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.

     
 
 
  • Community Project Funds
     
     
  • Calling All Carvers, Crafters, Artists, School Groups, Church Groups, Organizations, Clubs ...
     
     
  • High School Students Build A Farmer's Market In A Food Desert
     
     
  • Groups partner to serve local fish in school lunches
     
     
  • Hop on the BUS! Kicks Off 6th Year!
     
     
  • Buoys on Ocracoke House
     
     
  • School Food Initiative
     
     
  • "Locavesting": Investing In Main Street Instead Of Wall Street
     
     
  • Young Maine entrepreneur going with the flow
     
     
  • Space: The Social Change Frontier
     
     
  • Southern Farmers Vanquish the Cliches
     
     
  • Atlas of Rural and Small-Town America
     
     
  • Are Rural Communities Ready for Energy Transitions?
     
     
  • Oral History Workshop May 3 in Avon
     
     
  • 'Cash mobs' mobilize to boost small businesses — and to socialize
     
     
  • California's Real Rural tells hidden stories
     
     
  • A Mural of Island History
     
     
  • NCDOT NC Comprehensive Transportation Plan for Hyde County
     
     
  • You are not your target market Part 1
     
     
  • Dredging
     
     
  • Southern Fast Track Touring Grants
     
     
  • Cape Hatteras Classroom
     
     
  • Region needs to act now on economic growth
     
     
  • Wonderfully Clever Bench Advertising
     
     
  • Make your destination website copy-proof
     
     
  • What makes a local economy successful? Working together helps
     
     
  • Change in Saltwater Connections Community Projects Guidelines
     
     
  • Hop on the BUS Spring Registration Now Open
     
     
  • Fisherman's Co-op Considers Processing Plant
     
     
  • What's working in cities: Placemaking
     
     
  • How tracking your fish to the fisherman can improve seafood sustainability
     
     
  • Getting Down to Business
     
     
  • Saltwater Connections Resource Team to Discuss Preliminary Recommendations for Hatteras Island Villages
     
     
  • Commerce Department Releases First Cultural Heritage Visitor Profile
     
     
  • Fishtown Preservation
     
     
  • What Neighborhoods Need to Succeed at Walkability
     
     
  • Saltwater Connections is Going to Town with Core Sound
     
     
  • Buxton, Frisco, and Hatteras to Plan for Resource Team Visit
     
     
  • American Christmas Success Story: Rising From a Small Shop in a NC Fishing Village to a Legitimate Player in the $450 Billion U.S. Christmas Market
     
     
  • Turning Fish Waste into Gardening Gold
     
     
  • Sheep Lawn Mowers, and Other Go-Getters
     
     
  • Ten Qualities of a Great Waterfront Destination
     
     
  • How Government Can Unleash Small Business to Grow the Economy
     
     
  • Emerging Island Leaders and Entrepreneurs Come Together
     
     
  • Saltwater Connects Non-Profits, Naysayers and Non-Natives
     
     
  • Obama Administration Establishes White House Rural Council to Strengthen Rural Communities
     
     
  • Maine’s Delegates Act to Preserve the Nation’s Working Waterfront
     
     
  • Grant aims to get farm produce to students
     
     
  • On the Waterfront
     
     
  • Public Libraries: A New Type of Town Square
     
     
  • Working With Your Spouse: 5 Rules
     
     
  • Hatteras Connection Helps Feed the Hungry
     
     
  • Ecotourism to be Focus of Hatteras Presentation on January 25
     
     
  • Market Forces: Creating Jobs through Public Investment in Local and Regional Food Systems
     
     
  • Community Garden Donates Produce to Salvo Food Pantry
     
     
  • City of Sheboygan: a diverse and prosperous coastal community
     
     
  • New marketing strategy for local seafood business
     
     
  • What is Sparkcon?
     
     
  • Anti-innovation: 10 Proven Ways Not to Innovate
     
     
  • Program helps fishermen market their catch
     
     
  • Study Finds Local Businesses Key to Income Growth
     
     
  • The 20 Best Small Towns in America
     
     
  • EnvisionEast - 2050
     
     
  • San Antonio Is a Popping City!
     
     
  • Woman with Gillnet Reel
     
     
  • Hospital Food So Fresh, Even The Healthy Come To Dine
     
     
  • Is my small town the only one that is this messed up?
     
     
  • Saltwater Connections Team Announces February Meetings on Hatteras Island
     
     
  • Sustaining Storytelling
     
     
  • Ocracoke: Creating A Sustainable Community workshop
     
     
  • House with Fence
     
     
  • Banking on Youth
     
     
  • Teaching design for change
     
     
  • Baker-Ripley Neighborhood Center
     
     
  • High Costs Make It Harder To Grow Young Farmers
     
     
  • Saltwater Connections Project to Host March 8 Meeting in Buxton
     
     
  • Hope For a School Food Change!
     
     
  • New Community Project Guidelines and Application Posted
     
     
  • Sea Breeze Trail
     
     
  • Preserving Waterfront Access
     
     
  • Man on Bike with Fishing Pole
     
     
  • Local investing will change the face of small towns
     
     
  • Blue Bayou
     
     
  • The Culinary Trust is Offering Grants for Chefs Move to Schools Projects
     
     
  • Collaborative, Creative Placemaking: Good Public Art Depends on Good Public Spaces
     
     
  • Know Yourself to Boost Tourism
     
     
  • The Business of Local Foods: Kathleen Merrigan, Deputy Secretary, USDA
     
     
  • Locals help others through community gardens
     
     
  • Mazda Foundation Grant Program
     
     
  • New Oral History Project Online: Down the Bayou
     
     
  • 2011-2012 Beautiful Snow Photography Exhibition
     
     
  • Fishing for Energy Expands to Florida to Help Recycle and Recover Energy from Old Fishing Gear in Miami-Dade County
     
     
  • Benefit Seafood Dinner Set for December 6 in Hatteras
     
     
  • Creative industry has a place in business
     
     
  • Place Matters: How One Radio Show Makes the Case Every Week
     
     
  • What Attaches People to Their Communities?
     
     
  • Day at the Docks on September 17 Cancelled
     
     
  • Not just another pot pie
     
     
  • New website format
     
     
  • Heroes of the New South Awards
     
     

What’s New

  • Program helps fishermen market their catch
    May 18, 2012
    The spring brown shrimp season has begun. Many people are looking to buy fresh shrimp directly from shrimpers or the docks. And local shrimpers are looking to get just a little more money for their larger, premium-quality shrimp by selling directly to ...
  • How Government Can Unleash Small Business to Grow the Economy
    May 18, 2012
    Skip Schwarzman and Lynn Buono, co-owners  of Feast Your Eyes Catering in Philadelphia, nearly came to grief when expanding their business in their  hip, newly-renovated building. The expansion  consolidated several real estate parcels, each with a ...
  • Grant aims to get farm produce to students
    May 18, 2012
    To address the growing problem of child obesity in the state, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation has invested $1.2 million to get more produce from North Carolina farmers to school systems. The grant, which supports the Farm...
  • Cape Hatteras Students at Community Garden
    May 16, 2012
    Third graders from Cape Hatteras Elementary learn about the Native American Three Sisters Garden at the Community Garden in Buxton. Corn is planted to support beans that grow up the cornstalks and squash is also planted as a ground cover to protect t...
  • Seafood distribution hub proposed for former Navy homeport
    May 16, 2012
    Retired fisherman and fisheries biologist Bruce Maghan is proposing to the Jackson County Board of Supervisors a seafood distribution center on Singing River Island, the former Navy homeport. He called it a "working waterfront" and told the board Mo...
  • Atlas of Rural and Small-Town America
    May 16, 2012
    The Atlas assembles statistics on four broad categories of socioeconomic factors:  people, jobs, agriculture, and county classifications. Click here
  • Dear Photograph: New-Age Nostalgia
    May 15, 2012
    You may have heard of Dear Photograph, a website that invites readers to submit photos of photos — images from the past, set in the present. Over the past year, the website received thousands of submissions. In fact, enough for a book, also called De...
  • N.C. State incubator helps get student ventures off the ground
    May 12, 2012
    Even as they prepare to graduate Saturday, some of the first students to use N.C. State University’s “Entrepreneurs Garage” are about to spin off a small wave of fledgling businesses they dreamed up and honed there. The 2,000-square-foot space...

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