Blog Posts!

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How does your garden grow?

by Rhonda Michael A spring walk with my husband to visit the Indian Trading Path turned into the discovery of an intimate, community garden positioned...

UCAN Spotlight | Volunteering is Cool

Dave Milkereit A volunteer is a person who freely offers to take part in an enterprise or undertake a task. Volunteering is important as it...

UCAN Spotlight – Ms. Amatullah Abdul-Karim

The Oldest Plot Owner Gardening is a way to engage people of all age groups. Out at the Catawba Trail Farm, we come together not...

The Next Generation – part two

UCAN Spotlight – Quan Pettiford Catawba Trail Farm was established to improve the health and wellness of our community. Urban Community AgriNomics (UCAN) provides education...

The Next Generation – part one

UCAN Spotlight – Quinton M. Pettiford With the increasing interest in science and nutrition education, many schools and youth organizations in the United States are...

UCAN Spotlight – The Power of Gardening

One of the things about a community garden is the fact that there are as many growing methods and gardening styles as there are gardeners...

Recipes for Foodshare

As UCAN continues to partner with Farmers Foodshare with providing fresh locally grown produce to the community we thought it would be beneficial to provide...