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3 Mar, 2022

A new local food distribution center in west Charlotte aims to change lives

By Nikki|2022-03-22T19:41:41+00:00March 3, 2022|Comments Off on A new local food distribution center in west Charlotte aims to change lives

By Ashley Mahoney | March 3, 2022

Chris Peake is coming back to the neighborhood he grew up in to rewrite the narrative around food insecurity.

Peake was raised across the street from 511 S. Hoskins Rd., the site where Carolina Farm Trust, a nonprofit working to strengthen local food systems, will develop their local foods distribution and production center in west Charlotte.

“I used to clean the parking lot right there where Mr. Quick is,” Peake told me.
He recalled seeing grocery stores leave the Thomasboro-Hoskins neighborhood over the years, making fresh and nutritious food in the neighborhood hard to find.

Why it matters: Food insecurity in west Charlotte has been an issue for decades, and a lack of access to healthy food has

28 Feb, 2022

Carolina Farm Trust Facility Aims to Fill Void in West Charlotte

By Nikki|2022-03-22T19:38:16+00:00February 28, 2022|Comments Off on Carolina Farm Trust Facility Aims to Fill Void in West Charlotte

Distribution center will include butchery, grocery store, teaching kitchen and event space

Nikolai Mather

Carolina Farm Trust CEO Zack Wyatt kicks our interview off with a simple phrase: “Every major geopolitical issue we have is coming from the dirt, in one fashion or another.”

In some ways, one could argue that his nonprofit’s latest project, a local food production and distribution center in west Charlotte’s Thomasboro-Hoskins neighborhood, worked in reverse. After all, it was due to COVID (a geopolitical issue) that city leaders were able to see the need for this project, allowing Carolina Farm Trust to secure the funding needed for the warehouse, located on what is currently just an abandoned lot (the dirt).

Wyatt says a global pandemic is, for many, what it took

17 Feb, 2022

Planned grocery store hopes to solve west Charlotte’s ‘food desert’

By Nikki|2022-03-22T19:32:20+00:00February 17, 2022|Comments Off on Planned grocery store hopes to solve west Charlotte’s ‘food desert’

February 17, 2022 at 5:56 pm EST

By Anthony Kustura, wsoctv.com

CHARLOTTE — An old egg production plant will soon be transformed into a grocery store and food distribution center in a west Charlotte neighborhood now considered a food desert.

Carolina Farm Trust, a nonprofit aimed at tackling food insecurity, has secured a 25,000-square-foot space in the 500 block of South Hoskins Road near Brookshire Boulevard as the site for its retail endeavor.

The neighborhood where the store will reside in west Charlotte is known to have a shortage of sources for fresh food — there are no official grocery stores within a mile radius of the area.

“There’s never been a grocery store over here,” said Jean

14 Feb, 2022

A west Charlotte food distribution center is set to receive $1.5M in city funding

By Nikki|2022-03-22T19:33:05+00:00February 14, 2022|Comments Off on A west Charlotte food distribution center is set to receive $1.5M in city funding

facility mock up WFAE | By Nick de la Canal
Published February 14, 2022 at 5:46 AM EST

What’s now a vacant warehouse off Interstate 85 near Brookshire Boulevard in Charlotte could soon become a bustling food market and distribution center with a rooftop garden, test kitchen, meat processing facility and a grocery store.

The nonprofit Carolina Farm Trust is developing plans for the facility at 511 South Hoskins Road. The site includes 25,000 square feet of existing building space and 60,000 square feet of green space.

The nonprofit already partners with many local farmers, helping them with land, equipment and other farming essentials. The group also purchases many locally produced foods to distribute to people in need, as well as local nonprofits, food trucks and restaurants operating in underserved areas of Mecklenburg County.

Carolina Farm Trust’s president and CEO, Zack Wyatt, said the new center

9 Feb, 2022

Food distribution center being built in west Charlotte food desert

By Nikki|2022-03-22T19:29:42+00:00February 9, 2022|Comments Off on Food distribution center being built in west Charlotte food desert

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2 Feb, 2022

Carolina Farm Trust Providing Access to Fresh Food

By Nikki|2022-03-22T19:34:10+00:00February 2, 2022|Comments Off on Carolina Farm Trust Providing Access to Fresh Food

By Jason Huber
February 02, 2022 at 6:06 pm EST

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QC Life) – To make sure people in West Charlotte have easier access to fresh, healthy food, Carolina Farm Trust is working to open a distribution center.

It will be off of Hoskins Road, near Rozzelles Ferry Road and Interstate 85.

According to the organization, just three percent of homes in that area are within a half-mile of a full-service, chain grocery store.

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6 Apr, 2020

Eating healthy in a food desert: Mecklenburg leaders seek new solutions

By CarolinaFarmTrust|2022-03-09T17:07:49+00:00April 6, 2020|Comments Off on Eating healthy in a food desert: Mecklenburg leaders seek new solutions

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Youth working at the Seeds of Change Urban Farm, a quarter-acre farm in the West Boulevard Corridor where neighbors grow fresh, healthy food for the community – a response to the lack of grocery stores in their neighborhoods. Photo courtesy Rickey Hall

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Mecklenburg County leaders are trying to find solutions for a worsening food crisis in the county’s poorest neighborhoods.

Nearly 15 percent of the county’s population lives in what the U.S. Department of Agriculture calls food deserts — low-income communities where most residents don’t have access to a full-service grocery store or supermarket carrying nutritious food. That figure exceeds the national average of 11 percent and North Carolina’s statewide average of 13 percent.

“Population density probably has a lot to do with” the higher

29 Jan, 2020

Brandbuilders Podcast with Zack Wyatt and Tia Wackerhagen

By CarolinaFarmTrust|2020-01-29T22:18:35+00:00January 29, 2020|Comments Off on Brandbuilders Podcast with Zack Wyatt and Tia Wackerhagen

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As our metropolitan areas grow, they gobble up the farmland that used to feed them. Our next guests are trying to keep the food you eat local, by supporting the agriculture that can keep farmers growing when cities expand. Zack Wyatt and Tia Wackerhagen work with Carolina Farm Trust, whose goal is to help small, local farmers stay in the business of bringing food to your table.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

7 Jan, 2020

Eric Davis, North Carolina State Board of Education, Chair

By CarolinaFarmTrust|2020-01-22T00:28:15+00:00January 7, 2020|Comments Off on Eric Davis, North Carolina State Board of Education, Chair

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Carolina Business Review

Catch our executive director, Zack Wyatt, on a recent episode of Carolina Business Review.

Zack Wyatt, Carolina Farm Trust

Guests from recent dialogues include (top left) Peter Gwaltney – NC Bankers, Linda Brown – Asheboro Chamber, Larry Appel – Fresh Market CEO, Zack Wyatt – Carolina Farm Trust, Joe Waters – Capita, Eric Davis – NC Board of Ed. Chair, Bernie Mazyck – SC Asso. of Community Dev., Catherine Truitt – Western Governors Univ., Brian Etheridge – Leadership NC and Chris William.

12 Dec, 2019

Carolina Farm Trust Secures Seed Funding for The Urban Farm at Aldersgate

By CarolinaFarmTrust|2022-03-09T17:08:14+00:00December 12, 2019|Comments Off on Carolina Farm Trust Secures Seed Funding for The Urban Farm at Aldersgate

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]CHARLOTTE, NC, December 12, 2019: Carolina Farm Trust (CFT), a Charlotte based non-profit focused on rebuilding the regional food system from production to consumption, has received seed funding from Foundation For The Carolinas, Carver Pressley, Realtors, and other Corporate Donors for The Urban Farm at Aldersgate, located in east Charlotte.

Leased from the Aldersgate Retirement Community in April of 2018, the site will cultivate a variety of crops that meet the needs of the immediate community. Local residents will contribute, through feedback sessions with the farm, to diversified and sustainably grown produce, beginning in the spring of 2020.

“We feel the Carolina Farm Trust is an organization on the forefront of addressing food security, food access and eliminating the “class-system” of food in the Charlotte area. We are thrilled The Urban Farm at Aldersgate is coming to life,” said Suzanne Pugh, CEO of the Aldersgate Retirement Community.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_single_image image=”4339″ img_size=”full” onclick=”link_image”

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