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Coming soon— a visit to Wrenn’s Farm in Nash Co! Our video team is out today meeting young strawberry & flower farmers Christina and Austin Wrenn. Look for a story on flowers shortly before Mother’s Day! #NCFarmBureau
Craven County Farm to School week last week brought together all 4th graders from Jones & Craven counties for a farmer expo! #NCFarmBureau
Alamance County Farm Bureau Pres. @Tbonez57 was featured in PBS Newshour contributor Judy Woodruff's "America at a Crossroads" segment to talk about development in his formerly rural area and the ups-and-downs of that trend. #NCFarmBureau pbs.org/newshour/show/…
@CarolinaJournal spoke to #NCFarmBureau President @farmershawn66 about recently announced grants to strengthen the supply chain!
@CarolinaJournal spoke to #NCFarmBureau President @farmershawn66 about recently announced grants to strengthen the supply chain!
More Pamlico County Farm-to-School week fun! Later in the week the #NCFarmBureau Pamlico board and Women's Committee helped put on an event for middle-schoolers showing them equipment and teaching them about the source of their cafeteria food.
Congratulations to all the winners of our #NCFarmBureau @AgClassroom Going Local grants-- we know you will do great things!
Congratulations to all the winners of our #NCFarmBureau @AgClassroom Going Local grants-- we know you will do great things!
Volunteers are the heart and soul of Farm Bureau, selflessly giving their time and energy to make our organization and their communities stronger every day! We say "thank you" to all of our #NCFarmBureau volunteers this #NationalVolunteerWeek!
It's Pamlico County Farm to School Week, and students at Fred Anderson Elementary School had fun and learned all about ag during a Farmer Expo highlighting all the commodities grown, raised and caught in the county! #NCFarmBureau
Farming for a great cause at @SankofaFarms in Orange County! @NCFB_YFandR member Amber Bell tells @_LyndaLoveland all about it in this week's #NCFarmBureau Report.
As a native Cameroonian, Dr. Louis Jackai is not new to vegetable amaranth, but through the grant he has the opportunity to cultivate it at NC A&T, expose North Carolina to the crop and help small farms be more resilient. #NCFarmBureau
Funding was hard to come by for several years, but the Chinese Medicinal Herbs program in Mills River kept going & won a grant in 2023. Dr. Davis said NC’s soils and climate are good for herbs and the domestic and foreign markets are there to support the sector. #NCFarmBureau
Dr. Kathleen Liang says demand is high for other cultures’ specialty crops like kohlrabi or sweetpotato leaves, and her work has focused on growing them here and developing the markets for them. Grower Tom Savage showed some of those crops he’s growing. #NCFarmBureau
NC State Ph.D. student Michael Palmer’s grant-funded research is focused on the impact of chill hours on the flowering of strawberry tray plants toward developing best practices. #NCFarmBureau
Craft beer was booming in WNC, but the hops brewers in other regions were using just didn’t work in NC. That’s where Dr. Jeanine Davis & Dr. Luping Qu stepped in to undertake hops research at the Mountain Hort. Research Station and used a grant to develop varieties. #NCFarmBureau
Dr. Lexie McDaniel covered the study of Oh My and RazzMaTazz muscadine grape varieties and Extension resources funded by the program, and Jeff Bloodworth shared his extensive breeding research of muscadine. #NCFarmBureau
Dr. Penelope Perkins-Veazie’s interest in plants for human health guided her to goumi berries, which are rich in lycopene, potassium and magnesium. They are moderately sweet when harvested at the right time and have been under study in the Piedmont since 2020. #NCFarmBureau
Getting an update on the @NCAgriculture New & Emerging Crops Program today at @ncatcaes farm! Dean Shirley Hymon-Parker brings words of welcome to kick things off. #NCFarmBureau
One of the perks of participating in our #NCFarmBureau @NCFB_YFandR program is the opportunity to learn about agriculture across the state through events like farm tours! Our young farmers visited Wayne County this weekend. flickr.com/photos/ncfb/al…
#NCFarmBureau Women have gathered for a little time together this week, during a Women's Retreat hosted by Mitchell County Farm Bureau! flickr.com/photos/ncfb/al…
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