The Ultimate Marketing Roadmap for Your Meat Business - a Webinar March 5, 2018
Join us Monday, March 5th as NC Choices’ hosts The Ultimate Marketing Roadmap for your Meat Business webinar featuring marketing coach and …
The Franklin County Center Local Foods contacts are Charles Mitchell, Martha Mobley.
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Farmers' Market Vendor Meeting
To: Franklin County Farmers’ Market Vendors From: Charles F. Mitchell, Franklin County Director Pat Walker, Farmers Market Manager As you know, it …
Register for the Extension Gardener Short Course
2018 Extension Gardener Short Course Learn how to create and care for a beautiful, bountiful and life-sustaining landscape this spring …
Input on the North Carolina Fruit and Vegetable Outlet Inventory
Are you familiar with the North Carolina Fruit and Vegetable Outlet Inventory? Our colleagues at the North Carolina Department …
2018 Successful Small Farms Opportunities Conference - Saturday, February 17
Small farms continue growing in Franklin County and surrounding counties! The popular, annual Successful Small Farms Opportunities Conference will …
Small Food Processors: 2018 Preventive Controls for Human Food Courses
NC State Extension is offering training and assistance to small food processors on preventive controls for human foods. The course …
Train-the-Trainer Agritourism Workshops
The Economic Impacts Work Group of NC Extension’s Local Food Program Team is conducting a series of train-the-trainer one …
Special Poultry Processing Exemption Extended Another Year
In an effort to support poultry farmers across the state, Dr. Beth Yongue, Director of NCDA&CS Meat and Poultry …
Registration Open for Food Business Conference
Early-bird registration deadline is Friday, January 5. RALEIGH, N.C. – The N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services will host …
Small Farms Interest Meeting
A Small Farms Interest Meeting will take place at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017, at Franklin County Cooperative Extension, in Louisburg. At the …
Farm to Table
BY: Pat Walker, Franklin County Farmers’ Market Manager Pulling up to the Farmers’ Market shelter in the early morning brings …
Helping to Feed the Future
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations predicts that by 2050 the world’s population will be …
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- Bluebird Hill Pecans
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- Capritopia Farm
- Cedar Rock Farm
- Clover C Farm
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- Dreams Farm
- Fat Radish Farm
- Fort Clux Farm
- Franklin County Farmers' Market
- Irene's Happy Hens
- Little Lot Farm
- Lucky 3 Farm
- Mae Farm Meats
- Meadow Lane Farm
- North Forty Ranch
- Rare Earth Farms, LLC
- Ray Family Farms
- Runamuck Farm
- S&L Family Farm
- Simply Pastured
- Soggy Dog Farm
- The Collard Patch
- Vollmer Farm
- Walk Ahead Farms
- Wheeler Ranch
- Wood's Strawberries
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- Backyard Flocks and Eggs (from poultry.ces.ncsu.edu)
- Extension Publications on Local Foods
- From Farm to Fork: A Guide to Building North Carolina's Sustainable Local Food Economy
- Growing Small Farms - NCCE Chatham County Center
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