In The Weeds – Pamlico Rose

Honoring Army Veteran Sara Keys Evans by Building a Bridge

Sarah Keys boarded a bus in Trenton, NJ in August of 1952 as a woman soldier on leave going home to visit her parents in Washington, NC. Private Keys got off the bus, not in Washington, NC and not of her own volition, but in Roanoke Rapids and arrested for disorderly conduct. In 1946, the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) ruled that on buses thattravel across state […]

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The Invisible Veteran

In The Weeds / Robert Sands

“I was proud to serve my country,” one woman Veteran told me. “Now, I just want to put my service behind me and move on with my life, but experiences I had while in the military keep getting in the way.” On this Veteran’s Day, we commemorate all Veterans who served honorably in defense of

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The Farm

In The Weeds / Robert Sands

The Blind Center’s vision of a wellness garden includes growing spaces we call pods which are encircled by and connected to each other by pathways. Within the crop circle-like pods are an assortment of veggie-bearing beds. Lavender seedlings are planted three feet apart and three feet from pathway borders. The vegetables will support the nutritional

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Building a Concept and Growing it to a Gardening Reality

In The Weeds / Robert Sands

The summer is in full swing, temperatures and humidity are up; rainfall is plentiful. Our three PRI Health Corps wellness garden sites are now producing harvest. The two-pronged goal of PRI Health Corps is to build gardens that grow healthy vegetables and promote awareness of sound nutritional practices to foster healthy living or as we

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Building Today…for Tomorrow

In The Weeds / Robert Sands

It’s been a tough road to build our first greenhouse at the Blind Center’s newly purchased 14 acre campus plot – we affectionately, and accurately call the Farm. Our Pamlico Rose Institute “PRI Health Corps,” a public health initiative partnership between the CDC and AmeriCorps, learned new skills and acquired knowledge and experienced opportunity along

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Anticipating the next chapter in 2023

In The Weeds / Robert Sands

I want to take a moment or two to step away from our busy schedules and timelines and provide a capsule of our progress on our many mission fronts as we look toward a new year. 2022 closes out as the most remarkable year in our young existence as a non-profit on our mission to

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Cold Weather…or Not

In The Weeds / Robert Sands

Temperatures hit a balmy 29 degrees this November morning. Even the sun seemed to shiver as it climbed from its nocturnal blanket – not a morning many would consider inviting to gardeners, anxious to roll out of their own beds and into their gardens. For our PRI Health Corps members, sub-freezing temps, or not, anxious or not, November mornings like this are exactly days to roll out of bed and put on several layers of warmth, anticipating great things to happen in our

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Germinating the Healing Seed of Wellness in Community Gardens

In The Weeds / Robert Sands

Going hungry is no joke. CNBC reports that twenty-five percent of Americans skip a meal or two every couple days because they can’t afford the food to eat. According to the USDA, 33 million adults and five million children experience daily struggles getting enough and/or the right kind of food to eat. Food insecurity is defined by the USDA as “a lack of consistent access

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Community-based East Carolina Veterans Coalition helps close the gaps in meeting the needs of at-risk Veterans

In The Weeds / Robert Sands

Pamlico Rose Institute is a member of, and the financial agent for, East Carolina Veterans Coalition The East Carolina Veterans Coalition (ECVC) is a collection of non-profits, government agencies, Veteran Service Organizations and Veterans. With the financial help of the Bob Woodward Foundation (BWF), the Coalition sponsors county Veteran stand downs, helps individual Veterans meet

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That Was the Week that Was

In The Weeds / Robert Sands

That Was The Week That Was When I was growing up, us 5 kids and our parents sat in front of a black and white Zenith or Motorola or a brand like that once a week and watched the English on BBC make fun of everybody else in the world, especially us very distant cousins across the “pond”

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