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Food Labeling: Navigating Your Food Business Series
Featured Navigating Your Food Business SeriesFood Labeling: Navigating Your Food Business Series Wednesday | Jun 03 | 1:00 PM — 2:15 PM Join Kate Nicholas with NC State Extension Food Safety on this webinar on best practices for food labeling for food entrepreneurs and existing food businesses. The session will conclude with a Q&A with the Extension Team. Register for this live [...]
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Food Labeling: Navigating Your Food Business Series
Featured Navigating Your Food Business SeriesFood Labeling: Navigating Your Food Business Series Wednesday | Jun 03 | 6:00 PM — 7:15 PM Join Kate Nicholas with NC State Extension Food Safety on this webinar on best practices for food labeling for food entrepreneurs and existing food businesses. The session will conclude with a Q&A with the Extension Team. Register for this live [...]
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Lunch and Learn: Companion Planting and Cover Crops
VirtualJoin CEFS and N.C. Cooperative Extension for the Lunch & Learn Webinar Series for 2026. Melissa Bell, CEFS Field Research, Education, and Outreach Liaison, will discuss how companion planting helps you harness natural processes to build a healthier farm or garden. Placing plants strategically can boost pollination, suppress weeds, and improve soil fertility. This session [...]
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Navigating Your Food Business Series: Retail Foods – Restaurants, Food Trucks & more
Featured Navigating Your Food Business SeriesRetail Foods: Restaurants, Food Trucks and more Wednesday | Jun 10 | 1:00 PM — 2:15 PM Register here: https://ncsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/mkR9tXDrRSyy52p4YfAckg Join NC State Extension as we welcome Ellen Shumaker and the Safe Plates Team on this webinar as we investigate food safety requirements for food entrepreneurs and existing food businesses in the retail food sector. Be sure to stay [...]
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Navigating Your Food Business Series: Retail Foods – Restaurants, Food Trucks & more
Featured Navigating Your Food Business SeriesRetail Foods: Restaurants, Food Trucks & more Wednesday | Jun 10 | 6:00 PM — 7:15 PM Join NC State Extension as we welcome Ellen Shumaker and the Safe Plates Team on this webinar as we investigate food safety requirements for food entrepreneurs and existing food businesses in the retail food sector. Be sure to stay and learn [...]
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Mid-Year Farm Business Review & Reporting
FeaturedJoin us as we walk through the process of evaluating farm business performance at the midpoint of the year. Participants will review financial records, production data, and key performance indicators to assess progress toward annual goals. This course focuses on organizing and interpreting mid-year data to identify strengths, address challenges, and support informed decision-making for [...]
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Agri-KidsFest at Marbles Kids Museum
Marbles Kids Museum 201 East Hargett Street, Raleigh, NC, United StatesJoin CEFS at the 2026 Agri-KidsFest at Marbles Kids Museum! For many years, the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) has celebrated the bounty of North Carolina through our signature Farm to Fork Picnic. This year, we're excited to introduce Grounded and Growing: A CEFS Farm to Fork Series, a year-long initiative designed to bridge [...]
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Lunch and Learn: Seasonal Maintenance of Cool Season Crops
VirtualJoin CEFS and N.C. Cooperative Extension for the Lunch & Learn Webinar Series for 2026. Melissa Bell, CEFS Field Research, Education, and Outreach Liaison, will discuss how to care for common cool-season crops including information about planting, fertilization, pest management, and cold weather protection unique to winter harvested or overwintering crops. This session is ideal [...]
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The Grounded Table – How Pasture-Raised Meat Supports Farms, Food and the Land
VirtualGo behind the scenes with NC’s top food system experts for a roadmap on sourcing sustainably, supporting local meat systems and understanding the future of NC ag with The Grounded Table webinar. In this session, Melissa Bell will host a conversation with guest speakers Sarah Blacklin and Lee Minus from NC Choices as well as [...]
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Lunch and Learn: Season Extension
VirtualJoin CEFS and N.C. Cooperative Extension for the Lunch & Learn Webinar Series for 2026. Melissa Bell, CEFS Field Research, Education, and Outreach Liaison, will explore techniques such as row covers and succession planting to extend harvests into late seasons. Learn research-based strategies to continue harvesting greens, root crops, and other hardy vegetables. This session [...]
