John M. O'Sullivan Dear Colleagues, Friends, and Supporters of CEFS, At the end of July, I retired after 31 years with the Cooperative Extension Program at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. It is amazing and inspiring to reflect back on how far we have come as a community and as a state [...]
Friday October 17 SOILbration: Healthy Soils, Healthy Farms, Healthy Foods A day-long educational event at CEFS' Research Farm in Goldsboro. Featuring speakers including Ray Archuleta and Steve Woodruff of Natural Resource Conservation Service, Fred Kirschenmann of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, exciting in-field demonstrations, farm tours, lunch and more! Saturday October 18 CEFS Reunion! [...]
See CEFS Impact Profiles: George Teague and Reedy Fork Dairy Farm: An Organic Legacy From the September 2014 E-Newsletter
Sustaining Sponsors Supporting Sponsor Nash Produce Steward Sponsor Mt. Olive Pickle Co. Guardian Sponsors Goldsboro Wayne Co. Travel & Tourism NC Blueberry Council, Inc. NC Dairy Producers Association Tri-County Electric Membership Corporation From the September 2014 E-Newsletter
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 [...]
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 [...]
