Farm Stand at Aldersgate
Stop by our farm stand every Thursday between 5 – 8pm to grab some fresh produce for dinner! Your SNAP dollars will be doubled as well!
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Mar, 2023
9
Mar, 2023
Night At The Museum
Night At The Museum
This is the 4th Annual Night At The Museum presented by Carolina Farm Trust, and quickly becoming a highlight of the Spring Season for most. The event features local chefs and mixologists, who master their craft with food sourced from urban farms around the Carolinas. Purchasing a ticket for this event not only guarantees you delicious food and drinks, but an opportunity to gather amongst fellow humanitarians and supporters of the sustainability initiative that is catching fire within the United States.
All who join us on this night has made a physical pledge, in one way or another, to the mission of sustainable and equitable food production. At Carolina Farm Trust, we envision thriving farms, healthy people, and communities intimately connected to their food and where it comes from. With the purchase of your Night At The Museum ticket, you’re allowing us […]
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Jun, 2021
Developing your personal giving story
Corey Easterday had always been involved in the nonprofit world but when he moved to the Queen City, he ached to connect with the social good community and later found that his support for Carolina Farm Trust was more than a one-time donation.
Corey Easterday did not always grow up having everything at his disposal. In fact, his reality was the opposite. Born and raised in northeast Ohio, he wouldn’t describe himself as growing up poor, but it did not take away from the fact that his family faced financial hardships throughout his life.
“My family grew up in a poverty situation for a lot of my formative years, and it was […]
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Apr, 2021
Farmer Spotlight: Meet Christina Benton – A farmer whose purpose is to improve food access
Spring brings light and hope, a much-needed sentiment after last year’s gloomy anxiousness for our health and well-being of our loved ones, as well as the threatening worries of our country’s economic condition.
Many of us struggled as we saw, or even experienced first-hand, the already unjust structures of our current food system hitting economically distressed communities, low-income households, and Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color with the hardest blow.
But, just as spring brings light, there are also luminaries who shed the light of kindness when it’s most needed.
When you meet Christina Benton, you meet a farmer who not only grows a traditional market farm but goes beyond to think about who might receive her produce on the other end. Her […]
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Aug, 2020
Partnership Announcement: The Urban Farm at Aldersgate
We are thrilled and honored to announce a new partnership at the Urban Farm at Aldersgate. Wisdom and Cherie Jzar, founders and owners of Deep Roots CPS Farm, will manage the Urban Farm at Aldersgate over the next 6 months as we develop a longer-term transition plan. Under Wisdom and Cherie’s mentorship, Sam Hargrove will help manage the daily operations of the farm.
Carolina Farm Trust and Deep Roots CPS Farm share the goal of ensuring equitable access to healthy, fresh, and affordable foods. The alignment of our work will undoubtedly potentiate the multitude of benefits that the Urban Farm can bring to Charlotte’s East Side. In addition, we at Carolina Farm Trust are excited to support Wisdom and Cherie as they usher in Sam as a Black farmer working in urban agriculture.
Wisdom and Cherie bring to the farm […]
