Food Related Goodness in Greensboro
Deep Roots
Greensboro’s Natural Food Cooperative! One of their primary goals is to provide the community with access to locally produced natural foods and products.
Food Not Bombs
Food that would otherwise be thrown away is donated and prepared by volunteers to serve anyone who is hungry. Meals are mostly vegetarian and organic and prepared in The HIVE community center. Meals served on Monday’s in front of the downtown library at 6pm and Thursdays at the HIVE at 6pm. Food pantry on Fridays at 4-6pm
Contact: Melissa Cominole
Global to Greensboro
A network, based out of Guilford College’s Bonner Center for Community Learning, to increase food security for Greensboro’s immigrant and refugee populations through gardening and community gardening initiatives.
Contact: 336.316.2456
Greensboro Curb Farmer’s Market
One of the oldest farmers markets in North Carolina. It is a festive and friendly place where shoppers stop and chat with friends and buy fresh fruits and vegetables directly from the farmers who grow them.
Nimby Farms
Organic vegetables and herbs.
Contact: 336.274.7238
Slow Food Piedmont
They are working to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions, and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world. They have a listserv and ways to engage in local events.
Urban Harvest
A nonprofit community organization dedicated to local urban food production, distribution and education, employing the principles of sustainability and permaculture, accessible to all citizens. They produce food within the city limits of Greensboro on unused city property and on private land as a network of micro eco-farms. They aim to provide education, resources and skill-sharing to low-income families and at-risk youth about the importance of fresh locally grown food and the environmental and health impacts of local economies.
Weatherhand Farm
“Naturally Grown, Locally Known.” Vegetables, cut flowers, and pasture raised chicken
Contact: 336.695.4800
Health and Wellness Businesses in or around Greensboro
Backyard Remedies
A homegrown herbal company from the piedmont of North Carolina. They have been working with medicinal plants, gardening/farming, teaching and making plant medicine since 2002. They are able to do phone consultations and mail herbs/tinctures to you.
The Center for Healing and Wellness
A wholistic community practice offering services in individual counseling, family therapy, and group counseling. They sponsor Camp Pegasus, a therapeutic camp for young people; and Family Reconciliation, a program that combines conflict resolution and other techniques to help families cope with chronic disagreement. Recognize and acknowledges the impact of poverty and racism on individuals health and healing, and they seek to help individuals develop skills and coping strategies to lead happy lives. 1317 Oak Street. Greensboro
Contact: 336.691.1620
Chapel Hill Women’s Birth and Wellness Center
Family-centered maternity care by Certified Nurse-Midwives available 24/7, Gynecological & well-woman care for all ages, safe & nurturing care in a homelike setting without unnecessary intervention.
The Lotus Center
Offers acupuncture and other traditional oriental medical treatments such as moxibustion, herbal compounds, and nutritional advice. Oriental medicine is holistic in nature, gentle in practice, and treats the manifestation of health problems as well as the root or the underlying problem.
Michele Collins Herbalist
Michele Collins, RH (AHG), MPH is a trained clinical herbalist who uses Chinese & Indian traditions to treat the whole person, using directed, individual strategies toward balance and health.
Contact: 336.624.6727
Awesome Non-Profits in and around Greensboro
Center for New North Carolinians
A non profit organization through the University of North Carolina-Greensboro whose initiatives and projects are focused on helping refugees and immigrants gain access to health care and other need through programs such as Thriving at Three, AmeriCorps ACCESS project, and their interpreter bank.
Elsewhere Artist Collective
A non-profit investigating the collaborative interplay between creative producers, practices, and products through the continuous transformation of an immense collection of American cultural surplus into an experimental museum. Elsewhere’s collection, amassed from 1939-1997 by one woman and housed within her three-story former store.
Interactive Resource Center
A day shelter for homeless folks, equipped with things like showers and washer/dryer and help for finding housing and jobs. A grassroots center that began with the WE! Program (Winter Emergency Program).
Contact: 336.332.0824
The Stone House
A Center for Spiritual Life and Strategic Action that focuses on spiritual practices, strategic curriculum for social justice, and being in line with sustainable living through organic farming, serving local food, and low impact energy efficient building.
Sustainable Greensboro
Envisioning residents, neighborhoods, business, institutions, and governments working together to build, create, and promote sustainability.
Women’s Resource Center
Helps women to navigate life’s hurdles, to access community services, to develop new skill sets, to move lives forward.
Cool Organizations in Greensboro and Beyond
Dragonfly Business Center
Working to increase the well-being of families by showing women how to become self-sufficient through job readiness training, job training, career selection, or starting small home businesses.
Figaro Salon
Offers stylish haircuts, using products that have natural ingredients.
Contact: 336.275.660
