February 27: CEFS' Annual Sustainable Agriculture Lecture Featuring Food Justice Advocate Maya Wiley Maya Wiley Please join CEFS and the NC Agricultural Foundation Inc., for CEFS' Annual Sustainable Agriculture Lecture Featuring Maya Wiley, on February 27 at 7 pm at the Durham Armory. Ms. Wiley will present a free lecture entitled "Unmasking Inequities: Building [...]
RALEIGH, February 11, 2013: The Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) has been awarded the first year’s funding of a five- year, $3.9 million grant to build and evaluate supply chains for local farmers and fishers to supply large-scale markets in North Carolina. The grant was awarded by the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative, part [...]
By Andrew Meier, Superintendent, Cherry Research Farm February 2013 The Farm crew has been busy during the past month! They have been working with university faculty and other volunteers to prune the Loblollys and some Longleaf pines in the agroforestry plots. The winter season always includes general cleanup and maintenance of our equipment, buildings and [...]
RALEIGH (January 25, 2013): The Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) and the NC Agricultural Foundation Inc., are proud to announce that Maya Wiley will deliver CEFS’ Annual Sustainable Agriculture Lecture on February 27 at 7 pm at the Durham Armory (220 Foster Street, Durham, NC 27701). Ms. Wiley will present a free lecture entitled [...]
RALEIGH (December 5, 2012): The Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) has released a new report entitled Conservation Practices in Outdoor Hog Production Systems: Findings and Recommendations from the Center for Environmental Farming Systems. The report details different strategies for reducing the environmental impacts of outdoor hog production systems, which can pose environmental risks if not [...]
Dear Friend, We are coming to the close of a truly momentous year at the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS), and we want to include you in our success, our gratitude, and our rejoicing. For nearly twenty years CEFS has been innovating, designing, and delivering progressive sustainable agriculture research, extension, and education to the [...]
In recent months, CEFS' local food systems programming has received significant national and international attention, which we have been excited and honored to receive. In fact, our two Directors' schedules can barely keep up! In early October, CEFS was awarded the regional APLU (Association of Public and Land Grant Universities) C. Peter Magrath Award for [...]
Dr. Norman Wirzba, a Research Professor of Theology, Ecology, and Rural Life at Duke University Divinity School and a Research Professor at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, joined the CEFS Board of Advisors in 2011. Dr. Wirzba grew up farming a mixed hay and grain operation in southern Alberta. He says, [...]
SWARM, the CEFS-supported youth food activist group based in Goldsboro, was recently invited by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina to present at a youth empowerment event of the Clinton Global Initiative. As part of the program moderated by Chelsea Clinton, SWARMer Zion Culley, along with two youth from MGR Foundation in Pittsburgh [...]
Farmhand Foods, a CEFS-incubated business that aggregates, distributes, and markets high-quality, locally-raised, pasture-based beef and pork products from a network of 30+ livestock producers, has been selected as a "Study Hub" by the Wallace Center at Winrock International. The US Department of Agriculture defines a food hub as a business or organization that connects producers [...]
