FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 11, 2014 Goldsboro, NC – The Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) is hosting students from across the country and around the world at its Goldsboro research farm this summer. Twelve undergraduate students from North Carolina, Virginia, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania – and as far away as Brazil, Croatia, and South Korea [...]
A special CEFS e-news dedicated to our twentieth anniversary CEFS' roots were planted in 1994, when a small circle of leaders in sustainable agriculture came together with the vision of creating a center for the study of environmentally sustainable farming practices in North Carolina. A task force of university faculty and administrators, state and federal [...]
Dr. Nancy Creamer, CEFS Co-Director from NC State; Dr. Ricardo Salvador; Dr. John M. O'Sullivan, CEFS Co-Director from NC A&T; and Dr. William Randle, Dean of the School of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences at NC A&T (L-R) CEFS kicked off its twentieth anniversary with a special reception on April 1 featuring Dr. Ricardo [...]
In honor of CEFS' 20th anniversary, this is the first in a series of stories exploring the impact that CEFS has made on the state of North Carolina and beyond. Radishes! Sitting around a table at a regional sustainable agriculture conference, North Carolina's FoodCorps service members exude youthful optimism. They are discussing what attracted [...]
FARM TO FORK PICNIC: June 8 Buy your ticket now! Join a remarkable group of Piedmont farmers & cooks for an evening of food, live music, & fun....and discover why Bon Appetit magazine called Farm to Fork the "country's best all-you-can-eat-feast"! Co-hosted by CEFS, Friends of Breeze Farm, Slow Food Triangle and the North Carolina Agricultural [...]
Dear Friend, Greetings from the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS). We hope this letter finds you well, as another busy year winds down for all of us. As we write this, we are preparing to celebrate a very meaningful milestone here at CEFS: our 20th Anniversary. As CEFS has grown from a 2000-acre research [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 30, 2013: NC Choices' Carolina Meat Conference enters its third year of innovative educational programming and unparalleled networking opportunities for niche meat supply chain partners including farmers, processors, chefs, buyers and industry support businesses. The Carolina Meat Conference is a gathering of professionals from all sectors of the local and niche [...]
Dear CEFS Friends, I'm taking the opportunity to kick off the Fall 2013 CEFS e-newsletter and encourage you to browse the many interesting topics contained here. You'll find research, outreach and engagement updates from CEFS' programs across North Carolina. Welcome and enjoy! In addition, I have the great honor of informing you of my recent [...]
Dr. John M. O'Sullivan, Professor of Sustainable Agriculture, Local and Community Food Systems at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) and Co-Director of the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS), has been awarded The Order of the Long Leaf Pine by North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory. Conferring the title of "Ambassador Extraordinary", [...]
The NC 10% Campaign, a CEFS initiative that encourages all North Carolina individuals and businesses to spend 10% of their existing food dollars on locally-produced food, has hit a big milestone. The Campaign, which counts over 6700 individuals and 870 businesses among its supporters, has tracked more than $50 million in local foods purchases since [...]
