Save the Date for Events Coming Your Way
Save the date for these exciting 2017 events hosted by NC Choices and friends!
Farmers plant seeds for local growth: Orange County farms’ direct-to-consumer sales are part of a national trend
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 2007’s and 2012 Censuses, the number of Orange County farms that sell straight to consumers has increased by 54 percent since 2007.
CEFS’ 2016 End-of-Year Letter: How Do You Invest in the Future?
We’re serious about changing the food system. With your help, we can do more.
Five Questions with Gary Nabhan
Five questions with Gary Nabhan, ethnobiologist, nature writer, and agrarian activist.
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), [...]