Out of the Garden Project in the News
A Funnel Cloud with a Silver Lining – Featured on Triad Moms on Main
This guest blog can be read in full at https://triadmomsonmain.com/my-blog/funnel-cloud-silver-lining. GREENSBORO — As Executive Director and President of Out of the Garden Project, the largest charity in the Piedmont whose mission is feeding children and their...
Weekend birdies will help Wyndham Championship raise money for child hunger charities
GREENSBORO — With no spectators allowed at Sedgefield this week, the Wyndham Championship has come up with new ways to raise money for some of its signature charities.Every year since 2014, the Wyndham has donated at least $100,000 split among four...
‘It’s not good right now’: Wyndham Championship without fans creates challenges for its charities
GREENSBORO — When the Wyndham Championship begins next week, the fans won’t be there. But the need still is.Greensboro’s golf tournament has evolved over the long years since its humble beginnings in 1938, and today’s event is a complicated financial...
From the university with love: N.C. A&T’s College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences reaches out to help the community
GREENSBORO — The COVID-19 outbreak has left many North Carolinians sheltered at home, wondering when life will return to normal. But for N.C. A&T’s College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, the pandemic has been a call to action.From food to...
800 free meals to be handed out at Greensboro church on Tuesday
GREENSBORO — Mount Zion Baptist Church is partnering with Out of The Garden Project and Chick-Fil-A for another food giveaway, according to a news release from the church.The giveaway is from noon until all the food is gone on Tuesday, The team will...
Out of the Garden Project giving out 4 times more food – or more – at events
GREENSBORO — When Out of the Garden Project started about 12 years ago, the founders never imagined one day they would be serving thousands of people in need of fresh food because of a pandemic.“We went from six families to this,” said Don Milholin, who...
Photos: Mount Zion Baptist Church gives fresh food to the needy
People drive up for a sandwich and boxes of free produce at the No Greater Love Serve the City event at Mount Zion Baptist Church in Greensboro on Tuesday. The church partnered with Out of the Garden Project and Chick-fil-A for the fresh produce and sack...
Volvo gives over $65,000 to local coronavirus relief efforts
GREENSBORO — Volvo Group North America donated nearly $70,000 to local coronavirus relief efforts.In a release, the company said it donated $40,000 to the Greensboro Relief Fund.It’s important that we’re a step ahead of what our normal giving cycle is with...
Local family using #haircutsforhunger to raise money for food banks
With stay-at-home orders in place, a lot of Piedmont families are working and learning at home. Seeing the same four walls can make you a little restless. For Bryan Starrett, home quarantine has sparked his creativity.“I thought the kids are looking for...
Area food pantries facing record demand
GREENSBORO — One by one, the minivans and SUVs back up to loading bays at Backpack Beginnings’ headquarters in an industrial zone on the city’s western perimeter.Parker White, director of the nonprofit food program, works with her team of volunteers to...
‘A godsend’: Greensboro food giveaway helps 10,000 in need because of COVID-19 crisis
GREENSBORO — About 10,000 people descended on a produce giveaway Wednesday, soberly reinforcing how much area families are struggling to make ends meet as the coronavirus crisis drags on.The line of cars in the Daystar Church parking lot extended into the...
Local organizations working together to feed families in the Guilford County school district
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Organizations are working together to feed families in the Guilford County school district. Out of the Garden Project and Foster-Caviness teamed up to donate several truck-fulls of fresh produce at Daystar Church Wednesday.The free...
Wednesday drive-thru market offers free produce for families of Guilford County school-age children
GREENSBORO — A drive-thru market of free produce will be held Wednesday for families of school-age children in Guilford County Schools who are having trouble putting food on the table.The market will be 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the parking lot of Daystar...
Four 2 Five: Daystar Church in Greensboro serves hundreds of families during COVID-19 outbreak
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Daystar Church in Greensboro had plans to open a community center in their gym at the end of March but when the coronavirus pandemic hit their city, they pushed that deadline up to serve."We were planning to start at the end of the...
Unused food from ACC Tournament will go to hungry children, families
GREENSBORO, N.C. (WTVD) -- All the food that didn't get eaten at the Greensboro Coliseum over the weekend will go to a good cause.The ACC Tournament was canceled because of the coronavirus, but coliseum officials along with some local agencies, are making...
Loss of ACC, NCAA games has been easier to digest for Greensboro food banks
GREENSBORO — With the ACC and NCAA tournaments canceled at the Greensboro Coliseum, what happens to all of that unused food?Fortunately, there were some local food banks eager to take it.“It’s an amazing amount of food because it’s individual meals and...
Out of the Garden Project using donated food from canceled ACC tournament to feed kids in need
GREENSBORO, N.C — A local nonprofit organization in the Triad received several pounds of food from the Greensboro Coliseum.The Out of the Garden Project, a nonprofit whose mission is to feed children and their families in need, spent a few hours on the...
Out of the Garden Project’s Shared Use Kitchen and Urban Teaching Farm in the News
Greensboro, N.C.- The Buckley Report on Channel 8, Fox News featured Out of the Garden Project's Urban Teaching Farm and Shared Use Kitchen programs. Read more about the Buckley Report's feature below.The more sophisticated modern life gets, the more...
Modern-day disciple Andrew: Continuing to spread the good news of God’s love
Andrew was there when Jesus fed 5,000 people with five loaves of bread and two fish. Andrew found the boy with the food and brought him to Jesus. Talk about being in the right place at the right time! The selfie on that miracle would have been, well,...
Hearts sank when east Greensboro lost their neighborhood grocer. But now there’s a new one — on wheels.
This is the second time the mobile market has stopped in east Greensboro, the heart of one of the city’s largest food deserts.Like the name implies, a food desert is an area bereft of food — more specifically, grocery stores. It’s where residents challenged with lack...
