Enhancing Your Agribusiness Webinar Series Fall 2021

Enhancing Your Agribusiness Webinar Series EmPOWERING Mountain Food Systems (EMFS) & the Small Business Center Network partner to bring you brilliant FREE webinars on Thursdays at 6pm in September and October of 2021. Adding an AirBnB to your Agritourism Operation (Thursday, Sept. 16th at 6pm): Ready to diversify your current Agribusiness income? Want to host overnight [...]

Designing a Food Forest for Your Backyard

Virtual

Join us and a panel of agroecology and permaculture experts to learn about food forests and design ideas for a small backyard space.

NC State-USDA Hackathon

NC State University Mary Anne Fox Laboratory 2791 Pillsbury Cir North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States

Please come join us for a joint NC State University (NC State) and USDA ARS Ag tech Hackathon to accelerate agricultural sustainability using computer vision, machine learning, and robotics. The event will center around uses of the new BenchBot, a low cost robot intended as a generalizable platform for sensing growing plants on greenhouse benches. [...]

Farming for Ecological Outcomes

Virtual

Join us for a webinar describing the effects of long-term farming system choices on soil organic matter, nutrient cycling, and more!

Fall Agripreneur Business Summit

EMFS & the Small Business Center Network partner to bring you this full-day, free, online event for "agripreneurs" interested in starting or growing a farm or food-based business. Special guest speakers from Appalachian Farm School, NC Cooperative Extension, Sequoyah Fund, tenBiz, Empowering Mountain Food Systems, and more!  When: Tuesday, November 30, 2021, 9am - 3pm Where: [...]

2021 Regional Agritourism Seminar – Virtual

Are you excited about the recent wave of agritourism opportunities in WNC? Want to learn more? Want to share your insights? Join us!  NC State tourism experts listened to 26 farmers and tourism leaders from the region and identified a need for storytelling as a tool to increase visitation to agritourism operations in Western NC. They [...]

Harnessing the Data Revolution for Resilient Agriculture

Join the N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative Symposium & Reception for Harnessing the Data Revolution for Resilient Agriculture. This symposium will feature discussions on how the North Carolina Plant Sciences Initiative (N.C. PSI) can break down barriers in attempts to solve the challenges of the future. A rapidly growing population, less farmland, climate and water shifts, [...]

2021 Agribusiness Summit

EMFS & the Small Business Center Network partner to bring you this full-day, free, online event for "agripreneurs" interested in starting or growing a farm or food-based business. The 2021 Virtual Agribusiness Summit features new, relevant and exciting topics for current and prospective agribusinesses. The online format will allow you to access the content from [...]

2021 High Tunnel Winter Vegetable Field Day

Many cool- and cold-season vegetables grow well in high tunnels during North Carolina’s relatively mild winters. North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s Extension Horticulture Team has conducted trials at the University Farm on cut-and-come-back salad greens (baby lettuce mix, mustard greens mix and spinach mix), leafy vegetables (bok choi/pac choy, head lettuce, Swiss chard, [...]