The Third Annual Carolina Meat Conference, December 9-10 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 [...]
September 23, 2013: For Immediate Release Raleigh, NC: Shorlette Ammons, CEFS’ Community-Based Food Systems Outreach Coordinator, has been awarded a one-year Food Equity fellowship by the Center for Social Inclusion (CSI). Based in New York, CSI is a national public policy strategy organization that works to unite public policy research and grassroots advocacy to transform [...]
September 20, 2013: For Immediate Release Raleigh, NC: The Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) is pleased to announce that Teisha Wymore will begin serving as the new Farm to Fork Action Plan Operations Manager, effective immediately. Ms. Wymore has served CEFS in several capacities over the last few years, most recently as the State [...]
August 9, 2013: For Immediate Release Raleigh, NC: Dr. John M. O’Sullivan, Professor of Sustainable Agriculture, Local and Community Food Systems at NC Agricultural and Technical State University (NCA&TSU) 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. [...]
RALEIGH, August 5, 2013: The NC 10% Campaign, which 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 6500 individuals and 850 businesses among its supporters, has tracked $40 million in local foods purchases since July [...]
Welcome to the June 2013 e-news! Below you'll meet some of our wonderful CEFS people: our Board Chair, Cheryl Queen; our new apprentices; and our new Small Farm Unit Manager. You'll also read about some of our ongoing work including our recent Women Working in the Meat Business Retreat, the cutting-edge research happening at our 2000-acre [...]
CEFS’ Farming Systems Research Unit (FSRU) is one of seven research units at CEFS’ 2000-acre research facility in Goldsboro, NC. Situated on approximately 81 hectares (200+ acres) of pastures, woodlands, and permanent agricultural land, the unit houses a long-term, large-scale interdisciplinary study of five different systems: 1) Best Management Practices (BMP) in a Conventional Cash [...]
Cheryl Queen Cheryl Queen, Chair of the CEFS Board of Advisors, leads communication and corporate affairs for Compass Group USA, the leading contract food and support services company with annual revenue of $12 billion. Within that role she has also shaped the company's corporate responsibility initiatives including support of family farms and local economies, [...]
Youth Food Advisory Council members and adult allies at FYI's first training gathering, Storytelling as a Tool for Advocacy, March 2013 CEFS, in cooperation with various community partners, is piloting a statewide youth food advisory council to support the development of youth networks and train youth in capacity-building for food advocacy work. The effort [...]
CEFS is excited to welcome Marisa Benzle, former Small Farm Unit Apprentice, back to CEFS as the Small Farm Unit Manager. Here, Marisa tells us about what has inspired her sustainable agriculture journey, from Ohio to CEFS to The Gambia, West Africa, and back. Marisa did her Peace Corps service in The Gambia, [...]
