NC Choices’ Carolina Meat Conference featured on PBS’ A Chef’s Life
NC Choices' Carolina Meat Conference was featured on PBS' award-winning A Chef's Life with Vivian Howard.
Hurricane Matthew Devastates Eastern North Carolina: Update from CEFS’ Field Research and Outreach Facility at Cherry Farm in Goldsboro
Water continues to be at record high levels and access to the livestock units (swine, dairy, and beef) is limited. We do have power and water pressure at those units which is a blessing. Currently, we are ferrying people in to milk and feed by boat. Milk is being dumped. Calving season has started (5 hit the ground today), with an expected 75-80 over the next two weeks. Water is now in the shop, service building, and possibly the office.
Women Butchers and Farmers Are Growing in Number, Especially in North Carolina
A butchery demo by Kari Underly is like an improv comedy sketch. At Cane Creek Farm in Graham on Sunday, she rolls with the shouts and whispers from the crowd while sawing through a whole lamb.
NC Choices’ Women Working in the Meat Business Conference Evolves to Meet Business Needs of Growing Industry
The sold out NC Choices’ Women Working in the Meat Business Conference will host more than 70 women from all over the country in Orange County, NC for three packed days of hands-on training, learning, and networking October 2-4, 2016.
Women Mean Business at this Meat Industry Conference
"Women Mean Business at this Meat Industry Conference," by Dan Nosowitz, Modern Farmer
Center for Environmental Farming Systems’ New Local Food Economies Initiative Will Support Local Governments in Local Food Systems Work
September 15, 2016: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Rebecca Dunning, Project Manager, NC Growing Together, rddunnin@ncsu.edu or 919-389-2220 Raleigh, NC: The Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) has launched a new initiative to engage local governments in the work of building local food systems. Local Food Economies (LFE) is part of NC Growing Together (NCGT), [...]
Young Activists Fill the Carrack with Intimate Portraits of Food Justice in Reframing Food
"Young Activists Fill the Carrack with Intimate Portraits of Food Justice in Reframing Food," by Victoria Bouloubasis, Indy Week
Silvopasture getting closer look in Southeast
Dr. Alan Franzluebbers didn’t go looking for silvopasture; the practice was waiting for him. The research ecologist relocated four years ago to a position with North Carolina State University’s Department of Soil Science. Having researched pasture systems for more than a decade in Georgia, Franzluebbers inherited a silvopasture study already underway at the Center for Environmental Farming Systems in Goldsboro.
Raleigh’s Well Fed Community Garden nourishes the body and soul
"Raleigh's Well Fed Community Garden nourishes the body and soul," by Brian Adornetto, WRAL
Southern Cover Crop Conference Leads to New Resources and Excitement for Cover Crops
Over two days in July 2016, the Center for Environmental Farming Systems and Southern SARE hosted the first-ever Southern Cover Crop Conference. Researchers, farmers, extension agents, and natural resource personnel from across the Southern region gathered to learn about and discuss cover crops at CEFS’ Field Research and Outreach Facility at Cherry Farm in Goldsboro and the University of Mount Olive (UMO).