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Title: Jean Siers oral history interview, 2019 March 27
Creator: Siers, Jean, 1964-
Date Created: 2019-03-27
Subjects--Topical: Agriculture, Farmers, Gleaning, Food security, Volunteers
Description: Jean Siers is the Charlotte, North Carolina, Regional Gleaning Coordinator for the Society of St. Andrews and she has held this position since 2012. The Society of St. Andrews works to bring people together to harvest and share healthy food, reduc...

Title: Kimberly Buch oral history interview, 2019 April 4
Creator: Buch, Kimberly
Date Created: 2019-04-4
Subjects--Topical: College students, Graduate students, Students, Foreign, Food, Universities and colleges, Food security, Hurricane Florence (2018)
Description: Dr. Kim Buch, a professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte), discusses how she helped to found the Jamil Niner Student Pantry in 2012. She describes how in addition to running the food pantry, students ...

Title: Lucy Bush Carter oral history interview, 2019 March 6
Creator: Carter, Lucy Bush
Date Created: 2019-03-6
Subjects--Topical: Food relief, Food security, Community gardens, Urban agriculture, Volunteers
Description: In this interview, Lucy Bush Carter, the Executive Director of Friendship Trays in Charlotte, North Carolina, discusses the history of the organization, its evolution, and partnerships with other organizations over time. She describes how Friendsh...

Title: Mendy Godman, Sue Hawes, and Kim Aprill oral history interview, 2019 March 27
Creator: Godman, Mendy Leigh
Date Created: 2019-03-27
Subjects--Topical: Food security, Hunger, Facebook (Electronic resource), Food waste
Description: Mendy Godman, Sue Hawes, and Kim Aprill began the Charlotte, North Carolina, chapter of Food Connection in September 2018. In this interview, they describe how they met, the mission of Food Connection, how it functions, and the larger food distrib...

Title: Nadine Ford oral history interview 2, 2019 April 18
Creator: Ford, Elaine N. (Elaine Nadine)
Date Created: 2019-04-18
Subjects--Topical: Food security, Racism, Gentrification, Community gardens, Sexism
Description: Nadine Ford grew up in the Druid Hills neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina. Her love for growing things began in her early childhood when she lived on a farm and learned gardening from her parents and grandparents. This love for gardening tr...

Title: Rebecca Byrd oral history interview, 2019 March 20
Creator: Byrd, Rebecca M.
Date Created: 2019-03-20
Subjects--Topical: College students, Community gardens, Gardening, Food security
Description: History master's student Rebecca Byrd discusses her involvement with the Student Community Garden at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte). Ms. Byrd discusses topics including student leadership, community gardening, a...

Title: Rickey Hall oral history interview, 2019 April 16
Creator: Hall, Rickey, 1957-
Date Created: 2019-04-16
Subjects--Topical: Urban agriculture, Gardening, Food security, Community development, Urban, Grocery trade
Description: Native Charlottean Ricky Hall has lived in West Charlotte for his entire life, where he has become an important member of numerous neighborhood coalitions and organizations, including the West Boulevard Neighborhood Coalition and the West Side Com...

Title: Wade Hampton Ferguson oral history interview, 2016 March 16
Creator: Ferguson, Wade Hampton, III, 1962-
Date Created: 2016-03-16
Subjects--Topical: African American churches, Food security, Race relations, Gentrification, African American neighborhoods, Urban poor--Social conditions
Description: Bishop Wade Ferguson discusses his relationship to the neighborhood of Optimist Park in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he has been the full time minister of the Fifteenth Street Church of God since 2006. Providing background to his role as minis...

Title: Zack Wyatt oral history interview, 2019 April 1
Creator: Wyatt, Zack, 1980-
Date Created: 2019-04-04
Subjects--Topical: Urban agriculture, Farms, Nonprofit organizations, Food security, African Americans--Social conditions
Description: Zack Wyatt is the executive director at Carolina Farm Trust, a non-profit organization founded in 2015 which seeks to support local farmers and to educate communities on the importance of local food. Mr. Wyatt provides insight into the challenges ...