By Lucille Patterson Urban Community AgriNomics had the pleasure of tasting wonderful fresh fruits compliments of Ungraded Produce. I’m writing to say how much UCAN, and all the volunteers, enjoyed the recent donation on our We Can! Workday. Everyone was pleased with the quality of the apples, oranges, and pears they provided. To Courtney Bell, …
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By Former Secretary Derek Haynes I can remember the beginning of Urban Community AgriNomics, and our speaking of the visions and future of our work. Our meetings, our seeing prospective areas, and now our having actual land we are actually building on! To see the Catawba Trail Farm (CTF) become a reality after being a dream is simply astonishing! …
by Chris Fowler Urban Community AgriNomics (UCAN) and Triangle Land Conservancy (TLC) entered into a User License Agreement on November 16, 2017 to activate an old farmstead on TLC’s Snow Hill IV conservation property in northern Durham County. UCAN is creating the Catawba Trail Farm in Durham as an aspiring agricultural center. Initial steps will …
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By Shanell Davis Hello, my name is Shanell. I was invited to the UCAN MLK Project through a friend and co-worker, Lucille Patterson. When I arrived at the location, it was very cold. Mrs. Patterson and other helpers had snacks, fresh fruits, water, coffee, and energy drinks. Then, Mrs. Patterson encouraged me to go look …
A Resounding “We Can!” By Kyle Kramer, Volunteer The ground was frozen solid when we showed up at the Catawba Trail Farm site early in the morning on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to help with building the new UCAN community garden. The farm site is hidden a few hundred feet back along the old …
By Executive Director, Delphine Sellars There is nothing like anticipation, waiting and time. Your imagination gives way to all of the positive things that could happen. That is if you are a positive person such as I. You consider how others will or will not react. Oh, anticipation! Then there is the reality. A reality …