Are you a new or beginning farmer with some production experience?
Are you ready to take it to the next level?
Are you stuck in creating your farm business plan?
Then you need NC Farm School.
This 8-session class teaches the business of farming, budgeting, marketing, and making sense of the paperwork.
In addition, we also have four farm field days where we visit area farms and learn from successful farmers about how they began.
Want to know more? Register for one of our information session here. Or, visit the NC Farm School webpage here.
Apply today for the AgVentures grant
This grant is for farmers who want to make improvements, expand, or diversify their operation. The grant is for up to $8,000 for new and innovative agriculture project ideas. Applications due Dec. 15, 2021.
There is an information coming up on Dec. 1 at 4:30PM. Register Here
Your Input is Vital - Durham Comprehensive Plan Revision
The Durham City-County Planning Department is inviting everyone to be a part of determining the types of places you want to see in Durham County. Your input is vital to help guide the process to ensure voices in agriculture are heard.
If you would like to be a part of this process and learn more, please join a Community Zoom meeting.
Basic information will be shared at all meetings, with a portion of the meeting broadly focused on a general area of Durham.
Jordan Spicola, a NCSU mechanical engineering student working on developing an completely automated aerial agricultural sprayer systems would like to gather input from farmers. He will do a short interview about how useful you might think a system like this would be.
Please reach out if you have time to help Jordan with their project.
Be on the lookout! Spotted Lantern Fly found in VA!!
If you see or suspect that you see a Spotted Lanternfly, please take a picture and submit it in an email to badbug@ncagr.gov or you can call the North Carolina Department of Agriculture at 919-707-3730.
Want to learn more?
This video about the Spotted Lanternfly was created for the NC Winegrowers Assn virtual conference earlier this year: Spotted Lanternfly - YouTube.
FACT farming mentorship program accepting applications
The Food Animal Concerns Trust (FACT) is accepting applications for both mentors and mentees to join their 2022 Humane Farming Mentorship Program.
This program is for beginning farmers who want to partner with established farmers.
If you are interested in learning more, they are holding an information session Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021 @ 4:30PM.
Register Here
For information about FACT or their programs check out their website here.
NC State University and N.C. A&T State University work in tandem, along with federal, state and local governments, to form a strategic partnership called N.C. Cooperative Extension.
