Nestled in the agricultural heart of North Carolina, Gaston County schools are attempting to source 10% of their produce locally. Students love the addition of fresh, local strawberries and watermelons to their menu, but how about collards? Collards in the Cafeteria follows the journey of this nutrient-rich leafy green from the fields to the county's [...]
NC Growing Together (NCGT) is sponsoring student teams at NC State Poole College of Management's Supply Chain Resource Cooperative and Consumer Innovation Consortium that are addressing pressing business and supply chain issues. NCGT is a CEFS-led initiative that is working to bring more locally-grown foods -- produce, meat, dairy, and seafood -- into mainstream retail and food service supply [...]
NPR's All Things Considered: Female Butchers Are Slicing Through The Meat World's Glass Ceiling WUNC's The State of Things: Women in the Meat Business WUNC's All Things Considered: North Carolina Women Seek Their Rightful Place in the Meat Business The Independent Weekly: Conference unites women across meat industry supply chain to address common issues Farm Aid's blog, Farm Aid's [...]
CEFS is expanding the Farm to Fork picnic to a whole weekend full of local food events in 2015! Mark your calendars for June 5 - 7 and plan to attend at least one of the three scheduled events, organized to raise funds for new farmer training programs. The weekend will kick off on Friday [...]
John M. O'Sullivan Dear Colleagues, Friends, and Supporters of CEFS, At the end of July, I retired after 31 years with the Cooperative Extension Program at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. It is amazing and inspiring to reflect back on how far we have come as a community and as a state [...]
Friday October 17 SOILbration: Healthy Soils, Healthy Farms, Healthy Foods A day-long educational event at CEFS' Research Farm in Goldsboro. Featuring speakers including Ray Archuleta and Steve Woodruff of Natural Resource Conservation Service, Fred Kirschenmann of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, exciting in-field demonstrations, farm tours, lunch and more! Saturday October 18 CEFS Reunion! [...]
See CEFS Impact Profiles: George Teague and Reedy Fork Dairy Farm: An Organic Legacy From the September 2014 E-Newsletter
Sustaining Sponsors Supporting Sponsor Nash Produce Steward Sponsor Mt. Olive Pickle Co. Guardian Sponsors Goldsboro Wayne Co. Travel & Tourism NC Blueberry Council, Inc. NC Dairy Producers Association Tri-County Electric Membership Corporation From the September 2014 E-Newsletter
Golden Leaf Foundation is helping CEFS provide "Pasture to Process" programs for meat producers in North Carolina. The Foundation awarded CEFS two years of funding (2014-2015) to "enhance economic viability across local niche meat supply chains." The funding will allow greater integration of two CEFS programs: Amazing Grazing, a pasture-based livestock educational initiative, and NC Choices, an initiative [...]
NC Growing Together (NCGT), a CEFS-led initiative working to bring more locally-grown foods into mainstream retail and food service supply chains, is partnering with NC State University, NC Cooperative Extension, and the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association (CFSA) to provide intensive, hands-on technical support to enable small-scale farmers to achieve Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) certification of their [...]
