Volume 15 Edition 1
Levine Connection Fall 2023
Charlotte Harvest Exchange: Fresh Produce, Smiling Faces by Jordane Williams ’24
Beginning in the fall of last year, Galen Miller, Kaitlyn Gosline and I worked diligently in planning our project. This semester, we finally felt the excitement of watching our civic engagement project culminate into fruition. During the summer after her first year, Kaitlyn completed her nonprofit internship with The Bulb, an organization committed to distributing fresh produce around the Charlotte region. The connections she made during her time at The Bulb served as the spark that started it all,
and the nonprofit serves as the supplier for our fresh markets. The original idea, with the endearing name “Cans for Carrots,” was set to be a market where participants exchanged canned goods and other nonperishables for fresh produce. In the first iteration of this project, the collected canned goods would then be distributed to the Jamil Niner Student Pantry in a circular system that benefitted The Bulb, students, and the Niner Student Pantry.
Participants received t-shirts in exchange for recyclables.
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