Past E-News & CEFS Happenings
Welcome to the E-News archive of the Center for Environmental Farming Systems. Whether you’re just curious about what we’ve been up to through the years or you’re looking for a specific announcement or article that has come and gone, this is the place to read about it. Here is a list of our recent e-Newsletters:
View a summary list of our e-Newsletters before 2014.
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NC Growing Together Sponsors MBA Feasibility Study of Locally-Sourced Bagged Frozen Produce
NC Growing Together (NCGT) is sponsoring student teams at NC State Poole College of Management's Supply Chain Resource Cooperative and Consumer Innovation Consortium that are addressing pressing business and supply chain issues. NCGT is a CEFS-led initiative that is [...]
Press Coverage of NC Choices’ Women Working in the Meat Business
NPR's All Things Considered: Female Butchers Are Slicing Through The Meat World's Glass Ceiling WUNC's The State of Things: Women in the Meat Business WUNC's All Things Considered: North Carolina Women Seek Their Rightful Place in the [...]
Save the Date! Farm to Fork weekend, June 5-7, 2015
CEFS is expanding the Farm to Fork picnic to a whole weekend full of local food events in 2015! Mark your calendars for June 5 - 7 and plan to attend at least one of [...]
Message from the Director
John M. O'Sullivan Dear Colleagues, Friends, and Supporters of CEFS, At the end of July, I retired after 31 years with the Cooperative Extension Program at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. It [...]
Please Join Us for CEFS’ 20th Anniversary Special Events!
Friday October 17 SOILbration: Healthy Soils, Healthy Farms, Healthy Foods A day-long educational event at CEFS' Research Farm in Goldsboro. Featuring speakers including Ray Archuleta and Steve Woodruff of Natural Resource Conservation Service, Fred Kirschenmann [...]
George Teague and Reedy Fork Dairy Farm: An Organic Legacy
See CEFS Impact Profiles: George Teague and Reedy Fork Dairy Farm: An Organic Legacy From the September 2014 E-Newsletter
Thank you to our 20th Anniversary SOILbration and Special Events Sponsors!
Sustaining Sponsors Supporting Sponsor Nash Produce Steward Sponsor Mt. Olive Pickle Co. Guardian Sponsors Goldsboro Wayne Co. Travel & Tourism NC Blueberry Council, Inc. NC Dairy Producers Association Tri-County Electric Membership [...]
CEFS Offering “Pasture to Process” Programs for NC Meat Producers
Golden Leaf Foundation is helping CEFS provide "Pasture to Process" programs for meat producers in North Carolina. The Foundation awarded CEFS two years of funding (2014-2015) to "enhance economic viability across local niche meat supply [...]
NC Growing Together Support Helps Small Farmers Achieve GAPs Certification
NC Growing Together (NCGT), a CEFS-led initiative working to bring more locally-grown foods into mainstream retail and food service supply chains, is partnering with NC State University, NC Cooperative Extension, and the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association [...]
“CONNECT Our Future” Food Systems Project
In 2013, the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS), Carolina Farm Stewardship Association (CFSA), and Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP) partnered with the Centralina Council of Governments and the Catawba Regional Council of Governments to [...]