We are excited and grateful for our brand spankin’ new partnership with Larry’s Beans! Come out to The Morning Times Market tomorrow night for some fresh, cold brew and to learn more about the wonderful organic, shade-grown, fair trade, Raleigh based friend of ours!
Posted on March 1st, 2012
Below is a visualization of where we stand now and the outcomes we are committed to achieving.
Posted on February 27th, 2012
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We couldn’t be more excited to announce our partnership with A.B. Combs Elementary! A.B. Combs has been recognized as the Number 1 Magnet School in America and has pioneered an educational program that is dedicated to teaching basic leadership principals to all students. The result of said leadership program is high and sustained test scores, friendly, well-rounded and respectful students, an engaged staff and an award winning Principal. Stay tuned to learn more about our initiatives with this amazing school!
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Posted on February 14th, 2012
Below is a timeline of Sixth Sun’s projects for the upcoming year. We’re excited to get to work on all of these great projects and events, and we hope you’re excited about them, too. If you’d like to get involved, visit our contribute page, and let us know how you’d like to help out. Let’s make 2012 a great year to combat food and energy insecurity among Raleigh’s vulnerable populations.
Posted on February 4th, 2012
The Healthy Food Financing Innitiative (HFFI) is a proposed program to address food deserts throughout the nation by expanding the availability of nutritious food sources to low-income communities.
What is a food desert?
“The HFFI working group defines a food desert as a low-income census tract where a substantial number or share of residents has low access to a supermarket or large grocery store:
To qualify as a ‘low-income community,’ a census tract must have either: 1) a poverty rate of 20 percent or higher, OR 2) a median family income at or below 80 percent of the area’s median family income;
To qualify as a ‘low-access community,’ at least 500 people and/or at least 33 percent of the census tract’s population must reside more than one mile from a supermarket or large grocery store (for rural census tracts, the distance is more than 10 miles).”
source: http://www.ers.usda.gov/data/fooddesert/about.html
Above is a map of Raleigh’s food deserts taken from an interactive tool called the Food Desert Locator. The picture links to the Food Desert Locator website, where you can enter your address to see how food prevalent food deserts are in your area. We encourage you to visit the site to learn more about this pressing issue.
Posted on January 31st, 2012
This a thought provoking graph that shows community participation in our local food system and how we are working to increase that level over the next 20 years.
-White, Erin “The Architect and The Local Food System”
