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- **Posted:** 2025-08-06T14:08:45.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chapelboro.com (@chapelboronews) — https://gondola.cc/chapelboronews

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Orange County has partnered with the local nonprofit TABLE in a three-year deal that will allow the nonprofit to use designated land for sustainable agriculture to address food insecurity. 

The land is on the site of the future Twin Creeks Park on Old NC Highway 86. Twin Creeks Park was part of a master plan adopted by Orange County in 2005, but the project has failed to materialize since then. TABLE, which focuses on combating childhood hunger, will instead use it to grow more fruits and vegetables and deliver them directly to food-insecure children. The agreement was approved by the Orange County Board of Commissioners on May 20 and officially signed on June 11.

Based in Carrboro, TABLE distributes healthy food to 1,160 children in Orange County every week. Executive director Ashton Tippins said that with a fast-growing waitlist currently at 191 kids, an expansion of operations has been urgent for a while.

“Our waitlist started in February of 2023 when the pandemic benefits ended, and honestly, ever since then, it’s just never gone back down,” she said. “We’ll add kids from that waitlist, but then we’ll have more people sign right back up. So it’s been this ongoing need for growth for the past couple of years for sure.”

The process was initiated by Jim Sander, who runs Wildflower Lane Farm. He has partnered with TABLE since 2019, with his farm providing about $125,000 worth of produce to TABLE just this year. He approached the county with the idea to use the Twin Creeks land for agriculture. Tippins said Sander’s initiative has been crucial to TABLE’s strength and effectiveness.

“Partnering with Jim, and for Jim to be interested in and willing to take this on is truly just incredible,” she said. “It does make our work more sustainable. We’re able to serve more kids and take steps towards serving more kids as a result of the partnership with Jim and this kind of expansion of Wildflower Lane.”

Full story on Chapelboro.com.
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