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Center for Environmental Farming Systems Announces over $2.5 million in Competitive Grant Funding to Support Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 31, 2014 RALEIGH, NC: Researchers at the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) have received 3 separate grants totaling more than $2.5 million since July 2014 to support research and education at CEFS’ 2000-acre research farm in Goldsboro and on farms across the state. In September, CEFS researchers were awarded $1,415,833 [...]

CEFS2016-11-26T09:31:48-05:00October 31st, 2014|Press Release|

Message from the Director

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 [...]

CEFS2016-11-26T09:31:49-05:00September 21st, 2014|E-News|

Please Join Us for CEFS’ 20th Anniversary Special Events!

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! [...]

CEFS2016-06-16T14:27:39-04:00September 21st, 2014|20th Anniversary, E-News|

George Teague and Reedy Fork Dairy Farm: An Organic Legacy

See CEFS Impact Profiles: George Teague and Reedy Fork Dairy Farm: An Organic Legacy From the September 2014 E-Newsletter

CEFS2016-06-16T14:27:39-04:00September 21st, 2014|E-News|

Thank you to our 20th Anniversary SOILbration and Special Events Sponsors!

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

CEFS2016-11-26T09:31:50-05:00September 21st, 2014|20th Anniversary, E-News|

CEFS Offering “Pasture to Process” Programs for NC Meat Producers

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 [...]

CEFS2016-11-26T09:31:54-05:00September 21st, 2014|Amazing Grazing, E-News, NC Choices|

“CONNECT Our Future” Food Systems Project

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 [...]

CEFS2016-11-26T09:31:59-05:00September 21st, 2014|E-News|

Board Member Spotlight: Anya Gordon

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 [...]

CEFS2016-11-26T09:32:00-05:00September 21st, 2014|Board Member, E-News|

Save the Date! NC Choices’ Women Working in the Meat Business Retreat, Nov 9-11

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 [...]

CEFS2016-11-26T09:32:01-05:00September 21st, 2014|E-News, NC Choices|

NC State’s Agroecology Education Farm is Growing!

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 [...]

CEFS2016-11-26T09:32:02-05:00September 21st, 2014|Agroecology, E-News|

The Center for Environmental Farming Systems is a partnership of North Carolina State University, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, and the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

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