We’ve been putting miles on our tires! Lots of miles.
We’ve driven up mountains and we’ve gone near clear to the beach, and we can’t wait to keep doing this over and over again. This past month, Down Home has been holding listening sessions across rural North Carolina. Our team has sat down with local folks all the way up in Boone and all the way down in New Bern– with a few spots in between.
This is how we learn. Local residents attending the listening sessions are telling us what they need. They are sharing with us what they love about the places they live — and what worries them. They are telling us about who is responsible for what is right and who is responsible for what is wrong. They are telling us what they think it will take to make change.
This is how we build. Down Home never wants to descend in on a community but instead wants to build a movement from the ground up. We will be spending much of this Spring and early Summer listening to folks across rural North Carolina– whether that be by knocking on their doors, by calling them on the phone, by chatting with them at the farmer’s market or by inviting them to sit down with us at a listening session.
Click on the images below to read about our listening sessions in Watauga County and Craven County.