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CEFS news, announcements, press releases and media coverage.
Welcome to Jennifer MacDougall, CEFS’ Newest Board Member
CEFS is happy to welcome Jennifer MacDougall, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation's Healthy Active Communities Program Manager, to its Board of Directors. Jennifer is from Cary NC and received both her B.S. [...]
CEFS Graduate Students Participate in Croatian Exchange Program
CEFS doctoral students Suzanne O'Connell (Horticultural and Soil Science) and Aaron Fox (Crop Science and Entomology) have recently returned from a month-long exchange program at the University of Zagreb in Croatia. The program is the [...]
Message From the Directors
Spring Greetings! We begin this letter by celebrating the wonderful success of our May 3rd CEFS Field Day. The NC Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services' Research Station staff, university faculty and students, the CEFS' [...]
CEFS and Community Partners Launch Produce Ped’lers Program
This summer, get ready for a new sight in Goldsboro: youth-powered rickshaws delivering farmers' market fruits and vegetables to areas of the community that have limited access to fresh produce. It's all part of the [...]
CEFS Field Day a Big Success!
Field Day attendees listen to Dr. Julie Grossman describe no-till organic corn production. CEFS held an official Field Day on May 3, 2012 to highlight its innovative research projects and community initiatives. More [...]
NC 10% Campaign: New Partnerships, Exciting Growth
The NC 10% Campaign -- which encourages all North Carolinians to spend 10% of their existing food dollars on locally grown and produced foods -- has taken off in 2012! The Campaign's website is now [...]
Be a Local!
The NC 10% Campaign and the Park Scholars program at NC State have created a video to promote local foods on college campuses. The video will be seen all summer long at [...]
New at the CEFS Research Farm: Composting Unit
CEFS Research Associate Silvana Pietrosemoli shows off finished compost full of red wriggler worms. CEFS' new Composting Unit is up and running! Since 2011, CEFS has been composting waste products from the swine hoop [...]
New Publications, Jan – May 2012
Brooks AM, Danehower DA, Murphy JP, Reberg-Horton SC, and Burton JD. Estimation of heritability of benzoxazinoid production in rye (Secale cereale) using gas chromatographic analysis. Plant Breeding (Ahead of Print). doi:10.1111/j.1439-0523.2011.01885.x Cubbage F, Glenn V, [...]
2012 Farm to Fork Picnic Tickets on Sale
RALEIGH (May 7, 2012) —Tickets are now on sale for the 2012 Farm to Fork Picnic, held annually at the Breeze Farm in Orange County’s Hurdle Mills. The event – sponsored by the Center for [...]