Explore Farm Campus
Incubator Farm
An incubator farm will train and support the next generation of sustainable urban farmers by providing land, access to equipment, and education for multiple new and beginning farmers at Farm Campus. The incubator farm will have areas for on-farm demonstrations of small and urban-scale agriculture techniques, selection of appropriate crops and management techniques, regenerative agriculture practices, and controlled-environment and precision agriculture.
Post-Harvest Food Education
A post-harvest food education facility will serve incubator farmers on farm campus and potentially other local farmers. The facility can offer cold/dry storage and space to facilitate aggregation, processing, distribution, and marketing. This facility aims to address documented shortages of cold storage and aggregation space in our area.
Shared Kitchen and Meeting Space
A value-added production facility will provide a shared kitchen/commissary and meeting space to enable producers, entrepreneurs, and community members to develop skills in value-added agricultural production, such as turning bruised tomatoes into salsa with a longer shelf life for sales and a higher value per pound. It is hoped that the facility will include multiple commercial kitchens to help address the shortage of commercial kitchen access in our region and could serve food entrepreneurs as well as farmers.
Healing Garden
A healing garden will provide Durham residents with opportunities to connect with the land – and the plants and animals that live on it. Opportunities for therapeutic horticulture will be offered, in addition to offering a space for environmental and ecological education. This space will be open to all in Durham county, not just those involved in the farm campus, and will have an emphasis on flowers for pollinators, culinary and medicinal herbs, and ornamental plants.
