SS Programs
AIR QUALITY
- Promoting innovative transportation and renewable energy projects to reduce emissions
AWARENESS & EDUCATION
- Bringing information about sustainable practices to the region
LOCAL FOOD & CULTURE
- Promoting local agriculture and cultural connections
GREEN BUSINESS
- Gaining commitment from local businesses to become more sustainable
GREEN LIVING & DESIGN
- Promoting sustainable living, design and construction practices
GREEN GROWTH
- Promoting coordinated and cooperative green growth planning
RECYCLING
- Promoting solid waste reduction, reuse and recycling
Local Food and culture Program
Promoting local agriculture and cultural connections
Projects
CSA CONSUMER DEMAND SURVEY
In order to gauge the interest and preferences of residents regarding participation in Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) groups, Sustainable Sandhills has created a short online survey. LINK TO THE SURVEY. Please feel free to forward this link to your friends and neighbors who are interested in supporting local farmers who are producing local food!
More information about the objectives and contributors to the survey.
The results of the survey will be shared with both consumers and farmers. The results will also be mapped, so that consumers and farmers alike can gauge the viability of CSA's in our region. Local farmers need to hear from an informed and willing public that there is sufficient demand for their locally-grown produce to justify their investments.
REGIONAL CULTURAL RESOURCE INVENTORY
The first phase of this Inventory project is funded by an NCDOT grant with a focus on Moore County, in the vicinity of a particularly challenging road improvement project - the highway 24/27 bypass near Carthage. The Moore County work was substantially completed in July of 2009, and the remainder of our Phase 1 work has been devoted to the research, collection and entry of cultural resource records in the other 10 counties in the Inventory project. Phase 1 will be completed in December of 2009. Read more>>
SPRING URBAN FARM TOUR
The first annual Urban Farm Tour (UFT) was held on April 11, 2009, in Cumberland and Moore Counties. Hundreds of people came out on Saturday to tour the farms and get tips from our farmers and from the workshops. If you participated in the Tour, please send us your comments and suggestions.
Our second annual UFTr was held on April 10,2010, and we saw an even larger number of attendees than those for our 2009 Tour, and we expanded the number and variety of farms. Our workshops at the end of the day were open to everyone in the community and were highly successful. If you attended and would like to share your comments, click here!.
We also thank our 2009 sponsors and our 2010 sponsors for helping us make our Tours a success! Our next UFT will be held in the Spring of 2011 -- we will post more information the closer it gets on both our homepage and our events calendar! Read more>>