 9:00am - 4:00pm

This workshop, sponsored by Reynolda Gardens of Wake Forest University, will teach you how to plan, plant, and maintain a four-season vegetable garden through discussion, demonstration, and activities led by the RGWFU staff.  Topics include:

Growing organically
Designing a garden that works for you
Understanding local growing conditions
Starting new plants

Space is limited. [...]

[ February 20, 2009; 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ]

Friday, February 20, 2009 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Guest Speaker Michelle Dyer, Vice President of Second Nature will discuss why sustainability is the key skill to create organizational change.  Too often, we view health, social, economic, security, environmental, and other major societal issues as separate, competing, and hierarchical, when they are really systemic and interdependent. We do [...]

[ March 9, 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Monday, March 9 at 7:00pm || Shirley Recital Hall, Salem Fine Arts Center

Winner of the Nautilus Award for Social Change, Anna Lappe´’s book Hope’s Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet, is co-written with her mother, Frances Moore Lappe´. It chronicles social movements around the world and addresses the root causes of hunger and [...]