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Impromptu staff box pack this morning. Got 25 food boxes ready to go for @helpcenternc ✌️ To all our regular volunteers who are wondering, yes, we still made Joe do his spiel 😏 #farmerfoodshare #boxpack #freshlocalfoodforall #foodhub #vegetables

Thank you to our sponsor, Alliance Health, who recently awarded Farmer Foodshare a Community Impact Sponsorship. This generosity enables us to create a more equitable food system, purchasing from NC farmers and providing fresh, local food to folks in our community facing food insecurity. Supporters like @alliancehealthnc grow our impact. Learn how your organization can carry Farmer Foodshare’s mission further through sponsorship by visiting our website. #farmerfoodsharecommunity #supportlocalfarmers #supportfoodaccess #freshlocalfoodforall

Last week's popup market was a success! Join us again on Tuesday, November 24th from 2-6pm for our Thanksgiving Popup Market — build your own produce box, get fresh veggies, holiday decorations, and other essentials for the season from your local farmers. #farmerfoodshare #producemarket #locallygrown #supportlocalfarmers

Thank you to all our pumpkin pals (that's Y'ALL!) for supporting local farmers this spooky season! 🎃🧡 Pictured: @cds_unc @durhamcoopmarket @biogen_global #farmerfoodshare #pumpkins #locallygrown

Tomorrow! Join us at the food hub for an afternoon of fall fun. Fall Popup Market at Farmer Foodshare Friday, October 23rd, 2-6pm 902 N Mangum St. Durham, NC 27701 All purchases support NC farmers and food access programs throughout the Triangle. www.farmerfoodshare.org/popup-markets/ #fall #durhamnc #farmerfoodshare #supportlocalfarms #saveahorserideahaybale

See ya, summer. Hello, fall! 🍉🍆🍐🍇🍎🫑🎃

🌞 A food system like no other Subscribe to get rooted in our community — link in our bio! #ncfoodsystem #localfood #farmerfoodshare #rootedincommunity #foodhub

We are delighted to welcome six new community members to the Farmer Foodshare Board of Directors: Bates Whitaker, Julie Malloy, Christine Cody, Amy Roussel, Harriet Hopkins, and David Regan. We are grateful and eager to have their expertise help carry Farmer Foodshare’s mission forward. Welcome, y'all! #farmerfoodsharecommunity #aboutus #introducing #welcomeyall #meettheteam

Join us for some fun in the coming weeks! Be sure to stop by our table to say hello. 🍻 Karma Keg at @hiwirebrewing_durm - Thursday, Sep 17th, 4:30-7:30 Every drink purchase earns a digital vote for a participating nonprofit (Farmer Foodshare 😉). ⚾️ Food Pantry Collective at @durhambulls – Monday, September 7th, 4-6pm Catch the game and get a chance to meet your local food pantries and food access organizations. 🍏 AppleFest at @weaverstreetmarket (Carrboro) - saturday, September 26th, 11am-1pm Enjoy samples of all things apple. See you there! #TriangleEvents #farmerfoodshare #communityeventsdurham #localfood #applefest

Congratulations to our wholesale partner, @elondining, whose dining program won Silver for Sustainable Procurement for NACUFS 2026! Meaningful economic support for local farmers is possible because of food service institutions that want to see our food system thrive. As one of our major food hub customers, we are happy to see Elon recognized for its dedication and grateful to be a part of the impact! Enjoy these throwbacks of the state fair takeover last year featuring lots of locally sourced produce! 🎪 Learn more about our food hub customers and how they make a difference in our food system by visiting our website. #elondiningservices #farmerfoodshare #eatlocal #sustainbledining #sustainability #nacufs2026

🤝 Let’s grow a flavorful future togther. #flavorfulfuture #equitablefoodsystem #growtogether #farmerfoodshare #foodhub

North Carolina boasts the longest bean ever grown on record — 48.75 inches — as well as 1.6 million acres of farmland devoted to soybeans alone. There’s lots to love about these late summer legumes. They are star nitrogen fixers, water efficient, packed with protein and fiber, and make excellent companion crops to many. We love to see the variety grown by our local farmers — Dragon Tongue, Chinese Long Bean, and the good old fashioned Green Bean. 🫛💚 #beans #greenbean #summer #locallygrown #farmerfoodshare

If you’ve volunteered with us before, you’ve heard Joe, our Program Manager, say, “We couldn’t do this without y’all, and we wouldn’t WANT to do this without y’all,” and it’s true. Our box program makes the big impact that it does because all kinds of folks believe in the mission, show up, and pitch in for our community. Y’all are truly hub heroes. Join us by signing up for a pack day — link in bio! #volunteer #farmerfoodshare #foodhub #foodsecurity #hubheroes

Our Executive Director and Director of Operations spoke with @nchealthnews about the direct impacts of drought on local farmers as well as community food access. Thank you to Will Atwater for taking the time to talk with us and to Diana Lopez for getting the word out! Link to full story in our bio. #localfood #drought #ncagriculture #farmerfoodshare #NCHealthNews

Figs are in season, and ours came to us from Helena Feder’s mini-farm — 33 pounds of Brown Sugar figs which our CSA members got in their boxes recently. 💜 Yum 💚 #figs #locallygrown #csaforall! #farmerfoodshare #foodhub #ncagriculture #minfarm

Congratulations to @lutrabakery on the official opening of their new cafe space at @americantobaccocampus! We’ve been proud to supply fresh, locally sourced produce to Lutra along their journey and were delighted to provide them with Pee Dee Orchards peaches, Old Mountain Berry Patch blackberries, Martin’s Blueberry Farm blueberries, and Latta’s eggs for opening weekend! Every purchase from our food hub customers provides local farmers with sales to grow their businesses and helps fund food access efforts throughout the Triangle. Thank you, Lutra, for partnering with us! 💙💙💙 #lutrracafeandbakery #downtowndurham #americantobaccocampus #atcdurham #farmerfoodshare #localingredients

High season. Harvest season. Peak season. Whatever you call it, late spring to early fall is aptly named — there’s A LOT of produce coming through the food hub right now. Peppers are coming down the pike! We already have half a dozen varieties at the food hub, with many more coming soon, and if you can believe it, the first apples and Asian pears of the season are here. Every week, there’s something new and delicious arriving on our trucks and going out to our partners. We wouldn’t have it any other way. 😋 #peakseason #farmerfoodshare #ncagriculture #inseason #foodhub

Seed to smoothie! 🫐 We had a blast participating in the @f2fpicnic AgriKids Fest at @marblesraleigh, connecting with families about our work, and sharing so many samples of fresh, local goodness — gallons of Blueberry Chocolate Farm Shake made with 36 pints of berries from Martin’s Blueberry Farm along with other NC-grown ingredients. Thank you to @weaverstreetmarket for making SO much smoothie and letting us team up with y’all, and to @cefsnc for bringing the community together to celebrate our food system! #seedtosmoothie #agrikids #farmerfoodshare #marblesnc #weaverstreetmarket

We hosted a group from Community Workforce Solutions’ @bridgethegap.cws program last month, sharing about our work in the community, checking out the coolers, and enjoying some local snacks! It’s always sweet introducing new folks to the food hub and our mission. Thanks for visiting, y’all! #bridge #communityworkforcesolutions #farmerfoodshare #friendsofthefoodshare #foodhub #berries

Feeding North Carolina with the fresh, healthy food grown right here. 🫑🥕🌽 #feedingnc #freshlocalfoodforall #localfarmers #farmerfoodshare #ncagriculture

Did someone say summer? 🍑 🍈 🍅 🍆 🍉 #inseason #summer #locallygrown #ncagriculture #melons

We did it. Our food box program had back-to-back record-breaking days this week — 663 boxes on Monday, 853 on Wednesday, totaling 18,727 meals for folks in our community across Durham, Orange, Wake County and beyond. The boxes are headed to our partner organizations, @nourishedrx @foodbankcenc and @porchhillsborough, as well as our CSA members. This big impact quite literally would not be possible without our volunteers who show up, work as a team, and bring so much heart to every part of the process. Thank you @activategood for helping us get all our slots covered! Can’t wait to break more records in the future 😎 #freshlocalfood #farmerfoodshare #foodaccess #foodjustice #ncagriculture

Have you heard? You can now get Farmer Foodshare produce at @partandparceldurham! We’ve worked with Part & Parcel for several years, collaborating on food distributions in the community, and we’re so glad to see our partnership grow as one of our food hub customers — every order supports hardworking farmers while helping fund our food access programs. Today’s pickup: peaches and tomatoes. 🍑🍅 Yum! #peachy #tomatotomato #farmerfoodshare #partandparceldurham #bulk

Here’s what fresh, local food for all looks like. #feedingnc #freshlocalfoodforall #localfarmers #farmerfoodshare #ncagriculture

Why the giant wall of boxes, you say? It's a big week for our box program! We pack 691 boxes today, 853 (!!!) on Wednesday for @foodbankcenc @nourishedrx and CSA for ALL!, and last week's team got a head start on box folding. We'd say wish us luck, but our incredible community of volunteers is already ready to go, and we know we'll make it happen. Want to join our crew? Visit our bio to sign up for upcoming pack days. #volunteer #foodjustice #fooddistribution #farmerfoodsharecommunity #box

Potatoes! Truly tubular, splendid spuds. These starchy vegetables are extracted from the earth around this time of year. More than 200 varieties are sold in the US, and although we don’t have quite that many at the food hub, we’re sourcing a good number from several farmers in our network: 🥔 Yukon Gold, Russet, and Red from Nature’s Way 🥔 Red Potatoes from @mooresproducefamilyfarm and Wise Farms 🥔 Red and Yukon Gold from Cottle Organics 🥔 New Purple from Lee’s Produce Visit the link in our bio for an easy Potato Salad recipe and share with a friend for delicious meals this summer! #potatopotato #spuds #taters #farmerfoodshare #locallygrown

It’s toasty! 🌞🌞🌞🌞 CSA pickups are inside today with some extra special surprises for our members — fresh lemon verbena and chocolate mint, Cherokee Purple tomatoes from Yeti Farms, and choose-your-own watermelon! Stay cool, y’all! 🍅🌱😎🍉 #herbs #tomato #summer #csaforall! #farmerfoodshare

🍉🚨 Watermelons are in the house!! 🚨🍉 And cantaloupe...and fresh herbs...and elephant garlic...and some of the last strawberries of the season...and and and. Happy summer, everybody! #summer #watermelon #locallygrown #ncagriculture #supportlocalfarms

The mid-1800’s food system was in complete disarray. Farming cooperatives brought decades of economic and social progress for Black communities. This month, with the observance of Juneteenth, we are reminded of how food and farming serve as powerful catalysts in the pursuit of justice. Visit the link in our bio to learn more about early social justice movements in the North Carolina food system. Attribution: Dorothea Lange, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons #juneteenth #justice #racialjustice #foodjustice #foodsystem

Please give a warm welcome to the newest Farmer Foodshare team members! Chris Stone (left) is our Food Hub Inventory Manager, our #1 point person on quality control who ensures all the produce is kept as fresh as possible and gets where it needs to be. Shell Pitcher (right) is our Seasonal Food Hub Business Manager, handling procurement and order fulfillment and serving as the primary contact for our farmers, customers, and community partners. We are glad to have these two join the crew and keep our work moving forward! #dreamteam #farmerfoodshare #foodhub #farmerfoodsharecommunity #durhamnc

🪏 It’s more than just food grown here. Get our monthly newsletters to connect with your food system — subscribe through the link in our bio. #foodsystem #farmerfoodshare #foodhub #supportlocalfarmers #ncagriculture

In the food hub lately: summer squash, green beans, white sweet potatoes, first-of-the-season corn, cukes, and berries, berries, berries — summer produce is here! 🌽🍠🥒🍑 🫐 🫛🍓 #ncgrown #ncagriculture #foodhub #farmerfoodshare #berries #summer

There are lots of steps to get fresh produce from the farm where it’s grown to the community, and box packs are one of them. Volunteers join us at our food hub every week to get food boxes ready for our partner organizations, and it’s a lively time! See what it’s all about by signing up through the link in our bio. #farmerfoodshare #foodhub #freshlocalfoodforall #foodbox #locallygrown

🥕🥬🍑 Durham Hunger Day was a hit! Resources, good hangs, and lots of food — we loved being with the Durham community. An extra big thanks to our local farmers — Pee Dee Orchards, Fresh-Pik Produce, and Wise Farms — for supplying us with beautiful and delicious peaches, collards, and carrots. Thanks to everyone who stopped by our table to say hello and take some produce home. We’ll see ya again next year! #durhamhungerday #downtowndurham #farmerfoodshare #localfood #ncagriculture

🫜 Locally grown fruits and vegetables year-round. #farmerfoodshare #foodhub #locallygrown #northcarolinaag #supportlocalfarmers

Scenes from our recent participation at the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) Anti-Hunger Policy Conference in DC and Local Food Lobby Day in Raleigh! Advocacy is a big part of our mission, and these events were important opportunities to speak about valuable programs like SNAP, WIC, Double Up Food Bucks, SUN Bucks, and FarmsSHARE — all of which benefit families facing hunger and drive economic growth for our local farmers. We’re grateful for our fellow local food advocates, including NC Food Hub Association, @carolinafarms, @american_heart, NC Local Food Council, North Carolina Farmers Market Network, No Kid Hungry, and other NC food system representatives. Actions like this make change happen in our food system! #advocacy #foodpolicy #ncagriculture #localfoodlobbyday #frac #farmerfoodshare

About 10-12 thousand acres of North Carolina farmland are devoted to cabbage production, yielding over 70 million pounds each year. While some crops are available for just a few months, this biennial Brassica is grown and harvested from May to mid-December. Some of what we have here at the food hub comes from @burchfarmsnc and Moore’s Produce Family Farm where we’re sourcing red, green, and Pointed Head cabbage this season. #cabbage #locallygrown #inseason #ncagriculture #farmerfoodshare

Back in January, we had the opportunity to work with about 10 new partner agencies through the @foodshuttle Resilience Fund Initiative. These organizations, including recovery housing programs like @healingtransitions, @emmaushouse, and TROSA, received fresh produce for dining services and community feeding initiatives. Our distribution crew took farm fresh food to locations all throughout Raleigh, Durham, and Carrboro — here’s a look at one we took to Grace AME Zion Church. While the fund came to a close at the end of April, we loved connecting with new food security outlets to get more folks access to nutritious produce! #communitypartners #farmerfoodshare #foodaccess #freshlocalfoodforall #foodsecurity

Today is World Hunger Day. It’s a reminder that too many people still face barriers to accessing fresh, healthy food — and that solutions require all of us. Every day at Farmer Foodshare, we connect local farmers with communities — creating a system where both can thrive. Your contribution today creates solutions that: 🌽 Keep food moving from farms to families 🌽 Support local farmers 🌽 Ensure continued access to fresh, healthy food Thank you for making this work possible! Give now to plant change — link in bio. Pictured: @fishel_farm @tenmothersfarm @redsqualityacre @springforestcommunity #ncagriculture #supportlocalfarms #freshlocalfoodforall #farmerfoodshare #foodhub

Two months into CSA for ALL! 2026 😊 From first pickups to all the meals y’all are making with your weekly produce haul, it’s been a tasty season so far. Thanks for sharing it with us! Photo credit for meal pics: @emjwriting @frozenfresa @nablabodywork #csaforall #communitysupportedagriculture #farmerfoodshare #foodhub #localfood

Farmers need reliable markets. Families need access to healthy food. Farmer Foodshare works every day to meet those needs. And your support right now ensures this work continues — without interruption. Help us close the critical funding gap left from loss of federal support. Join us in growing hope by donating today through the link in our bio. We can’t do this without you 💚 #supportlocalfarmers #ncagriculture #farmerfoodshare #foodhub #foodaccess freshlocalfoodforall

@dealorchards shared an update with us: Plum trees are growing tall, Goldrush apples are coming in beautifully, and baby white nectarines are getting bigger by the day! We’re one month out from summer solstice and can’t wait for all the season’s fresh fruits! #ncfarms #orchard #dealorchards #wnc #westernnc #summer #locallygrown #inseason #farmerfoodshare #gethype

Things are looking up! 🪜 Our new racking system has arrived and is already being put to good use. @cbgdraftservices came back to help with the install, and we’re glad to be making the most of our new cooler space, especially with high season right around the corner! Big love to our food hub distribution crew for lifting so many metal beams 💪 #levelingup #foodhub #cbgdraftservices #durhamnc #highseason

Supporters like you help Farmer Foodshare connect farmers, food, and community — even as we work to replace lost federal funding. Because of this momentum: 🍇 Farmers continue selling their produce 🍇 Food boxes still reach families 🍇 Our work keeps moving forward But there’s still a gap to close — and every gift helps us get closer to sustaining NC farmers and making fresh, local food accessible for ALL! Donate today to get us to our $50,000 goal! www.farmerfoodshare.org/donate/ #freshlocalfoodforall #supportlocalfarmers #foodhub #farmerfoodshare #foodsecurity

We talked about peas in last month’s newsletter, about how the pea plant family (Fabaceae) is 20,000-species strong, how they’re great companion plants, and how springtime in NC means a number of varietals are ripe for the picking. Sure enough, we spotted a few of these loopy legumes on the Piedmont Farm Tour a few weeks ago at @gardenatspringforest and @urbancommunityagrinomics at Catawba Trail Farm. AND they’ve finally reached our availability — 🫛 Certified Organic Garden Peas from Cottle Organics and 🫛 Sugar Snap Peas from Wise Farms. Sign up for our newsletter in our bio to see what we're highlighting this month. #peas #spring #inseason #locallygrown #twopeasinapod #piedmontfarmtour

6 days. 900 miles. 1 food system. In March, our Executive Director, Athan, embarked on a statewide journey to visit farmer and food hub partners throughout North Carolina, braving high winds, snowfall, and winding mountain roads to listen, learn, and connect — each one so unique and so dedicated to meeting their community’s needs. Thank you, all, for your time, hospitality, expertise, and everything you do for our food system! @livelyorchards @mwu4yf Rhodes Berry Farm @growinghighpoint Moss Farms @brwia @foothillsfoodhub @freshlist @jacksonfarmingcompany Old Mountain Berry Patch @peedeeorchards @perryloweorchards @sandhills_aginnovation_center @tractor.food.and.farms #foodhub #northcarolina #supportlocalfarmers #localagriculture #foodsystem

We’d like to recognize one our sponsors today, Toast.org, whose generosity enables us to help NC farmers grow their businesses and get fresh, local food to communities experiencing hunger. Community support is a powerful thing! To top it all off, a team of volunteers joined us for a box pack last month, prepping hundreds of food boxes and thousands of pounds of nutritious produce for distribution. We couldn’t do our work without supporters like Toast.org, and we’re grateful have them as partners in fulfilling our mission. Thanks, y’all! 💙 @toasttab @lifeattoast @steph_toasting_the_most #freshlocalfoodforall #farmerfoodshare #toast.org #foodaccess #foodsecurity #antihunger #hungerrelief #toasttab #lifeattoast

About 174,505 people in Durham, Orange, and Wake counties (nearly 10%) live with food insecurity, but countless food banks, food pantries, community fridges, food hubs, and grassroots food redistribution efforts ensure everyone eats. We're highlighting some resources and partner organizations working to feed the community. Please share! NC SEARCH ENGINES: • End Hunger Durham • @foodbankcenc • @feedingthecarolinas •NC 2-1-1 CURRENT PARTNERS with distribution programs in the Triangle: • @emanuelfoodpantry • @thewecf Free Thursday Market with @candornc • @table_nc • @urbancommunityagrinomics • @porchhillsborough • @dukemed_root_causes • @helpcenternc In difficult times, we nourish our community together. Want to help? Get involved at Farmer Foodshare or one of the organizations listed above by volunteering, donating, or sharing resources. Link in bio for more information. #foodaccess #foodsecurity #foodinsecurity #farmerfoodshare #nonprofit #foodhub #freshlocalfood #freshlocalfoodforall #durhamnc #trianglenc #food #essentialservices #resources #community #northcarolina

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