Good Bowls has a fresh new look, we’re rolling out 4 new flavors that hit the shelves in December, and our Autumn Pay-It-Forward food equity program set a new record with 334 meals cooked and donated.

Last week Good Bowls travelled with WSM Executive Chef, Glenn Lozuke, down to the Hines Family Farm in Jacksonville, NC. We spent the day with Donald Hines, a 4th generation farmer, touring his fields and learning about his business. Donald currently grows zucchini, squash, cauliflower, broccoli, kale, and many other staple North Carolina vegetables. He sells his produce wholesale to Weaver Street Market (to help make Good Bowls) and also sells his vegetables at road side stands in his community in an effort to eliminate food deserts in his region.

When we sat down with the Executive Director of Communities in Schools of Chatham County, Tych Cowdin told us that, “over the course of the pandemic, food insecurity became a big issue, particularly in our town.”

For the campaign during August 2021, we’re working with Chef Sera Cuni at The Root Cellar and our perennial partner, Pittsboro Eats, to collect donations, cook up some healthy meals, and then distribute them to food-insecure families in our community.  Sera is a classically trained chef with decades of experience creating seasonal classics loaded with fresh, local vegetables and seasoned with regionally inspired spices from all around the world. We can’t wait to see what’s in season and coming out of her kitchen on meal-production day after the campaign wraps up. 

For our campaign in June and July 2021 we worked with Pittsboro EATS and partnered with Kristin Bulpitt at Copeland Springs Farm and Kitchen. Over 125 meals were donated so we spent a morning preparing nutritious meals, sourced right from Kristin's farm, and then distributed them through our partner, Communities in Schools.

Within days of the pandemic shutdown, Carrboro United Food Hub was born. It was not only a place where you could get fresh vegetables, meats, and prepared meals for your family during the pandemic lock down, but it was also a lifeline to many local businesses, restaurants, and most importantly employees.

After being closed for the past year Present Day on Main, previously Johnny’s Gone Fishing, was excited to finally re-open its doors to the public to show off its freshly updated community space. To help kick off the event, Good Bowls cooked up some huge batches of our Chicken Burrito Bowls and our Vegetable Curry Bowls to help provide event attendees some tasty morsels to go along with their iced coffees and fresh pastries.

We started this campaign with the goal of having 50 meals donated over the two-week period. We were taken by storm with the generosity of the community, and we surpassed our goal within the first 24 hours.

Red Tail Grains grinds their grits right here in Orange County, NC and they are on their way to your breakfast table very soon.