Come to the Table

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Press Release: Come to the Table to Relieve Hunger and Support Local Farms - Piedmont Conference

January 10, 2013
The Come to the Table Project will present its fourth regional conference series on how people of faith can relieve hunger and support local agriculture in North Carolina. A project of the Rural Advancement Foundation (RAFI-USA) and the NC Council of Churches, this daylong conference will be held at the Elliott University Center at UNC-Greensboro on Tuesday, February 19th, 8:30am – 5pm.
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Moore County Church Serves as Gathering Site for Local Food Business

July 31, 2012
West End is one of several sites that offers its space for delivery and distribution in exchange for a small percentage of the co-op's profits, but according to Peggy and Ed, the church's annual income of $3,500 from serving as a host site doesn't nearly reflect the importance of its three-year partnership with SF2T.
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Robersonville Packing Company: Family-Owned Meat Packing Business Starts Selling Vegetables through EBT

June 15, 2012
Danny and Jackie Peed have been in the business of slaughtering, processing, and distributing eastern North Carolina meat for over thirty years. But what they’re most excited about are their new vegetable boxes. In the spring of 2011, the Peeds received a small grant from RAFI’s Tobacco Communities Reinvestment Fund to purchase equipment that would allow them to sort and process produce from local farmers and deliver low-cost produce boxes to homes throughout northeastern North Carolina.
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The Farm as Ministry: Reverend McNair on Why His Church Started a Farmer Entrepreneurship Program

June 5, 2012
Reverend Eddie McNair, of New Life Agribusiness Center, points out future pastureland for chicken, hogs, and sheep.It’s not too common that someone moves back to northeastern North Carolina to farm. And it’s even more unusual when instead of growing the region’s big crops of cotton, peanuts, soybeans, wheat, and tobacco, he or she starts to grow produce with their congregation for a retail market.
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