Saltwater Connections is a regional initiative aimed at sustaining livelihoods, cultural heritage, and natural resources along North Carolina’s central coast, from Hatteras Island to Ocracoke and Down East Carteret County.

What’s New

• Request for Proposals for Marketing/Public Relations Team
  May 20, 2013
  Saltwater Connections, in coordination with its local partners and community leaders, has identified three distinct, but collaborative, projects that will require the services of a professional marketing-graphics team to work with regional community leaders to address these needs: Task I:  Marketing Consultant to the Outer Banks National Scenic Byway Advisory Committee for Implementation of its Short-Term ...
• Local Food Policy Councils as Community Development Strategy
  May 18, 2013
  One might say that the local foods movement or “locavorism” is all the rage. We’ve done several posts here on the CED Blog about local food systems as they relate to community economic development. I posted a while ago about the local foods movement as community economic development. Sybil Tate wrote a post about efforts ...
• Seafood Throwdown: Day at the Docks 2012
  May 18, 2013
  In 2012, Outer Banks Catch hosted a series of cooking demonstrations and sponsored the Day at the Dock’s Seafood Throwdown, where two local chefs competed to take home bragging rights. Watch the video here
• National Working Waterfront Network (NWWN) May 2013 Network Update
  May 16, 2013
  May 2013 Network Update In this issue Greetings and how to get involved A Very Successful National Symposium in Tacoma Update from NWWN Annual Meeting Working Waterfronts Featured Initiative:  The Sustainable Working Waterfront Toolkit Upcoming Events Greetings and how to get involved This quarterly National Working Waterfront Network (NWWN) eNews is intended to inform our 1,700+ subscribers about current programs, topics, and events ...
• Dare County Local Food Meeting June 3, 2013
  May 16, 2013
  Dare County citizens are invited to join Dare County Cooperative Extension Service and the Center for Environmental Farming Systems for a local food meeting on June 3, 2013.  The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. at the Comfort Inn South, 8031 Old Oregon Inlet Road, Nags Head. The agenda includes examining how we feed ourselves and ...
• Ocracoke Local Foods Meeting
  May 16, 2013
  Ocracoke Local Foods group will be meeting Sunday May 19th 5:30-6:30pm at Heddie’s Home Grown nursery on Ocracoke. All are welcome.
• Millennial Trains Project
  May 16, 2013
  THE MILLENNIAL TRAINS PROJECT (MTP) is a non-profit organization that leads crowd-fundedtranscontinental train journeys that empower diverse groups of enterprising and civic-mindedMillennials to explore America’s new frontiers. Stopping in ten cities in ten days, our journeys provide opportunities for personal development and shared discovery through on-train seminars led by distinguished mentors, workshops with local leaders, and participant-led projects in MTP communities. OUR MISSION is to ...
• Sea Grant Specialist to study local seafood
  May 11, 2013
  San Diego has no community-supported fisheries and not a single fishermen’s market, where people can buy fish and shellfish directly from those who catch or culture it. Many of us may not even know what species are caught locally. California Sea Grant Coastal Specialist Theresa Sinicrope Talley and University of San Diego sociology professor Adina Batnitzky have been awarded ...