Hi Everyone!  Many of you are familiar with our statewide local foods work, but do you know that central to CEFS work is a 2000 acre research facility in Goldsboro North Carolina where many faculty and graduate students are conducting innovative sustainable and organic agricultural research in a variety of different crop and animal production systems. This research serves as the basis of much of what we do.  

It has been a few years since we hosted a "Field Day" where we showcase the research going on.  Please consider joining us on that day.  The Field Day will be held on May 3, 2012 and  will begin at 12:30 with registration (program beginning at 1:00 PM), and include a dinner after the tours at 5:30 (a great $10.00 value!).  We will also be hosting two open houses that are pre-field day, beginning at 11:00 AM:   The first is at our integrated crop/animal certified organic Small Farm Unit, and the second focuses on the Community work in Goldsboro NC.  For more information and to register (space is limited, registration required)  go to:  www.cefs.ncsu.edu.  See the attached postcard for more details, and please circulate this to your listservs!

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Nancy Creamer, Director
Center for  Environmental Farming Systems
Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Agriculture
  and Community Based Food Systems
North Carolina State University
Campus Box 7609
Raleigh, NC 27695
919-515-9447
www.cefs.ncsu.edu