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.

     
 
 
  • Collaborative, Creative Placemaking: Good Public Art Depends on Good Public Spaces
     
     
  • Egret with Fish
     
     
  • Chefs go eye-to-claw with crabs
     
     
  • Strategy of the Fittest: Moss Landing’s development diversity makes it an economic survivor.
     
     
  • Preserving Waterfront Access
     
     
  • The Business of Local Foods: Kathleen Merrigan, Deputy Secretary, USDA
     
     
  • Fish House News: Page 1 & 2
     
     
  • New Study: Buying Locally Pays Big Dividends for Maine’s Economy
     
     
  • Getting Down to Business
     
     
  • Hatteras Fisherman
     
     
  • Liz with Doves
     
     
  • Preaching a Healthy Diet in the Deep-Fried Delta
     
     
  • Add this 1 thing to make your tour signs much more effective
     
     
  • Wonderfully Clever Bench Advertising
     
     
  • Buying Local Makes Economic Sense
     
     
  • An Entrepreneurial Solution To The Problem Of Getting Local Food To Local Tables: Trust, Convenience, And Perceived Value
     
     
  • We can fund that! USDA grants help the local food movement grow
     
     
  • City counties ranked healthier than rural
     
     
  • Emerging Island Leaders and Entrepreneurs Come Together
     
     
  • Value of Civic Centers as Great Public Spaces
     
     
  • Is There An Island Culture?
     
     
  • Rural self reliance
     
     
  • California's Real Rural tells hidden stories
     
     
  • You are not your target market Part 1
     
     
  • From tank to cafeteria table: Students raise fish, then toss them in the fry pan
     
     
  • Creative Solutions: North Carolina's HandMade in America
     
     
  • Ocracoke Classroom
     
     
  • Libraries Leading Community
     
     
  • RUPRI Rural Futures Lab: The New Website
     
     
  • Place Matters: How One Radio Show Makes the Case Every Week
     
     
  • Crab Cages
     
     
  • Local Rules: How To Boost Holiday Sales
     
     
  • Chefs help push local seafood
     
     
  • Social Media, Small Town Business Style
     
     
  • Hop on the BUS! Kicks Off 6th Year!
     
     
  • Maine Food Map
     
     
  • Studio 12 in Avon Creates Ornaments for the 2011 National Christmas Tree Display
     
     
  • Hatteras Island Asset Map Available Online
     
     
  • Public Libraries: A New Type of Town Square
     
     
  • Introduction to Social Media for Festivals and Events
     
     
  • What Attaches People to Their Communities?
     
     
  • Saltwater Connections Team to Meet with Hatteras Island Communities January 10
     
     
  • Hyper-local markets provide big economic boost
     
     
  • What the World Could Be
     
     
  • Obama Administration Establishes White House Rural Council to Strengthen Rural Communities
     
     
  • Farming for Jobs: Can local food movement prove a broader economic engine?
     
     
  • Community Garden Donates Produce to Salvo Food Pantry
     
     
  • Funds for Community Projects
     
     
  • Fishing for Energy Expands to Florida to Help Recycle and Recover Energy from Old Fishing Gear in Miami-Dade County
     
     
  • Harvesting the Positive Potential of Detroit
     
     
  • The Culinary Trust is Offering Grants for Chefs Move to Schools Projects
     
     
  • Eleven Principles for Creating Great Community Places
     
     
  • The Surf and Turf Connection
     
     
  • Investment Fund Launches to Build Model Local Foodshed
     
     
  • Putting Our Jobs Back in Place
     
     
  • House with Fence
     
     
  • No time? No money? No sweat.
     
     
  • Man on Bike with Fishing Pole
     
     
  • Fresh Seafood
     
     
  • Southern Entrepreneurship in Arts Conference
     
     
  • Green Fish Entrepreneurs
     
     
  • National Family Farm Coalition seeking Fall Interns
     
     
  • Selling scallops in the shell could boost fishermen’s income
     
     
  • Building a Sustainable Seafood System for Maine
     
     
  • Sea Breeze Trail
     
     
  • There are ways to get top dollar for your catch
     
     
  • Doing the math: Nonprofits, arts provide economic boost
     
     
  • Hill & Sons
     
     
  • National Geographic Student Expeditions Scholarship Program
     
     
  • New Partnership for Sustainable Communities Report:Supporting Sustainable Rural Communities
     
     
  • Durham's Innovation Ecosystem
     
     
  • USDA Releases Report on Marketing of Local Foods in the US
     
     
  • Ecotourism to be Focus of Hatteras Presentation on January 25
     
     
  • A Boat-to-Table Initiative Brings Fish to Chefs
     
     
  • “Ocracoke: Creating A Sustainable Community”
     
     
  • Watermen's Column: Ocracoke Working Watermen's Association
     
     
  • State Agencies Launch Program to Recognize “Green” Travel-Related Businesses
     
     
  • High School Students Build A Farmer's Market In A Food Desert
     
     
  • Bon Appetit Lists Seafood CSFs as Hot Food Trend for 2012
     
     
  • WATERFOWL WEEKEND - Celebrates Traditional Coastal Community Heritage
     
     
  • Post Office
     
     
  • Bayou La Batre seafood waste processing plant touted as job creator
     
     
  • Regional food hubs on the rise with local food markets
     
     
  • Old sardine cannery showing signs of life
     
     
  • News from The Ocracoke Foundation
     
     
  • Local Economic Implications of Urban Bicycle Networks
     
     
  • How to use historic photos and postcards in tourism
     
     
  • Mobile slaughterhouse
     
     
  • High school creates cookbook to highlight local food, healthy eating
     
     
  • Seafood Summit Set for February
     
     
  • Communities Learn the Good Life Can Be a Killer
     
     
  • Small-Town Doctors Made in a Small Kansas Town
     
     
  • Local food 'vital to the economy'
     
     
  • Fish House News: Page 3 & 4
     
     
  • Fish to Schools Program: We Love our Fishermen Lunch Video
     
     
  • Avon Seafood
     
     
  • Voices from the Fisheries Project
     
     
  • Buxton, Frisco, and Hatteras to Plan for Resource Team Visit
     
     
  • Cape Hatteras Classroom
     
     
  • Crab House
     
     

What’s New

  • Fish to Schools Program: We Love our Fishermen Lunch Video
    February 22, 2012
    The Fish to Schools Program began as a vision at the 2010 Sitka Health Summit and with community support and leadership from the Sitka Conservation Society, we are now working with over half of students enrolled in the Sitka School District. This progr...
  • Emerging Island Leaders and Entrepreneurs Come Together
    February 22, 2012
    A group of 26 islanders representing 10 Maine islands met on January 20 for three days of intensive training at Point Lookout Resort in Northport, Maine. The diverse group of islanders – a selectman, a motel owner, a potter, a sternman, a farm manage...
  • The Business of Local Foods: Kathleen Merrigan, Deputy Secretary, USDA
    February 21, 2012
    This week I was at the Federal Reserve Bank in Chicago to talk about the business of local food. The conversation focused on how USDA and other federal agencies can work together with the private sector to harness the economic potential of local food a...
  • State Agencies Launch Program to Recognize “Green” Travel-Related Businesses
    February 21, 2012
    The N.C. Division of Environmental Assistance and Outreach, in partnership with the North Carolina Center for Sustainable Tourism, have launched the NC GreenTravel Initiative, a program that recognizes state travel-related businesses that employ health...
  • Funds for Community Projects
    February 19, 2012
    Saltwater Connections has funding for small community projects that support and facilitate job creation and retention, supplemental income generation, or small business development, including commercial fishing and eco-/heritage tourism industries. Sal...

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