2021-390-E-Health-Transplanting Traditions Community Farm, Inc.-Outside agency agreement

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Outside Agencies/Human Services Cover Page Page 8 of 24 AGENCY INFORMATION Please provide the following information about your agency: 1. Date of Incorporation (Month/Year): February, 2018 2. Agency’s Purpose/Mission (no more than a few sentences): Transplanting Traditions Community Farm (TTCF) works with refugees from Burma to foster a healthier community and maintain agricultural traditions as they build new lives in North Carolina. The heart of TTCF is an eight-acre farm in Orange County where refugee families grow food, build farm businesses, celebrate culture, and create a sense of home. The farm is at the core of TTCF’s Youth Leadership program, providing space for refugee teens to explore identity, leadership, culture, and community, and also supports TTCF’s hunger reduction programs including “Share a Share”, an innovative model that provides food insecure refugee families a share of the culturally appropriate traditional produce grown by TTCF farmers. Founded in 2009 as a project of the Orange County Partnership for Young Children, TTCF became an independent 501(c)(3) in August 2018 to focus more deeply on serving refugees through the lens of food, agriculture, and social justice. TTCF provides resources and support for refugee families to come together to foster a healthier community, gaining income while maintaining valuable agricultural traditions as they build new lives in the Piedmont of North Carolina. 3. Please provide a brief description of your organization’s past achievements in carrying out similar projects and evidence of successful record of meeting proposed budgets and timetables (no more than 100 words). Since TTCF began providing business training for refugee farmers in 2011, farmers have directly earned over $620,777 in farm income. Over 93,000 lbs. of food were grown on the farm in 2019. According to TTCF data on numbers of refugees from Burma receiving food grown at TTCF, 82% of refugees from Burma living in Orange County received food from TTCF in 2019. Since 2010, TTCF staff has provided weekly educational workshops including agricultural business and marketing topics. TTCF has partnered with PORCH for 4 years and through the Share a Share program has brought in a cumulative total of $34,091 in income to farmers and donated 9,745 lbs. of traditional produce to refugee families in need. In 2019, TTCF provided 3,242 pounds of culturally appropriate food to refugee families served through PORCH bringing in $12,393 in income to TTCF farmers almost doubling 2018 farmer income. TTCF began its refugee teen leadership program in 2013 and since then has overseen the growth and national recognition. 4. Living Wage: Does this agency pay permanent employees a minimum living wage? Yes If yes, is this agency an Orange County Living Wage Certified Employer? No If no, please briefly explain. EXHIBIT A: OUTSIDE AGENCY APPLICATION DocuSign Envelope ID: 66ABF05D-3901-46A1-B9FA-1504EA6C1C2E