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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
April 28, 2015: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Raleigh, NC: Several NC State-based staff from the Center for Environmental Farming Systems were honored recently for their outreach and engagement efforts. Awards were presented at the annual NC State Outreach and Engagement Awards Celebration on April 13. NC Choices Program Manager Sarah Blacklin was presented with the NC [...]
April 8, 2015: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Raleigh, NC: The NC 10% Campaign, an initiative of the Center for Environmental Farming Systems, has been awarded a two-year, $78,547 grant from the Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education - Professional Development Program (SARE-PDP) of the United States Department of Agriculture. The grant was awarded through North Carolina Agricultural [...]
Raleigh, NC: NC Choices, an initiative of the Center for Environmental Farming Systems that promotes the advancement of local, niche and pasture-based meat supply chains, has released a six-part video series on processing local meat products in NC. The videos are intended to illustrate some of the services available at small-scale processing facilities that can [...]
Events To Raise Funds for New Farmer Training Programs and Shine Light on Sustainable Fishing and Farming Needs in North Carolina and Nationwide FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 31, 2015 RALEIGH, NC: Farm to Fork announced today its expansion from a single event, the Farm to Fork Picnic, into a three-day weekend of events that will [...]
NC Choices Advances Local, Niche and Pasture-based Meat Supply Chains FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 19, 2015 RALEIGH, NC: James West's family raised hogs outdoors for generations. West's father stopped in 1992 when industry consolidation drove hog production indoors. Two decades later, the economics for small-scale hog production are becoming more favorable as markets respond to [...]
