Organic Production Focus Groups for the Carolinas (BIPOC Farmers)
VirtualCertified organic farmers and those transitioning to organic are invited to share their experience in this focus group.
Certified organic farmers and those transitioning to organic are invited to share their experience in this focus group.
A monthly virtual meetup to talk high tunnels with other farmers, discuss regional issues, and share successes. Each meetup will center on a different topic.
CFSA’s Sustainable Agriculture Conference, 39 years strong, brings together farmers, food systems changemakers, and community leaders from across the Carolinas for a weekend of learning and community focused on advancing local, sustainable, and organic agriculture. Each conference features practical workshops, an expansive trade show, and plenty of networking opportunities, all curated with the rich, diverse […]
Farming While Black is an award-winning feature-length documentary film that examines the historical plight of Black farmers in the United States and the rising generation reclaiming their rightful ownership of land and reconnecting with their ancestral roots.
This comprehensive workshop teaches hands-on mushroom inoculation using straw and logs. Learn about the necessary equipment, and perform the steps of inoculating bags and logs to take home!
Gain hands-on experience in all steps of poultry processing, from humane slaughter to plucking, evisceration, cleaning, cooling, and packaging.
Learn how two market gardens blend perennial systems with nutrient-dense vegetable production to create three dimensions of a dynamic garden: soil fertility, perennial plantings, and cooperation.
Join organic growers, service providers, and industry professionals for a farmer-led series of discussions, demonstrations, and panels focused on improving management strategies, maintaining healthy soil, and strengthening peer-to-peer networks in the Carolinas
Learn how a productive and profitable diverse market farm applies regenerative agricultural principles small-scale vegetable and flower operations.
Learn how a productive and profitable diverse market farm applies regenerative agricultural principles small-scale vegetable and flower operations.
Learn about managing wooded areas, meadows, and riparian buffers and how to apply these concepts to each unique piece of land through keyline management, an approach that emphasizes whole-farm planning and involves a landscape-scale understanding of the relationship between topography and water movement.
The Urban Community AgriNomics (UCAN) team shares how their small minority-founded nonprofit recast a dilapidated farmstead and former plantation into Catawba Trail Farm, an agricultural education center, community garden, and agritourism destination.
