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We serve Hertford, Bertie, and Northampton Counties in Northeastern NC.

The Cultivator is a nonprofit human services organization dedicated to empowering communities in Northeastern North Carolina by promoting rural literacy, food access, creativity, storytelling, and nature.

Together, we cultivate a future where every individual has the opportunity to thrive.

We cultivate rural literacy.

Through the Cultivator Bookstore and Book Mobile, we cultivate rural literacy through free book boxes and free book community events across our service area, and also through the Annual Roanoke Chowan Literacy Festival.

The Cultivator Bookstore and Book Mobile

We cultivate rural food access.

Through free food boxes, monthly mobile food distribution, and free or affordable community meals, we cultivate rural food access across our service area. We also provide food access through the Hertford County Hospitality and Mutual Aid program. Additionally, we have distributed Healthy Food Boxes through the Healthy Opportunities Pilot Program.

Food Access

    We cultivate creativity in youth development.

    With programs like the Cultivator’s Freedom Players Youth Theatre Group and the Cultivator Seeds of Change, an at-risk youth program with NC JCPC, as well as book giveaways at schools, we cultivate creativity in youth development.

    Freedom Players Youth Theatre Group

    We cultivate history through storytelling.

    Through the Cultivator’s Hertford County African American History Coalition, we cultivate and promote history through storytelling through projects like the Revolutionary Women of Hertford County Exhibit, community gatherings like the Annual Juneteenth Celebration, and through the placement of historic markers across our service area.

    Hertford County African American History Coalition

    We cultivate love for nature.

    We cultivate love for nature through the promotion of nature education, development of community hiking trails and nature preservation, as well as through projects such as The Worrel’s Mill Historic site.

    Board of Directors

    • Tim Hayes – President
    • Amanda Lashbrook Hoggard – Secretary & Treasurer
    • Caroline Stephenson – Executive Director

    Members at Large

    • Booker Daniel
    • Eric Dye
    • Dr Elizabeth Dreesen
    • Dawn R.
    • Kim Hoggard
    • Sarah Parmale
    • Jackie Ruffin-Pittman
    • Morgan Rashida Stiff
    • Mayor Yahmale Vaughan
    • Jameese Watson
    • Darlene Wiggins