Contact
Tes Thraves
Community-Based Food Systems
Horticultural Science
Extension Associate
226 Kilgore Hall, Box 7609
NCSU Campus
Raleigh, NC 27695
(919) 619-8897
tes_thraves@ncsu.edu
More Information
For additional contacts and information,
please visit the Wayne Food Initiative Web site.
Other CBFS Efforts
Project Incubation
- NC Choices
- Farmhand Foods
- Wayne Food Initiative
- RTI-CSA
Outreach & Education
- Farm to Fork Statewide Initiative
- N.C. Food System Directory
- SARE PDP Community-Based Food System Trainings
- Sustainable Local Foods Advisory Council
Partnerships
See Also
- "Goodness Grows Behind the Library," by Tonya Moore
Wayne Food Initiative
Aided by a planning grant to the Center for Environmental Farming Systems from the Office of Extension and Engagement at N.C. State University, diverse institutions and organizations, government and private, for-profit and nonprofit, began meeting in the fall of 2007 to develop a Wayne County sustainable, local foods initiative. From that effort, Wayne Food Initiative (WFI) is a now a collaboration of individuals and organizations based in Goldsboro and the larger Wayne County area who seek to build a sound food system that increases the access of fair and affordable food.
Because WFI is committed to working from its partner strengths, efforts are geared towards increasing the capacity of each partner organization’s work through collective support as well as collectively leveraging partner organization resources in creating new, collaborative actions. WFI work always focuses on youth and increasing access to good food, and current partner projects include
- the Wayne County Public Library Community Gardening Program,
- Dilliard Academy School Market/Farm and Growing Curriculum and
- Wayne County Health Department Farmers’ Market,
plus collaborative WFI projects
(Each link above opens in a new window.)
Southeastern Youth Food Activist Summit (SYFAS)
In January 2010, Students Working for an Agriculture Revolutionary Movement (SWARM) attended the Southeastern Youth Food Activist Summit (SYFAS) in Chapel Hill, N.C. SYFAS is cosponsored by FLO Food at UNC-Chapel Hill and the Real Food Challenge, a national student organization focused on getting local, sustainable foods into university campuses. This year, high school students were encouraged to attend SYFAS, so SWARM made its first "university conference" outing. SWARM is the Wayne Food Initiative's emerging leaders program for youth ages 16-19, and is coordinated through a CEFS partnership with WFI. Students from multiple Goldsboro high schools currently make up the SWARM cadre.
Photos from SYFAS 2010:
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