Educational Material

Educational/Instructional Food & Ag Resources for Time at Home

• Cooking Activities with Kids (F2ECE)
  • Cooking with Children: Shamrock Smoothie
  • Cooking with Children: Heart Kabobs
  • Cooking with Children: Lemonade with Stevia
• Blueberry Pruning Workshop
• Building a Pollinator Garden at the Agroecology Education Farm
• North Carolina Growing Together (NCGT) Webinar Series
• Vegetable Gardening 101 – NC State Extension
• Farm to Dorm Cooking Videos (NC10%)
  • Sweet Potato and Black Bean Bowl
  • Watermelon Salsa
  • Kale Chips
  • Blueberry Balsamic Grilled Cheese Sandwich
• Teaching Tools for Beginning Farmers:
  • Profitable Meat Marketing
  • Pastured Pork
  • Pastured Small Ruminants
  • Pastured Poultry
  • Pastured Beef
  • Grazing in Solar Farms
  • Silvopasture
  • Best Practices in On-Farm Poultry Processing
• Extension Overview of Local Food Systems Online Professional Development Certificate Program (Registration is open until 3/31/2020)
• BIPOC-led How to Videos, Gardening Projects, and Online Learning Resources, compiled by Soul Fire Farm
• 4-H Stem and Agriculture Activities

Free seasonal livestock and pasture management webinar series – April 16 – May 21
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/livestock-webinar-series-tickets-101633654998

Inspiring videos from the NC 10% Campaign:

• Collards in the Cafeteria – Collards In the Cafeteria follows the journey of this nutrient-rich leafy green from the fields to Gaston County’s Central Kitchen, where they are cooked and processed in a Wonka-like fashion for the Gaston County Schools. The Director of School Nutrition shares the secret of the final step; getting students to try and, perhaps, even love this classic Southern side dish.
• Freshly Retired – The story of how a Director of Culinary Services and chef met the increasing demand for fresh food by residents at a continuing care retirement community in Charlotte, N.C.
• Ugly & Wild: Learning to Love N.C. Fish – Over the last decade, nearly 40% of N.C. fish houses have closed due to increasing demand for imported seafood; which is familiar and cheap, but from obscure sources using unknown practices. UGLY & WILD explores how Locals Seafood has created new connections with coastal fishing families to bring one of the state’s last wild foods to a dinner plate near you.
• What Can Be – How an economic development project is nurturing a resilient local food economy in Warrenton, North Carolina. Learn about the economic impacts of building regional food systems and what can be in small rural communities.

More on CEFS Youtube and Resources webpage