FARM TO FORK PICNIC: June 8 Buy your ticket now! Join a remarkable group of Piedmont farmers & cooks for an evening of food, live music, & fun....and discover why Bon Appetit magazine called Farm to Fork the "country's best all-you-can-eat-feast"! Co-hosted by CEFS, Friends of Breeze Farm, Slow Food Triangle and the North Carolina Agricultural [...]
Teisha hard at work! Teisha Wymore, CEFS' Farm to Fork Action Plan Operation Manager, recently visited Cuba as part of a summer study abroad course in Sustainable Tourism development. Through the program, offered by Eastern Carolina University, Teisha was able to witness firsthand the country's thriving organic production sector and accompanying agri-tourism industry . [...]
RALEIGH, May 31, 2013: Will Cramer is the successful farm manager behind Ever Laughter Farm just north of Hillsborough. He and his business partner Sam Hummel, along with friends and interns, cultivate nearly 40 different vegetable crops year-round on 4 acres, and sell at four weekly farmers’ markets. But when Cramer was starting out five years [...]
February 27: CEFS' Annual Sustainable Agriculture Lecture Featuring Food Justice Advocate Maya Wiley Maya Wiley Please join CEFS and the NC Agricultural Foundation Inc., for CEFS' Annual Sustainable Agriculture Lecture Featuring Maya Wiley, on February 27 at 7 pm at the Durham Armory. Ms. Wiley will present a free lecture entitled "Unmasking Inequities: Building [...]
Register now for NC Choices' 2nd Annual Carolina Meat Conference, December 3 & 4 in Bermuda Run, NC. Join a diverse group of professionals within the local and niche meat industry for two days of panel discussions, workshops, networking and demonstrations! Topics include cured meats in retail and foodservice, efficiency in small plants, regulatory issues, [...]
RALEIGH (May 7, 2012) —Tickets are now on sale for the 2012 Farm to Fork Picnic, held annually at the Breeze Farm in Orange County’s Hurdle Mills. The event – sponsored by the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS), Orange County/Breeze Farm Incubator, Slow Food Triangle, and the N.C. Agricultural Foundation – pairs some of [...]
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 [...]
Inaugural Meeting of the N.C. SLFAC Scheduled for Feb. 2 The North Carolina Sustainable Local Food Advisory Council will meet for the first time Tuesday, Feb. 2 at the State Fairgrounds. The council will meet from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the Martin Building. The public is strongly encouraged to attend. The advisory council [...]
We are pleased to announce that over the next year, the Center for Environmental Farming Systems has been funded to reach out across the state and together with our partners ask: What will it take to build a sustainable local food economy in North Carolina? From the mountains to the coast, various organizations are promoting [...]
