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CEFS news, announcements, press releases and media coverage.
Thank You to our 20th Anniversary SOILbration and Special Events Sponsors!
Grand Sponsor Sustaining Sponsors Supporting Sponsors Biltmore Estate Nash Produce USDA-NRCS [...]
CEFS Developing New Initiative to Confront Structural Racism & Food Inequity
With leadership from NC Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T), CEFS is embarking on a new university/community collaboration to address structural racism and inequities in our food system. The developing initiative will build on [...]
CEFS Receives Over $2.5 Million in Competitive Grant Funding to Support Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education
Researchers at CEFS have received three separate grants totaling more than $2.5 million since July 2014 to support research and education at CEFS' 2000-acre research farm in Goldsboro and on farms across the state. In [...]
CEFS’ Community Food Strategies Initiative Working to Support, Coordinate Statewide Food Systems Work
"Building a network of networks" In 2008 and 2009, CEFS convened hundreds of food system stakeholders from across the state in "Farm to Fork", a groundbreaking exploration of action opportunities for building a local, [...]
Board Member Spotlight: The Honorable Eva Clayton
Eva Clayton Eva Clayton made history in November 1992 when she became the first woman elected to Congress from the State of North Carolina, and the first African American since 1901. Congresswoman Clayton represented [...]
NC 10% Campaign Releases Collards in the Cafeteria, A Video Taste of Farm-to-School in Gaston County
Nestled in the agricultural heart of North Carolina, Gaston County schools are attempting to source 10% of their produce locally. Students love the addition of fresh, local strawberries and watermelons to their menu, but how [...]
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 [...]
Center for Environmental Farming Systems Announces over $2.5 million in Competitive Grant Funding to Support Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 31, 2014 RALEIGH, NC: Researchers at the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) have received 3 separate grants totaling more than $2.5 million since July 2014 to support research and education [...]
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 [...]