This Feeds Me Hungry Musings of a Gastronomic Gypsy – NC-based freelance writer Victoria Bouloubasis

Two years ago, the group politely declined this journalist’s request for an interview in order to focus on their mission. At the time, you happened upon them only by accident or by word of mouth. Sometimes you would bump into them in public spaces, like at last year’s NAACP Historic Thousands on Jones Street march [...]

Farmer Foodshare is a local nonprofit dedicated to providing fresh food to families at risk for hunger through direct purchasing from farmers through the organization and community consumers. Farmer Foodshare also collaborates with other organizations to create a healthy food and economic system in the fight to eradicate poverty. North Carolina ranks among the top ten [...]

More than 20,000 residents live in the 300 blocks of Northeast Central Durham. It’s also an area that has been labeled a food desert, with many of its residents lacking access to fresh food. This week’s story, Hungry for choices: Fresh food finds its way to Northeast Central Durham, details plans made by the community [...]

An oasis in a food desert TROSA Grocery opens in East Durham by Victoria Bouloubasis Cornbread smeared with sweet orange marmalade and live music helped mark a celebration in East Durham last week as residents welcomed the first grocery store to open in the neighborhood in at least 50 years. TROSA, the Durham-based nonprofit, opened [...]