Sustainable Agriculture News & Resources
Twilight Tour: Vegetable Transplanting
Twilight Tour: Vegetable Transplanting
Wednesday, April 9, 6:00-8:00pm
Leaders: Ken Fater & Steve Moore (NCSU)
Workshop Registration: FREE
Call 919-513-0954 or email cefs_info@ncsu.edu to hold your spot. Registration is limited to 15 people per tour
Registration is required for all events unless otherwise noted.
Unless stated otherwise, all events will be held at the Center for
Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS), located at Cherry Research Farm,
201 Stevens Mill Rd., Goldsboro, NC 27530.
All NCSU employees and NC Cooperative Extension Agents are required to register through the iLMS System.
Travel reimbursement for agents is available through the Sustainable
Agriculture Research & Education Program - Professional Development
Program (SARE-PDP).
Seasons of Sustainable Agriculture
The Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) presents Seasons of Sustainable Agriculture, where you can take classes to learn about gardening with kids, web marketing for your farm, biofuel production, buying local, etc. I have listed all the options below. If you'd like to read more about these courses or register for any (or many!) of them, please visit the CEFS website.
Center for Environmental Farming Systems
The Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) is an internationally recognized Center of Excellence for Sustainable Agriculture supporting the growth of vibrant farms where healthy
products are produced in ways that steward the land and its people. CEFS is a leader in research, innovation, and service for the agricultural community. The Center provides support for new and transitioning farmers, contributes high quality research to the sustainable agriculture knowledge base, and offers educational programs to local, national, and international audiences.
The Center for Environmental Farming Systems develops and promotes food and farming systems that protect the environment, strengthen local communities, and provide economic opportunities in North Carolina and beyond.
History
The Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) was established in 1994 by North Carolina State University, North Carolina A&T State University, and the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to serve as a center dedicated to sustainable agriculture research, extension, and education. CEFS was the result of several years of work by a task force of university faculty and administrators, state and federal agencies, non-governmental organizations, farmers, and citizens charged with developing a strategy to build a strong sustainable agriculture program in North Carolina. Located at the Cherry Research Farm near Goldsboro, CEFS began its sustainable agriculture programming in 1996. Today, CEFS is one of the nation’s largest centers for the study of environmentally sustainable farming practices.
Sustainable Ag Key to Reducing Poverty, Hunger
If the world is committed to reducing poverty and achieving sustainable economic growth, the powers of using agriculture for development must be unleashed, the World Bank said Friday.
Promoting agriculture, the bank said in its World Development Report, is essential for meeting the Millennium Development Goal of reducing poverty and hunger by half by 2015 and continuing to do so for several decades thereafter.
URGENT ACTION ALERT
What: On May
17 Chairman Collin Peterson (D-MN) introduced his 2007 Farm Bill Proposal in
which no new sign-ups for the Conservation Security Program (CSP) are
authorized until 2012. In effect, this decision kills the CSP program for
the life of the new farm bill. Funding that is currently dedicated for
CSP is instead shifted under the Peterson proposal to increase funding for the
Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), a program that provides
conservation cost share but also currently subsidizes the development and
expansion of factory farms.
Action Needed: Phone calls or faxed letters are needed no later
than Monday May 21 to members of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on
Conservation, Credit, Rural Development, and Research (see list of members at
the end of the alert attachment). These members, who will be meeting on
May 22 to debate the Chairman’s bill, must stand up and express their
disapproval that 2007 Farm Bill funding for the Conservation Security Program
(CSP) be gutted to increase funding for the Environmental Quality Incentives
Program (EQIP) over and above its current $1.3 billion a year.
Sustainable Food Experts Reveal Complex Global Food Supply
May 18, 2007 - It's a choice consumers face every day in the produce aisle. Sometimes the organic produce on the shelves has been shipped halfway around the world in a plane that emitted a significant amount of greenhouse gases. But what if the locally grown alternative has been treated with pesticides?
ACTION ALERT
5/1/07 - The Land
Stewardship Project has been working to ensure that the Legislature
creates an ongoing organics program at the University [of Minnesota] and expands
funding for alternative livestock research and outreach at the
University’s (MISA).
FAO, USDA ink agreement to enhance cooperation
The UN Food
and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has signed an agreement with the
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to enhance cooperation
to support the development of global agriculture system, especially in
developing countries like India.
The agreement will enable USDA funds and resources to be mobilised to support FAO projects promoting sustainable agricultural development and the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals in developing countries.
Yuman loves odor of poo; it smells like success
Business stinks for organic fertilizer firm, and that's
good
Dugan LaRose's business stinks, and he's happy about that.
Dugan LaRose owns Natural Ag, a Yuma, Arizona company that is part of a national trend in agricultural fertilizers, where more and more folks are ditching the chemicals and going back to the original fertilizer, liquefied poo.
Alice Waters at Expo West
Alice Waters is a celebrated chef, award-winning author and owner of 
Restaurant in Berkeley, California. A champion of small, local, organic farms and ranches for more than three decades, Waters is credited for helping change the food landscape in America. Waters is also the Vice President of Slow Food, an international organization based in Italy that works to protect and preserve traditional foods and the communities that produce them. Her long list of prestigious awards includes Lifetime Achievement Award, James Beard Foundation, 2004; Force For Nature Award, Natural Resources Defense Council, 2004; Best Restaurant in America, Gourmet Magazine, 2001; Lifetime Achievement Award, Bon Appetit magazine 2000.
National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture
A National Organic Action Plan: What will organic look like in the next 10-20 years?
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