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Center for Environmental Farming Systems - 25th Anniversary Video Series | Chapter 1: Founding Story

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Twenty-five years ago, a groundbreaking partnership was established in North Carolina. NC State University, NC Agricultural and Technical State University, and the NC Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services founded the Center for Environmental Farming Systems at Cherry Research Farm in Goldsboro on February 1, 1994. The Center was dedicated to long-term, large-scale sustainable agriculture research and demonstration, the first such site in the state of North Carolina. Then-NC Commissioner of Agriculture Jim Graham presided over the day’s events. At the time, he said, “He or she who plants thorns can never get roses. We’re planting roses today.” Non-profit organizations as diverse as the NC Farm Bureau Federation, Land Loss Prevention Project, Rural Advancement Foundation International - USA, and Carolina Farm Stewardship Association joined with farmers and citizens to advise the process. Listen to the story from the founders themselves... ...more
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Center for Environmental Farming Systems - 25th Anniversary Video Series | Chapter 1: Founding Story
Twenty-five years ago, a groundbreaking partnership was established in North Carolina. NC State University, NC Agricultural and Technical State University, and the NC Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services founded the Center for Environmental Farming Systems at Cherry Research Farm in Goldsboro on February 1, 1994. The Center was dedicated to long-term, large-scale sustainable agriculture research and demonstration, the first such site in the state of North Carolina. Then-NC Commissioner of Agriculture Jim Graham presided over the day’s events. At the time, he said, “He or she who plants thorns can never get roses. We’re planting roses today.” Non-profit organizations as diverse as the NC Farm Bureau Federation, Land Loss Prevention Project, Rural Advancement Foundation International - USA, and Carolina Farm Stewardship Association joined with farmers and citizens to advise the process. Listen to the story from the founders themselves...

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