WE ARE ON HIATUS AS OF JANUARY 2023.

WE HAVE LOVED WORKING WITH COMMUNITIES AND AMAZING PARTNERS OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS, BUT AS OF NOW OUR FOUNDER HAS PUT COMMUNITY FOOD LAB ON HOLD TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL!

HE IS A FULL TIME STUDENT AND INSTRUCTOR IN NC STATE’S COLLEGE OF DESIGN, EXPLORING FOOD SYSTEMS THROUGH A NEW PERSPECTIVE. THE WEBSITE IS STILL UP, IN CASE OUR PROJECTS AND IDEAS CAN BE VALUABLE AS YOU BUILD YOUR OWN SUSTAINABLE, EQUITABLE FOOD PROJECTS.

Community Food Lab creates change in communities by connecting people, design thinking, and intelligent food system planning.

People

Our ability to listen and actively engage translates into lasting trust, strong relationships, and innovative, consensus-based solutions.

Design Thinking

Design thinking approaches and intelligent planning help your organization or community tackle food system problems and realize world-changing aspirations. Design adds value to local economies and energizes communities.

Food Systems

A food system is a network of people, farms, food operations, transportation, cooking, and food recovery that, in connection with the land itself, provides food to us everyday. This network operates within overlapping pressures of political, cultural, economic and environmental systems.

We strive towards racial equity in our company, our practice, and our projects. We are working towards an anti-racist stance, though we know that we have much to learn. The food system is our place, our area of impact, to support lasting change towards justice alongside Black and Brown individuals and communities.

Core Services

 
 
 

Typical Client Types

 
 

Municipalities Corporations

Institutions Design Firms

Nonprofits Individuals

Developers

“Working with Community Food Lab is amazing. Creative, detailed, intelligent, practical, timely are descriptive of the process and product. This is a winning partnership.”
— Peter Skillern, Executive Director at Reinvestment Partners
 
 

Select Projects

 
 

You can find more of our projects here.

 

Community Food Lab in the News

  • Food Tank, January 10, 2021. Op-Ed “Why Food Systems Need Resilient Farmers Markets”

  • American Planning Association NC, 2020. Outstanding Planning Award for our Wake County Food Security Plan.

  • Facing South, July 31, 2020. Article on Black farmers markets, including findings of our farmers market study.

  • 360° City podcast, May 11, 2020. “COVID Reflections” featuring interview with Erin White.

  • News and Observer, January 19, 2019. Article on working towards an urban-rural connection with Project 40.

  • First in Future podcast, January 15 2019. Forum on Connecting Rural and Urban.

  • R&E Search for Evidence, January 14, 2019. Working with partners, patients and communities in Durham.

  • News and Observer, May 5, 2017. Article on our farmland preservation plan with Conservation Trust for NC.

  • News and Observer, September 2016. Letter to the Editor "Restoring a healthy relationship with food."

  • Midtown Magazine, June 2016. Celebrating Second Saturday. p 106.

  • News and Observer, June 2015. Erin White's work with the Capital Area Food Network is featured.

  • Planning Magazine, American Planning Association, February 2015. The Raleigh Food Corridor.

  • News and Observer, November 2014. Erin White is named Tarheel of the Week.

  • The Independent, June 2014. Profile of the Raleigh Food Corridor

  • Food Tank, December 2013. Community Food Lab and design thinking.

 

706 Mountford Ave, Raleigh NC 27603

(919) 995-0460

white@communityfoodlab.org