Currituck Extension offers information on the meat supply chain By Cameron Lowe, Currituck Extension You have likely seen much on the news and floating around social media in regards to potential meat shortages due to COVID-19. But what is the real story? While there have certainly been disruptions in the supply chain getting meat to [...]
First in Future: Food and Hunger Join us for part five of the series with guests Mike Darrow (Executive Director, Feeding the Carolinas) Tessa Thraves (Farm to School Coordinator, NC State University Center for Environmental Farming Systems) and Sarah Blacklin (Program Director for NC Choices, NC State University Center for Environmental Farming Systems) as we [...]
May 21 @ 8:00 am - 3:00 pm Solar grazing has the potential to serve as a win/win for sheep producers and solar companies. Join us at Rogers Cattle Company to learn how sheep producers have opportunities to contract for vegetation management and how solar companies can potentially save money while helping the environment and [...]
July 25 @ 9:00am - 4:45pm | $25 Silvopasture, the intentional practice of integrating forages, animals and trees, is one type of agroforestry with potential to improve ecosystem responses and provide multiple sources of farm income. Are you interested in successfully transitioning or starting a silvopasture system? Join us for a workshop, field day, and [...]
Dear CEFS Supporter, What feeds your growth? There are so many ways to interpret, and answer, that question. Here at the Center for Environmental Farming Systems, it's one that we are examining for ourselves, our programs, and our organization. After celebrating our twentieth anniversary last year, we are now planning for our next twenty years [...]
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 [...]
View the story on YouTube: CEFS 2013 Sustainable Agriculture Lecturer: MAYA WILEY
See (and hear) the story at WUNC 91.5: Exploring Gaps In America's Food System From The Farm To The Table By Nicole Campbell & Frank Stasio
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 [...]
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 [...]
