Golden Leaf Foundation is helping CEFS provide "Pasture to Process" programs for meat producers in North Carolina. The Foundation awarded CEFS two years of funding (2014-2015) to "enhance economic viability across local niche meat supply chains." The funding will allow greater integration of two CEFS programs: Amazing Grazing, a pasture-based livestock educational initiative, and NC Choices, an initiative [...]
NC Growing Together (NCGT), a CEFS-led initiative working to bring more locally-grown foods into mainstream retail and food service supply chains, is partnering with NC State University, NC Cooperative Extension, and the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association (CFSA) to provide intensive, hands-on technical support to enable small-scale farmers to achieve Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) certification of their [...]
In 2013, the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS), Carolina Farm Stewardship Association (CFSA), and Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP) partnered with the Centralina Council of Governments and the Catawba Regional Council of Governments to support "CONNECT Our Future", a three-year initiative funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development [...]
Arthur and Anya Gordon at the Farm to Fork Picnic Anya Gordon, co-owner of Raleigh's Irregardless Café and Catering with her husband Arthur Gordon, has been on the CEFS board since 2010. Opened in 1975, The Irregardless Café was Raleigh's first vegetarian restaurant. The restaurant now serves vegetarians, vegans, and carnivores alike. Anya has [...]
Join 30 women livestock farmers, butchers, processors, chefs, and professionals for two days and nights of hands-on learning with lead instructor and James Beard Award nominee Kari Underly, a third generation meat cutter and inventor of the flat iron steak. The retreat will be held in Chapel Hill, NC and is presented by NC Choices [...]
CEFS collaborates with the NC State Agroecology Minor Program and its growing Agroecology Education Farm (AEF), which provides hands-on education about agroecology and sustainable agriculture to NC State students, staff, faculty and the surrounding community. The Agroecology Education Farm has been in development since 2007, when NC State's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences dedicated [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 12, 2014 Raleigh, NC: The Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS), one of the nation’s foremost centers for research, extension, and education in sustainable agriculture and local food systems, will be hosting sustainable agriculture pioneer Fred Kirschenmann as part of its twentieth anniversary special events. Mr. Kirschenmann, Distinguished Fellow at the [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 8, 2014 Raleigh, NC: The Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS), one of the nation’s foremost centers for research, extension, and education in sustainable agriculture and local food systems, is celebrating its twentieth anniversary in 2014 with special programs and events. On Friday, October 17, CEFS is partnering with the Natural [...]
RALEIGH, NC, August 5, 2014: Shorlette Ammons, CEFS’ Community-Based Food Systems Outreach Coordinator, has produced a report on gender, race, and the food system entitled Shining a Light in Dark Places: Raising Up the Work of Southern Women of Color in the Food System. The work was completed as part of a year-long Food Equity [...]
Raleigh, NC, July 23, 2014 – Dr. Nancy Creamer, distinguished professor and director for the Center for Environmental Farming Systems in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at NC State University, has been appointed to the board of the newly created USDA Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research (FFAR). USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced in a news release the creation of [...]
