GrowFood Carolina

The following places are selling or serving GrowFood Carolina produce. Ask for what’s on the menu from GrowFood Carolina

Whole Foods Mt Pleasant
Piggly Wiggly
The Vegetable Bin
HUSK
17 North Roadside Kitchen
FIG
Slightly North of Broad
Heart Wood Fire Kitchen
Brick House Kitchen
39 Rue De Jean
Hucks Lowcountry Table
Cru Cafe and Catering
Carter’s Kitchen
Two Boroughs Larder
Evo
Tristan
The Macintosh
Next Door
Peninsula Grill
Martha Lou’s Kitchen
Whisk
Bacco
Baguette Magic
Butcher & Bee
Carolina Yacht Club
Citrus To Go
Cork
Epicure Catering
FISH
Five Loaves
Heirloom Eats
McCrady’s
Millgrove Farms Market
Sugar Bake Shop
Roti Rolls
Ted’s Butcher Block
Xia Bao Biscuit
Cypress Lowcountry Grill
Charleston Bay Gourmet
Hominy Grill
WildFlour Pastry
King of Pops
The Ocean Room
The Glass Onion
Verde
Green Wave Smoothies
Uproot Brewery
The Co-Op
Bert’s Market
Old Villiage Post House
Home Team BBQ
The Gin Joint
Duvall Catering
Charleston Bay Gourmet
ACME Lowcountry Cantina
Charleston Pickle Co.
High Cotton
Poogan’s Porch
Sprout
Crosby’s Seafood
Fat Hen

Enjoy!

Do you want more information on food hubs? I know you do. USDA has a lot of information that they have gathered. Check it out.

Did you know that the current model of agriculture emits a third of the world’s greenhouse gases? It is possible to cut greenhouse gas emissions through implementing more sustainable agriculture practices across the world, according to this WSJ blog post.

The Group of 20 industrialized countries and the FAO are beginning to examine ways of moving away from our industrialized methods of mass cultivation. “The present paradigm of intensive crop production cannot meet the challenges of the new millennium,” said the FAO in this new report.

Check it out.

When there are enough people on the land to use it but not enough to husband it, then the wildness of the soil that we call fertility begins to diminish, and the soil itself begins to flee from us in water and wind.

-Wendell Berry, “Getting Along With Nature,” Home Economics, 1987

The local food movement has been called an elitist movement by many people who are self-interested and/or uninformed. Here is a great blog post by Eric Schlosser, author of “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal” and a co-producer of the Oscar-nominated documentary “Food, Inc.” He helps clarify the motivation behind the name-calling, and why the sustainable food movement will serve as a solution to the low-income health crisis in America.

“It is the poor and working people who need a new, sustainable food system more than anyone else. They live in the most polluted neighborhoods. They are exposed to the worst toxic chemicals on the job. They are sold the unhealthiest foods and can least afford the medical problems that result. st polluted neighborhoods. They are exposed to the worst toxic chemicals on the job. They are sold the unhealthiest foods and can least afford the medical problems that result.”

A new federal study concludes that regional food hubs (that’s GrowFood!) are emerging nationally as important economic models for sustainable food economies. According to the study, the average food hub has annual sales of nearly $1 million and creates about 13 jobs.

Folks who are doing what we are doing in Vermont and New Hampshire are pretty excited about this report. We are pretty excited as well!

Note: check out the map on page 13. There is no food hub identified in SC. That’s about to change…

Stop by our booth today!

Check out today’s editorial in the Post and Courier about GrowFood Carolina.

Here is some good news from Mark Bittman on sustainable agriculture. So, today is a hopeful day, not just because of this good news, but also because it is raining.

Big thanks to Stanley Gruber for taking us on a tour of his farm and for the kale and sweet onions!

As advocates for sustainable agriculture, we frequently hear that industrial farming is needed to feed the world. In this NY Times blog post, Mark Bittman notes that 90 percent of the corn crop grown in America is used for either ethanol (40 percent) or animal feed (50 percent). It turns out that we aren’t feeding the world through our current agricultural model.  I encourage you to read this commentary that suggests that industrial agriculture may not be the silver bullet for feeding the world.

It looks like GrowFood Carolina is on the right track to creating a more resilient Lowcountry by enabling sustainably farmed products to enter our local markets.