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CEFS news, announcements, press releases and media coverage.
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 [...]
Under Secretary of USDA to Help Launch Produce Ped’lers Program
For Immediate Release: May 1st, 2012 Download a printable .pdf of this press release. Media Contact Shorlette Ammons, Center for Environmental Farming Systems Ph: 919-288-0192 | sammonss@ncat.edu
NC Choices Receives Support from the NC Rural Center to Assist Commercial Meat Processors
For Immediate Release: March 20th, 2012 Download a printable .pdf of this press release. Media Contact Casey McKissick casey@ncchoices.com
Lowes Foods Pledges Support to the North Carolina 10% Campaign
RALEIGH (March 7, 2012) —Lowe’s Foods Stores, Inc. of Winston-Salem has signed on as a major partner of the 10% Campaign, a North Carolina initiative designed to encourage consumers to spend 10 percent of their [...]
Message from the Directors
Winter Greetings from CEFS! We are very happy to report that a number of our local foods initiatives are blossoming within the North Carolina Cooperative Extension organization. NC State University and NC Agricultural & Technical [...]
New CEFS Research Unit: Pasture-Based Meat Goats
Goats have been spotted at CEFS' 2000-acre research farm in Goldsboro, NC! The new Pasture-Based Meat Goat Unit has been developed on roughly 5 acres of land and includes a herd of Boer females that [...]