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$1,675,000
818 Schloss Street, Wrightsville Beach, NC
Amazing ocean and sound views
$253,600
$625,000
825 Howes Point Place, Landfall
Lovely Landfall homesite
122 Lees Cut, Wrightsville Beach, NC
30’ boatslip, fully furnished, move-in ready
$759,000
213 N. Channel Drive, Wrightsville Beach, NC
With optional boat slip, walk to the elementary school
$5,000,000
1121 Pembroke Jones Drive, Landfall
Stunning waterfront home and boatslip
$799,000
6248 Towles Road, Wilmington, NC
Incredible quality-built home, mostly one level
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Rooted in its humble beginnings
with the peanut sheller, Full Belly
has expanded to, well, anything from
farm irrigation to personal hygiene,
creating products and devices at the
small workshop in Wilmington and
shipping them overseas.
Where possible, the products are
made from recycled materials found
locally. For instance, water pumps
that allow for foot-operated irriga-tion
are made with leftover PVC pipe
from construction sites and rubber
from Hughes Brothers, Inc., a nearby
tire store.
Recently, a dairy in Kenya
approached Full Belly looking for a
solution to keep milk from spoiling
before it could be taken to market.
Brandis is working on a product to
keep milk fresh by using a metal con-tainer,
a water cooler and discarded
cold packs from hospitals.
“Jock is constantly coming up with
ideas because there’s still so many
problems that we can potentially
solve with what we call appropriate
technology, tools that will work in a
developing context, without electric-ity
or running water and all that kind
of stuff,” Coulter says.
But Brandis is only one man, and
he needs help. That’s why the Full
Belly Project relies on volunteers, old
and young, to pick up the slack.
“We call ourselves Wilmington
Polytech,” he says.
His volunteers, ranging from high
school students to retirees, do every-thing
from welding to woodworking
and beyond. The workshop is littered
with tools and materials. A black cat
meanders between peanut shellers
and worktables containing inven-tions
in various stages of completion,
including Brandis’ latest project,
boards that could potentially be used
as construction materials in develop-ing
nations. They’re made from 500
plastic bags.
When the younger volunteers
are well behaved, they get to tin-ker
with a World War II English
motorcycle.