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CEFS news, announcements, press releases and media coverage.
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
Board Member Spotlight: Anya Gordon
Arthur and Anya Gordon at the Farm to Fork Picnic Anya Gordon, co-owner of Raleigh's Irregardless Café and Catering with her husband Arthur Gordon, has been on the CEFS board since 2010. Opened in [...]