Working With Peanuts

We are all quite proud of my daughter, Jess, who works in advertising in New York City.  She’s 24, broke, and works on the top floor of a Fifth Avenue sky scraper right next to the Empire State Building.
And she does cool work.  Her firm, Green Team, focuses on what they call the “Awakening Consumer,” [...]

So Long, Scott

Scott Shore was an intern with us last semester.  He is off to his next adventure, and we are grateful for his time with us.  Here is what he wrote about his time at Piedmont:

For the last three months, I have been an intern at Piedmont Biofuels.  Rather than just providing a standard journal with [...]

Sustainable Grub

Over on the other side of Moncure, Dee Reid has been quietly publishing a fantastic blog about our foodshed.
I’m new to it, and I am eating it up.
The other day it dawned on me that we have a bunch of bloggers around here who dabble in like-minded foodshed issues.  Whether it is Tess with her [...]

Making Things Again

It seems I write a lot these days.  And it seems I never get around to Energy Blog.  So I thought I would “re-publish” a recent column in the Chapel Hill News.
There was a time when Evan would bring hard copies of the Chapel Hill News to the plant.  They would lie around the kitchen, [...]

Season’s Greetings

Check out our December Membership Newsletter!

Industry at the Brink

I’m in D.C. this week, running around from giant office building to giant office building, meeting with politicians and lobbyists and the like, working on a bunch of stuff.
All the buzz in the biodiesel community is whether or not “that pesky dollar” will live or die by the end of the month.  Registered producers like [...]

CSA Week 16

It is time for our final CSA harvest of the season! We hope that you all have enjoyed it as much as we have.  We will pick back up again in late February. In the meantime, you can find our produce each Saturday at the Durham Farmers’ Market, at Chatham Marketplace, and in some delicious [...]

Farmer of the Year

December 11, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Roland McReynolds, Executive Director, (919) 542-2402 or
roland@carolinafarmstewards.org
Pittsboro Farmer Receives Sustainable Farming Award at Gathering of 500+
The Carolina Farm Stewardship Association (CFSA) has named this year’s
sustainable agriculture award recipients. The awards were announced
December 5, 2009 at a gathering of over 500 sustainable agriculture
advocates and farmers for the 24th annual CFSA conference [...]