2024年11月21日 · The Local Food Program is excited to see everyone at the State Extension Conference January 6th-8th in Greensboro, NC! To help with finding session opportunities related to local food, we have created a table for easy access.

2010年1月1日 · The objective of the Extension Local Food Program is to facilitate the production, marketing, and consumption of food grown, caught, and raised within North Carolina. North Carolina Cooperative Extension and many organizations and stakeholders are working with our communities on development and expansion of local food systems across the state.

2025年2月3日 · When asked about what advice the team would give to other counties involved in local food work, their top suggestions all centered around building relationships within the local food system and broader local food network.

2020年8月31日 · To build capacity for the local food system in McDowell County Molly has led an effort to open Foothills Food Hub. The hub will include a warehouse, cold storage, an area for washing and packing, a teaching kitchen, a commercial kitchen, and other infrastructure to become a central hub for local food.

2024年12月2日 · On November 6th, over 50 NC State Extension professionals gathered together in Manteo, NC to “Go Local!” for the first ever joint conference between NC State Extension Community Rural Development (CRD), NC State Extension Local Food Program, and the North Carolina Association of Community Development Extension Professionals (NCACDEP).

2023年6月5日 · You can find a variety of social media information, tips and tricks, suggested posts and hashtags, and other useful resources with a quick internet search, but having some specific to local food, farming, and Extension can really make social media quick and easy to use.

The objective of the Extension Local Food Program is to facilitate the production, marketing, and consumption of food grown, caught, and raised within North Carolina. North Carolina Cooperative Extension and many organizations and stakeholders are working with our communities on development and expansion of local food systems across the state.

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This report “details the latest economic information on local food producers, consumers, and policy, relying on findings from several national surveys and a synthesis of recent literature to assess the current size of and recent trends in local and regional food systems.”

Though there is no generally agreed upon definition for ‘local’ food or ‘local food systems’ (Martinez, et al, 2010), the language of local food systems generally refers to the geographic context in which food is produced, marketed, and consumed and ...