Green Opportunities

Green Opportunities is a community-based development organization dedicated to improving lives, communities and planetary health through innovative green collar job training and placement programs. 

Growing Power

Growing Power transforms communities by supporting people from diverse backgrounds and the environments in which they live through the development of Community Food Systems.

Good Coffee

I met one of the owners this summer (yup, multi-talented primo craft woodworker...) For profit, with ethics.  It can be done.

Short Street Cakes

Jodi Rhoden,  sweets activist.    Small business doing big works (and the cupcakes are GREAT!)

D Acres

Organic farm and educational homestead.

Dig In! Yancey

A community garden in Burnsville, NC growing fresh food that is provided to local soup kitchens.

Empty Bowls

“From its humble beginnings as a meal for the staff of one high school, Empty Bowls has spread across the United States and beyond and has raised tens of millions of dollars for anti-hunger organizations.”