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For two weeks, WSM asked shoppers to donate bags of fresh produce for neighbors in need. More than 2,500 shoppers responded with a resounding, “YES!” The food campaign yielded $31,000 in donations, which exceeded our ambitious goal of 1,000 bags of produce. The donated produce will go to PORCH’s Food for Families program, which provides a week’s worth of groceries to local families at risk for hunger.

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Starting today, WSM shoppers can donate bags of fresh produce and eggs to PORCH, a local hunger relief organization. The food campaign is part of WSM’s Community Food Partnerships. The goal of the program is to offer ways to participate that are meaningful for shoppers who value fresh healthy food. For the PORCH campaign, shoppers can donate bags of fresh produce for $30.

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Cindy and John Soehner are the farmers behind Eco Farm, 23 acres west of Carrboro. With the help of their children, they produce year-round produce, shiitakes and strawberries, flowers, eggs,…
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These photos are from our visit to Cedar Grove Windy Hill Farm, during the 2013 Piedmont Farm Tour. There’s a ton of stuff to see at this diverse family farm….
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You may not see many bluebirds at Bluebird Meadows this year [2009]. Alice and Stuart White are just now making their bluebird boxes, hoping the birds will notice and move…
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Elaina Kenyon began spinning wool into yarn in graduate school. She’d grown up on a dairy and meat farm, but didn’t want exactly that life for herself. But when a…
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One hundred years ago, before fast transportation, cold storage, and modern grocery stores, farmers grew not one commodity crop but a little of everything. Even a dairy farm had a…
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