CEFS’ 2016 End-of-Year Letter: How Do You Invest in the Future?
We’re serious about changing the food system. With your help, we can do more.
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?
Five Questions with Gary Nabhan
Five questions with Gary Nabhan, ethnobiologist, nature writer, and agrarian activist.
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.
Hurricane Matthew Devastates Eastern North Carolina: Update from CEFS’ Field Research and Outreach Facility at Cherry Farm in Goldsboro
Water continues to be at record high levels and access to the livestock units (swine, dairy, and beef) is limited. We do have power and water pressure at those units which is a blessing. Currently, we are ferrying people in to milk and feed by boat. Milk is being dumped. Calving season has started (5 hit the ground today), with an expected 75-80 over the next two weeks. Water is now in the shop, service building, and possibly the office.
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.
Silvopasture getting closer look in Southeast
Dr. Alan Franzluebbers didn’t go looking for silvopasture; the practice was waiting for him. The research ecologist relocated four years ago to a position with North Carolina State University’s Department of Soil Science. Having researched pasture systems for more than a decade in Georgia, Franzluebbers inherited a silvopasture study already underway at the Center for Environmental Farming Systems in Goldsboro.
FoodCorps FoodTalks at Farm to Fork 2016
Three service members from FoodCorps NC gave brief "FoodTalks" at the 2016 Farm to Fork; listen to their stories about their experiences with kids, gardens, and cooking food.
CEFS Launches Statewide Initiative: Building a Sustainable Local Food Economy in North Carolina, from Farm to Fork – Spring 2008
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 [...]