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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
