The Village Indoor Farm & Living Lab, an Eastern Charlotte Waterways' initiative, opening in a former Blacks Harbour grocery store
initiative to build sustainable systems for rural communities got a shot in the arm when it comes to funding.
"The most recent funding allows us to complete the renovations," said Briana Cowie, executive director of Eastern Charlotte Waterways."When we purchased it, it was a storage unit, and it closed as a grocery store in 2018, so it's a complete retrofit." "I encourage all kinds of organizations to apply for this kind of thing, because it allows us to create climate-resilient buildings, and also allows us as non-profits to lower our operational costs moving forward, and that's huge," Cowie said.The Village Indoor Farm & Living Lab project is part of the group'sinitiative, which also includes an affordable housing project that became its own non-profit and a car share project that launched last summer.
"The building itself has been designed, because it was an old grocery store, as a full-spectrum food system, so there is already a cooler space and a processing room, and a big bay door for distribution," Cowie said.
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