Sol Food Mobile Farm

A veggie-oil schoolbus set to tour the U.S. as a growing experience on wheels!

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Community Matters: Teaming Up with Inter-Faith Food Shuttle

Community Matters: Teaming Up with Inter-Faith Food Shuttle

| May 9, 2012 | 3 Comments

This past Saturday, we had the honor of partnering with one of the leading organizations in North Carolina that fights the good fight to end hunger, the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle. As some of you know, we are HUGE supporters and fans of the Food Shuttle, who has been transforming the Triangle with their leadership in [...]

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The Green Roof Travels Through North Carolina: Sol Food Mobile Farm

The Green Roof Travels Through North Carolina: Sol Food Mobile Farm

| May 2, 2012 | 3 Comments

In Goes the Bedrooms & Up Goes the Green Roof Through the month of March, we watched as Sol Food Mobile Farm crew converted the back or their bus into a fully functional greenhouse and tour attraction. Now, in the last three weeks alone, the bus is not only outfitted with happy vegetable seedlings indoors, [...]

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Spring Planting with Durham Youth: Sol Food Mobile Farm

Spring Planting with Durham Youth: Sol Food Mobile Farm

| April 4, 2012 | 3 Comments

With planting season upon us in North Carolina, the Sol Food Mobile Farm has been making trips around Durham, NC to different schools to get some sprouts in the ground and start local gardens! Over the past two weeks Sol Food Mobile Farm has worked with kids in the West End neighborhood of Durham, students [...]

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See the Bus! April Events in NC & on PBS

See the Bus! April Events in NC & on PBS

| March 28, 2012 | 3 Comments

Since completing the mobile greenhouse in early March, the Sol Food team has been out and about in downtown Durham offering workshops and tours!  Start looking for the red, Zomppa bus this spring as it makes stops in all sorts of crazy places! The bus was last seen at the West End Community Garden as [...]

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Greenhouse Building: Sol Food Mobile Farm

Greenhouse Building: Sol Food Mobile Farm

| March 21, 2012 | 2 Comments

Over the past three weeks the Sol Food Mobile Farm team has been hard completing construction work on their mobile greenhouse. The back third of the bus is now glowing with natural sunlight through a unique plexi-glass ceiling designed and installed by the crew.  The original flooring of the bus also had to go in [...]

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What Color is the Sol Food Mobile Farm Now? Winter Updates!

What Color is the Sol Food Mobile Farm Now? Winter Updates!

| February 29, 2012 | 3 Comments

The Sol Food Mobile Farm, which will be hitting the road across the U.S. in June 2012 will be conducting square foot gardening workshops, composting workshops, and Zomppa’s Healthy Eating & Global Curriculum classes. This talented group of young people will be updating you on their adventures to get the bus to you. To support [...]

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Hitchiker’s Guide to Getting Stopped by Homeland Security: The Epic New Hampshire Story Part II

Hitchiker’s Guide to Getting Stopped by Homeland Security: The Epic New Hampshire Story Part II

| February 22, 2012 | 2 Comments

The Sol Food Mobile Farm, which will be hitting the road across the U.S. in June 2012 will be conducting square foot gardening workshops, composting workshops, and Zomppa’s Healthy Eating & Global Curriculum classes. This talented group of young people will be updating you on their adventures to get the bus to you. To support [...]

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Crazy Boston Drivers & Electrical Fires: The Epic New Hampshire Story Part I

Crazy Boston Drivers & Electrical Fires: The Epic New Hampshire Story Part I

| February 15, 2012 | 4 Comments

The Sol Food Mobile Farm, which will be hitting the road across the U.S. in June 2012 will be conducting square foot gardening workshops, composting workshops, and Zomppa’s Healthy Eating & Global Curriculum classes. This talented group of young people will be updating you on their adventures to get the bus to you. To support [...]

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Sol Food Mobile Farm & Zomppa FAQ

Sol Food Mobile Farm & Zomppa FAQ

| February 15, 2012 | 1 Comment

Zomppa is pleased and proud to support the Sol Food Mobile Farm, a NC-based nonprofit that promotes and teaches about community gardening, environmental sustainability, and healthy habits on a waste-oil-run converted school bus. Sol Food Mobile Farm on Vimeo. Mission The mission of Sol Food Mobile Farm (SFMF) starts with advocating for local foods and [...]

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