George Teague and Reedy Fork Dairy Farm: An Organic Legacy
See CEFS Impact Profiles: George Teague and Reedy Fork Dairy Farm: An Organic Legacy From the September 2014 E-Newsletter
Thank you to our 20th Anniversary SOILbration and Special Events Sponsors!
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
CEFS Offering “Pasture to Process” Programs for NC Meat Producers
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 [...]
“CONNECT Our Future” Food Systems Project
In 2013, the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS), Carolina Farm Stewardship Association (CFSA), and Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP) partnered with the Centralina Council of Governments and the Catawba Regional Council of Governments to support "CONNECT Our Future", a three-year initiative funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development [...]
Board Member Spotlight: Anya Gordon
Arthur and Anya Gordon at the Farm to Fork Picnic Anya Gordon, co-owner of Raleigh's Irregardless Café and Catering with her husband Arthur Gordon, has been on the CEFS board since 2010. Opened in 1975, The Irregardless Café was Raleigh's first vegetarian restaurant. The restaurant now serves vegetarians, vegans, and carnivores alike. Anya has [...]
Save the Date! NC Choices’ Women Working in the Meat Business Retreat, Nov 9-11
Join 30 women livestock farmers, butchers, processors, chefs, and professionals for two days and nights of hands-on learning with lead instructor and James Beard Award nominee Kari Underly, a third generation meat cutter and inventor of the flat iron steak. The retreat will be held in Chapel Hill, NC and is presented by NC Choices [...]
NC State’s Agroecology Education Farm is Growing!
CEFS collaborates with the NC State Agroecology Minor Program and its growing Agroecology Education Farm (AEF), which provides hands-on education about agroecology and sustainable agriculture to NC State students, staff, faculty and the surrounding community. The Agroecology Education Farm has been in development since 2007, when NC State's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences dedicated [...]
Happy Birthday to Us: CEFS Turns 20!
A special CEFS e-news dedicated to our twentieth anniversary CEFS' roots were planted in 1994, when a small circle of leaders in sustainable agriculture came together with the vision of creating a center for the study of environmentally sustainable farming practices in North Carolina. A task force of university faculty and administrators, state and federal [...]
CEFS Kicks Off 20th Anniversary at Special Reception Featuring Dr. Ricardo Salvador
Dr. Nancy Creamer, CEFS Co-Director from NC State; Dr. Ricardo Salvador; Dr. John M. O'Sullivan, CEFS Co-Director from NC A&T; and Dr. William Randle, Dean of the School of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences at NC A&T (L-R) CEFS kicked off its twentieth anniversary with a special reception on April 1 featuring Dr. Ricardo [...]
FoodCorps North Carolina and Farm-to-School: A Recipe for Healthy Kids
In honor of CEFS' 20th anniversary, this is the first in a series of stories exploring the impact that CEFS has made on the state of North Carolina and beyond. Radishes! Sitting around a table at a regional sustainable agriculture conference, North Carolina's FoodCorps service members exude youthful optimism. They are discussing what attracted [...]