Dr. Cary Rivard has always enjoyed eating tomatoes, but he also has a unique perspective on what it takes to grow them.

FoodCorps aims to change children's attitudes and behaviors towards food through nutrition education, school garden engagement, and increasing access to healthy, local produce through local farm to cafeteria pathways.

"CEFS is the only place doing this kind of work. There's not anybody else in our climate and region doing research for us."

Students Working for an Agricultural Revolutionary Movement (SWARM) has been applying the lessons of past civil rights and justice movements to the struggle for food equity.

At the front lines of Lowes Foods' local produce purchasing is Ariel Fugate, an NC State University graduate who now works for Lowes as their Locally Grown Accounts Representative, and NC A&T as liaison to the NC Growing Together project.

Located on 2000 acres of Eastern North Carolina soils, the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services' (NCDA&CS) Cherry Farm in Goldsboro is home to CEFS' research farm.