Show Up Series: Collaborative Food Action

In lieu of their regular in-person Statewide Food Council Gathering this year, Community Food Strategies is supporting safe, creative connections between food councils through the Show Up Series. 

Blueberry Selection and Planting Webinar

Join us for an hour long discussion on blueberry selection and planting! About this event A series of experts will present on the various opportunities and challenges that come with starting blueberry plots. We will also discuss how you can start growing blueberries in your own backyard. During this hour, there will be real-life examples [...]

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. [...]

Session V: Community Praxis Sharing in Farm to School

Session V Community Praxis Sharing in Farm to School Students and teams sharing How do we utilize our power in our local context to bring about change? How do we utilize collaboration to bring out change?   REGISTER HERE   Note: If you are interested in the other Racial Equity in Farm to School [...]

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 [...]