Source: GREENVILLE DAILY REFLECTOR, 5/717

The fruits of an effort to make sustainably grown food more accessible and affordable are ready to bloom in northern Pitt County. The Coalition for Healthier Eating has completed renovations of a vacant fertilizer plant in Bethel to operate its long-awaited Community Food Hub, a facility that will clean and process and distribute meats and vegetables grown using low-chemical, healthy sustainable methods by farmers and producers throughout the region. It will begin online and onsite sales June 1. “It feels like a mother who has finally gone into labor and will finally be able to hold her newborn baby,” Maxine White, the coalition’s executive director and the hub’s plant manager, said at the Railroad Street facility last week. …

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