Spring Greetings! We begin this letter by celebrating the wonderful success of our May 3rd CEFS Field Day. The NC Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services' Research Station staff, university faculty and students, the CEFS' programs and projects team, community partners, and farm apprentices worked together to create a truly memorable day for the nearly [...]
This summer, get ready for a new sight in Goldsboro: youth-powered rickshaws delivering farmers' market fruits and vegetables to areas of the community that have limited access to fresh produce. It's all part of the Produce Ped'lers program, a new CEFS initiative designed to address food access disparities in city neighborhoods. The program is funded [...]
Field Day attendees listen to Dr. Julie Grossman describe no-till organic corn production. CEFS held an official Field Day on May 3, 2012 to highlight its innovative research projects and community initiatives. More than 300 people gathered under clear skies at the CEFS Research Farm in Goldsboro, home to CEFS' eight research units. [...]
The NC 10% Campaign -- which encourages all North Carolinians to spend 10% of their existing food dollars on locally grown and produced foods -- has taken off in 2012! The Campaign's website is now tracking over $16 million in local foods purchases by more than 4900 individuals and 600 businesses. Partnerships are key to [...]
The NC 10% Campaign and the Park Scholars program at NC State have created a video to promote local foods on college campuses. The video will be seen all summer long at the NC State campus theater -- before every movie shown! Watch the video, "I'm a Local". From the May 2012 [...]
CEFS Research Associate Silvana Pietrosemoli shows off finished compost full of red wriggler worms. CEFS' new Composting Unit is up and running! Since 2011, CEFS has been composting waste products from the swine hoop houses and spreading the resulting compost on various fields across the research farm. The work is done by NCDA&CS farm [...]
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RALEIGH (May 7, 2012) —Tickets are now on sale for the 2012 Farm to Fork Picnic, held annually at the Breeze Farm in Orange County’s Hurdle Mills. The event – sponsored by the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS), Orange County/Breeze Farm Incubator, Slow Food Triangle, and the N.C. Agricultural Foundation – pairs some of [...]
For Immediate Release: May 1st, 2012 Download a printable .pdf of this press release. Media Contact Shorlette Ammons, Center for Environmental Farming Systems Ph: 919-288-0192 | sammonss@ncat.edu
For Immediate Release: March 20th, 2012 Download a printable .pdf of this press release. Media Contact Casey McKissick casey@ncchoices.com
