Community Gardens

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 […]

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