High-caliber organizations with demonstrated experience implementing Farm to School and school garden programs selected as inaugural host sites for 2011 RALEIGH (November 30, 2010) — 4-H and the Center for Environmental Farming Systems proudly announce their role as hosts for FoodCorps, a new national AmeriCorps school garden and Farm to School service program, launching in [...]
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, NC State University RALEIGH (November 23, 2010) — Since July, North Carolinians participating in the 10% Campaign have spent more than $2 million on food from local sources. The 10% Campaign is an effort to educate and encourage consumers to spend 10 percent of their food dollars on locally [...]
CARY, N.C. (November 4, 2010) — Enjoy a truly delicious, local Thanksgiving by shopping pre-Thanksgiving markets on Tuesday, Nov. 23, at five Triangle area markets. The Carrboro Farmers' Market, Durham Farmers' Market, Eno River Farmers Market in Hillsborough, South Estes Farmers' Market in Chapel Hill and the Western Wake Farmers' Market (WWFM) in Cary are [...]
New Company To Connect North Carolina Livestock Farmers with Consumers, Retailers and Restaurants Company Celebrates Opening of Sausage Wagon With Event October 28th at Fullsteam Brewery in Downtown Durham DURHAM, N.C. (October 18, 2010) — The Triangle food community will soon welcome an ambitious new company focused on delivering high quality local meats to area [...]
DURHAM, N.C. (September 17, 2010) — Farmhand Foods, LLC recently hired Drew Brown as a full-time product development specialist and distribution manager. Former owner and chef of Piedmont Restaurant in Durham, Drew brings extensive culinary experience and a passion for utilizing whole animals and producing value-added products. You can now find Farmhand Foods staff at [...]
31 Businesses/Organizations Already on Board to Support the 10% Campaign RALEIGH, N.C. (July 21, 2010) — The Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) today launched a new statewide effort to build North Carolina's local food economy. The 10% Campaign encourages consumers to spend 10 percent of their existing food dollars on foods produced in North [...]
Raleigh - (July 19th, 2010) Suzanne O'Connell, a graduate student in the Department of Horticultural Science, has been awarded a United States student Fulbright Fellowship from the U.S. Department of State to study abroad in Honduras for eight to 10 months. She will be conducting research on the use of cover cropping in the tropics [...]
RALEIGH, N.C. (June 11, 2010) — The Center for Environmental Farming Systems (www.cefs.ncsu.edu) is supporting the launch of Farmhand Foods, LLC, a branded meat company designed to help small-scale, pasture-based meat producers access local retail and food-service markets. With funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the N.C. Rural Economic Development Center, the N.C. Tobacco Trust [...]
RALEIGH, N.C. (April 21, 2010) — Building the state’s sustainable local food economy will stimulate economic development and job creation, bolster the viability of local farms and fisheries and help address diet-related health problems, reports North Carolina’s Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS), one of the nation’s most respected centers for the study of environmentally [...]
On February 25-26, 2010, the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) hosted six community teams for a two-day training workshop on building local food systems. With attendees representing Alexander, Burke, Catawba, Chatham, Cleveland, Gaston, Guilford, Jackson, Lee, Lenoir, Lincoln, Moore, Richmond and Swain counties, this CEFS training focused on participatory collaboration, expanding extension reach and [...]
