Dr. Cary Rivard: Rooted at CEFS, Trained for National Impact
Dr. Cary Rivard has always enjoyed eating tomatoes, but he also has a unique perspective on what it takes to grow them.
FoodCorps North Carolina and Farm-to-School: A Recipe for Healthy Kids
FoodCorps aims to change children's attitudes and behaviors towards food through nutrition education, school garden engagement, and increasing access to healthy, local produce through local farm to cafeteria pathways.
George Teague and Reedy Fork Dairy Farm: An Organic Legacy
"CEFS is the only place doing this kind of work. There's not anybody else in our climate and region doing research for us."
SWARM: Youth Food Activists Are Changing the World
Students Working for an Agricultural Revolutionary Movement (SWARM) has been applying the lessons of past civil rights and justice movements to the struggle for food equity.
Lowes Foods and Ariel Fugate: Bringing Local Foods to Retail Markets
At the front lines of Lowes Foods' local produce purchasing is Ariel Fugate, an NC State University graduate who now works for Lowes as their Locally Grown Accounts Representative, and NC A&T as liaison to the NC Growing Together project.
CEFS’ Research Farm: A Regional Resource, Addressing Global Challenges
Located on 2000 acres of Eastern North Carolina soils, the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services' (NCDA&CS) Cherry Farm in Goldsboro is home to CEFS' research farm.
CEFS’ End-of-Year Letter
Dear CEFS Supporter, What feeds your growth? There are so many ways to interpret, and answer, that question. Here at the Center for Environmental Farming Systems, it's one that we are examining for ourselves, our programs, and our organization. After celebrating our twentieth anniversary last year, we are now planning for our next twenty years [...]
Carolina Meat Conference Brings Entire Meat Supply Chain Together, Highlights Emerging Opportunities in New Markets
September 15, 2015: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Where else can you find James Beard Award-winning chef Andrea Reusing and Emmy Award-winning chef Vivian Howard rubbing shoulders with internationally-renowned pasture management advocate Allan Savory, alongside master butchers, commercial meat processors, and hundreds of rural livestock producers – all in the same room? “There is nothing else like [...]
Food Access in North Carolina Gets Major Funding
August 24, 2015: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Greensboro, NC: A $750,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation will help get to the root of food system inequities influenced by structural racism, in a project being led by The Cooperative Extension Program at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in conjunction with the Center for Environmental [...]
CEFS Grows “Pasture to Process” Programs for Livestock Producers with New Coordinators for Amazing Grazing and NC Choices Initiatives
May 19, 2015: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Raleigh, NC: The Center for Environmental Farming Systems is strengthening its capacity to serve North Carolina livestock producers by expanding its Amazing Grazing and NC Choices teams. Johnny Rogers will be Amazing Grazing’s new coordinator. Based at CEFS’ Pasture-Based Beef Unit, Amazing Grazing is a statewide educational initiative that [...]