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  • Navigating Your Food Business: In Person Networking and Food Safety

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    NC Cooperative Extension - Madison County 258 Carolina Lane, 28753, Marshall, NC, United States

    Join leaders from NC State University, NC Cooperative Extension, and the EmPOWERing Mountain Food Systems Initiative for a tour of their shared kitchen facilities, hear real success stories and gain food safety insights. Special guests include the Got To Be NC Program and local food safety regulators. Get the new food safety implementation guide and [...]

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  • Meat and a knife

    Ensuring Quality from Pasture to Plate: A Meat Quality & Marketing Training

    N.C. Cooperative Extension, Randolph County Center 1880 US Hwy 64E, Asheboro, NC, United States

    Join NC Choices’ for a producer-oriented program, Ensuring Quality from Pasture to Plate: A Meat Quality & Marketing Training, taking you from pasture to package - covering live animal evaluation, nutrition, carcass assessment, and bulk sales strategy. We’ll examine every stage of the process to understand how farm management and nutrition decisions directly impact product [...]

  • outdoor farmstand featuring sunflowers and baskets of various vegetables

    Homestead to Side Hustle

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    NC Cooperative Extension - Madison County 258 Carolina Lane, 28753, Marshall, NC, United States

    Learn how to turn what you already grow and make into a scalable, income-generating side business with practical tools and guidance Turn your backyard skills into real income. Homestead to Side Hustle is a practical class designed for folks who want to make money from what they already grow, raise, or create. Whether you’re selling eggs, preserves, [...]

    $15.00

  • outdoor farmstand featuring sunflowers and baskets of various vegetables

    Thinking of Opening a Farm Stand? Agribusiness Series

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    Agribusiness Series Join EMFS and the Small Business Center as we explore topics essential to farmers and the small businesses that work with farmers and food. Thinking of Opening a Farm Stand? Speaker: Carol Coulter Owning and operating a farmstand in North Carolina can be a source of income and an opportunity to expand your marketing opportunities. Carol Coulter recently [...]

  • Children seated at a table making fruit skewers with a CEFS staff member

    2026 Farm to Early Care and Education Institute

    Rocky Mount Event Center 285 NE Main St, Rocky Mount, NC, United States

    Join us at the 2026 Farm to Early Care and Education Institute! CEFS is happy to honor the hard work from the Farm to Early Childhood Education Local Food Purchasing Collaborative, as well as look to the future and continue incorporating agriculture, farming and gardening in the lives of children and in childcare development centers. [...]

  • Food is the Product for Sale: Agribusiness Series

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    Agribusiness Series Join EMFS, and the Small Business Center as we explore topics essential to farmers and the small businesses that work with farmers and food. Food is the Product for Sale Speaker: Dani Black Seeing business planning as a process (rather than an overwhelming project) helps articulate concept, organize the work, and connect to resources to build a [...]

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