Cultivating Food Resilience in a Pandemic

Cultivating Food Resilience in a Pandemic

In the best of times, cultivating local foodways yields many benefits to you and your family, your neighborhood and your greater community.  Some of these benefits include improved psychological health and reduced stress through interactions with nature and the act of...
Indigenous Cultures of the Piedmont

Indigenous Cultures of the Piedmont

This is the second in a series of five blogs that explore the 10,000 year history of human relationship to the land in the Piedmont region of North Carolina.  Other blogs in this series include The Long Story of Catawba Run, European Colonization, Industrialization,...
The Long Story of Catawba Run

The Long Story of Catawba Run

This is the first in a series of five blogs that explore the 10,000 year history of human relationship to the land in the Piedmont region of North Carolina.  Other blogs in this series include Indigenous Cultures of the Piedmont, European Colonization,...
Foragable Community at the Master Gardener College

Foragable Community at the Master Gardener College

Celebrating Place, Cultivating Resilience Laura Lengnick, Foragable Community’s Resilience Partner, led a workshop entitled Celebrating Place, Cultivating Resilience at this year’s Extension Master Gardener College hosted by North Carolina State University...
Foragable Durham Leads a Walk on the Wild Side

Foragable Durham Leads a Walk on the Wild Side

About 30 people gathered at Mystic Farm & Distillery on a recent warm spring morning to learn about foraging wild edible ingredients and the magic of fermentation!  Local-food educators from Piedmont Picnic led attendees on a foraging walk around the Mystic Farm...