When you shop for meat and vegetables at Lowes Foods, there’s a good chance the label will tell you if it came from a local farmer.
A new program allows Winston-Salem-based Lowes Foods to buy fresh produce and meats directly from more than 100 small farms in North Carolina. N.C. Growing Together is facilitating the partnership between the N.C. State University Cooperative Extension and local food hubs. N.C. Growing Together is a part of the Center for Environmental Farming Systems at NCSU.
“We’re trying to facilitate all kinds of connections,” says Rebecca Dunning, N.C. Growing Together's program coordinator. “A food hub might be a producer or a meet aggregator, so food hub has an elastic meaning.”
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