Residents will enjoy an immersive space to virtually explore Winston Salem’s emerging food innovation ecosystem. This community-based platform uses a unique Living Laboratory that will serve as a community gathering space and a hub for a future city-wide Health Innovation District. Renew Forsyth is one of the Institute for Regenerative Design & Innovation first Cooperative-Innovation Platforms. Happy Hill manages the oldest community garden in North Carolina and is connected to 4-H and the Winston-Salem Forsyth County Extension Services. Happy Hill Neighborhood Association works to ensure that families in the historically African American community havecommunity, have a balance of intellectual vitality, economic strength, healthcare resources, climate resilience, and effective social and traditional infrastructure. Renew Forsyth is building a more equitable economy from the soil up.Ĭategory: Green Entrepreneurship, Climate Resilience, Sustainable Agriculture Unique nutrition curriculums are facilitated to support r community resilience against health concerns familiar to disenfranchised demographics. Renew Forsyth also partners with neighborhood associations, local schools, and organizations who work with formerly incarcerated individuals. The innovation district consists of three hubs: a farmer hub to grow bionutrient food, a food aggregation hub for community distribution, and an entrepreneurship hub to support small businesses in selling their plant-based products. The food district concentrates food- orientedated businesses, services, and community activities that increase access to fresh and bionutrient food into the local supply chain while promoting positive local business environments and creating new professional occupation opportunities for residents. Under the Renew Forsyth movement, communities in Winston-Salem, North Carolina have formed a food innovation district that integrates a conservation and rehabilitation approach to food and farming systems.
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