Save the Date for Events Coming Your Way
Save the date for these exciting 2017 events hosted by NC Choices and friends!
Women Working in Meat Supply Chains Lead the Way in Reducing Food Waste
While there’s increased interest nationally in local pastured meat, peoples’ purchasing habits and tastes have been conditioned by our industrial food system over the past 50 years to just a handful of cuts. So what happens to the rest of it?
NC Choices’ Carolina Meat Conference featured on PBS’ A Chef’s Life
NC Choices' Carolina Meat Conference was featured on PBS' award-winning A Chef's Life with Vivian Howard.
Women Butchers and Farmers Are Growing in Number, Especially in North Carolina
A butchery demo by Kari Underly is like an improv comedy sketch. At Cane Creek Farm in Graham on Sunday, she rolls with the shouts and whispers from the crowd while sawing through a whole lamb.
Huffington Post and Modern Farmer Magazine Cover Women in Meat: Women Mean Business at This Meat Industry Conference
Hillary Clinton isn’t the only one cracking the glass ceiling. An annual conference called Women Working in the Meat Business has been empowering female attendees since 2013.
NC Choices’ Women Working in the Meat Business Conference Evolves to Meet Business Needs of Growing Industry
The sold out NC Choices’ Women Working in the Meat Business Conference will host more than 70 women from all over the country in Orange County, NC for three packed days of hands-on training, learning, and networking October 2-4, 2016.
The Changing Face of Agriculture: Women Working in the Meat Business
Ask your average American, “what does a farmer look like?”, and you are likely to get an outdated answer. In fact, if you Google the question, images of men dominate the search results. But the demographics of farming are changing: according to the USDA, the number of women-operated farms increased nearly three-fold from 1978 to [...]
CEFS’ NC Choices Director Sarah Blacklin Recognized by Farm Credit in National Search for 100 Fresh Perspectives Shaping Rural America and Agriculture
March 15, 2016: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RALEIGH, North Carolina -- Sarah Blacklin, Program Director of NC Choices, is among the visionaries being recognized nationally through Farm Credit 100 Fresh Perspectives, a search to identify and honor 100 leaders who are changing rural communities and agriculture for the better. NC Choices is an initiative of the [...]
Carolina Meat Conference Brings Entire Meat Supply Chain Together, Highlights Emerging Opportunities in New Markets
September 15, 2015: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Where else can you find James Beard Award-winning chef Andrea Reusing and Emmy Award-winning chef Vivian Howard rubbing shoulders with internationally-renowned pasture management advocate Allan Savory, alongside master butchers, commercial meat processors, and hundreds of rural livestock producers – all in the same room? “There is nothing else like [...]
CEFS Grows “Pasture to Process” Programs for Livestock Producers with New Coordinators for Amazing Grazing and NC Choices Initiatives
May 19, 2015: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Raleigh, NC: The Center for Environmental Farming Systems is strengthening its capacity to serve North Carolina livestock producers by expanding its Amazing Grazing and NC Choices teams. Johnny Rogers will be Amazing Grazing’s new coordinator. Based at CEFS’ Pasture-Based Beef Unit, Amazing Grazing is a statewide educational initiative that [...]