Contact
Shorlette AmmonsOutreach Coordinator, Community-Based Food Systems
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Small Farm Unit
201 Stevens Mill Road
Goldsboro, NC 27530
919-288-0192
sammonss@ncat.edu
See Also
For additional information, please visit the Produce Ped'lers website.
From The News & Observer, August 23, 2012: "Goldsboro rickshaws bring produce to poor neighborhoods"
Other CBFS Efforts
Rebuilding Food System Infrastructure and Supply Chains for Local Foods
Consumer Education
Community and Youth Engagement
- Wayne Food Initiative
- Students Working for an Agricultural Revolutionary Movement (SWARM) and Produce Ped'lers
- Discover Ag
- FoodCorps
- Food Youth Initiative
- 4-H Sustainable Agriculture Curriculum
New Farmer Training
- Bringing New Farmers to the Table
- Breeze Farm
Institutional Capacity-Building for Food Systems Work
Policy Development
Produce Ped'lers
Produce Ped'lers makes fresh, locally grown produce accessible AND affordable! Produce Ped'lers delivers fresh produce from local farmers to Goldsboro communities who often don't have easy, affordable access to fresh foods.
How We Started
Produce Ped'lers began thanks to grant support from the USDA's Farmer's Market Promotion Program, the vision of Goldsboro community leaders, including youth, and the Center for Environmental Food Systems.
We believe that good, transformative community work merges the best of youth organizing, new innovation and traditional ways with environmental justice and green economies to provide access to healthy food and create meaningful work to support poor and rural communities. Our hope is that Produce Ped'lers will emerge as one of many models in Eastern NC that does just that.
Our Approach
The Produce Ped'lers are a part of SWARM, Students Working for an Agricultural Revolutionary Movement. We are young food activists and entrepreneurs who are working to transform our local food system by creating meaningful job opportunities for young people, building social justice leadership among youth and providing youth with leadership and food-based entrepreneurial skill development.
We're based in Goldsboro, NC in Wayne County, the fifth-largest agricultural county in the state, which is mostly rural. Our work is deeply rooted in the traditions of collective work, growing food, being stewards of the land and southern people-of-color-led social justice movements.
*Photos courtesy of www.newsobserver.com