Woodards's Garage & Grocery is a cooperate workshop and lab that centers culture work across mediums. Mechanics, play-wrights, chefs, filmmakers, welders, textile and fashion designers converge to bring ideas and skills together for the betterment of all. We pool our resources, talents, skills, money, and other forms of wealth. We celebrate the process not just the end result, taking inventory of the lessons at every phase of the work and how that grows us as individuals and as a part of an interdependent and intergenerational ecosystem.
Learn about our membership model, and apply here.
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Lab & supper club
A witness space, celebrating every phase of making. Centering imagination and the growth of ideas, a safe space for edits— not critique.
Culinary artists testing recipes before they go onto menus, hearing what memories or ideas the experience brings up in real time. Cooks and chefs, alike.
When no one is piloting food, a locally sourced menu curated by Gabrielle E. W. Carter and her collective will provide us a nourishing foundation for the featured artist.
Screenings, table reads, garment/ textile collection viewings, winemakers, mixologist, anything from our makers at every phase is welcome to apply for LAB.
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Garage
A cooperative workshop that brings tradesmen and artists together.
Sign up through the week to use the garage for your projects and consult with neighborhood experts, including the original founder of the the garage, Mayfield Woodard and his mentees.
Upcoming cooperative projects will be shared with everyone in the community, anyone who signs up to put work into the project will have access to using the collective work for up to 1-week. This project library formula is still a work in progress, expect changes as the idea evolves.
Members have full use of the machinery on site. Accessories and lunch available at the grocery.
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grocery
Local, foraged, and garden grown ingredients. Fresh eggs and baked bread, available daily. A small deli-style menu, sweets, and espresso available throughout the day, Wednesday - Friday.
Local wine and beer, cookbooks, coffee, found things and folk art from home and afar.
Ferments and condiments like seasonal fruit preserves, vinegars and hot sauce all made in house.
Pick up your bi-weekly CSA, through Tall Grass Food Box. Centering the sustainability of Black owned farms in North Carolina. Learn more about Tall Grass HERE.
