Resources
- Agroforestry
- BioSecurity
- Community Development
- Community & School Gardens
- Farm Management and Marketing
- Farm Safety and Health
- Food Equity
- Horticulture
- Livestock/Poultry
- Local Foods
- New, Beginning and/or Young Farmers
NCA&T
- Alley Cropping – factsheet
- Silvopasture – factsheet
NCA&T Collaborations
- Profitable Farms and Woodlands: A Practical Guide in Agroforestry for Landowners, Farmers and Ranchers – guidebook
- Assessment of the Adoption of Agroforestry Technologies by Limited-Resource Farmers in North Carolina – journal article
- Tomato Organic Management and Improvement Project (TOMI)
Other Publications
- Silvopasture Establishment and Management Principles for Pine Forests – handbook
- Underserved Forest Landowner Workshops: Opportunities for Landowners and Extension – journal article
- Educational Needs of Southern Forest Landowners – journal article
- African-American Land Loss and Sustainable Forestry in the Southeast: An Analysis of the Issues, Opportunities, and Gaps – journal article
- A Southern Pine Management Guide for Tennessee Landowners – handbook
Relevant Links
NCA&T
- Reporting a Suspected Animal Disease Outbreak – dry-erase whiteboard magnet
There are a limited number of free copies of this resource available to order. Please contact Michelle Eley, Community and Economic Development specialist, Cooperative Extension at N.C. A&T at (336) 334-7956 or mleley@ncat.edu.
Relevant Links
NCA&T
- Community Voices – curriculum (hardcopies available to order)
Community Voices develops leaders at the grassroots level. The program is designed to help limited resource and other non-traditional leaders and organizations develop skills to solve problems in their communities. Participants engage in a series of learning experiences and then analyze those experiences to see how they apply to life situations. Community Voices and its companion program, Voices Reaching Vision, were created by The Cooperative Extension Program at North Carolina A&T State University, with a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
- Voices Reaching Visions – curriculum (hard copies available to order)
Voices Reaching Visions helps emergent leaders become more effective in reaching their community vision. This program builds on the skills learned in Community Voices. Participants can assess their organization, determine opportunities for community and economic development and learn the skills they need to mobilize financial and human resources for their organization. Participants take an active role in the learning sessions, engaging with a facilitator.
NCA&T
- Growing Food and Community in N.C. Community Gardens – project poster
- Down to Earth: Enriching Learning Through Gardening – curriculum (available to order )
NCA&T Collaborations
Other
Relevant Links
- NC Farm Link
- NC Growing Together project, Producer resources
- NC Cooperative Extension, Farmers selling locally resources
- Growing Small Farms, Farm Planning & Recordkeeping
- NCSA&CS Marketing Division
- ATTRA Marketing Business and Risk Management
- Veggie Compass
Veggie Compass is an ongoing project at the University of Wisconsin Madison that involves the development of whole farm order to maximize profitability and ensure the continuation of sustainable farms profit management tools and workshops directed to diversified organic fresh market vegetable growers. Our tools are designed to help growers improve on-farm decision making and financial farm planning in order to maximize profitability and ensure the continuation of sustainable farms
- SSAWG, Growing Farm Profits – online course
This online course was developed for farmers and for those who help farmers develop more sustainable farming enterprises.
NCA&T Collaborations
- NC AgrAbility
The mission of NC AgrAbility is to educate, assist and enable those living with disabilities to stay actively engaged in production agriculture, agriculture-related occupations and/or daily life. The service is available to disabled farmers, ranchers, farmworkers and their family members engaged in production agriculture. NC AgrAbility is a project of the NC Agromedicine Institute and is partly funded through North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.
NC AgrAbility – Assistive Technology & Machinery Publications
- Show and Tell – toolkit
- Adaptations and Products for Farming and Gardening with Upper Extremity Amputations – toolkit
- Tractor, Equipment and Other Vehicle Lifts – toolkit
- Electric Jib Crane – handout
- All Terrain Wheelchair – reference guide
- Quick Hitch – reference guide
Relevant Links
NCA&T Collaborations
- Structural Racism and Food Equity, CEFS – webinar
This webinar discusses the past, current and future work at N.C. A&T as a part of the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) effort to address inequities in food systems. The discussion covers our history of youth work and community engagement in eastern North Carolina as well as statewide efforts and national engagement with organizations such as the Inter-Institutional Network for Food and Agricultural Sustainability (INFAS) and the Center for Social Inclusion (CSI) as well as the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) to build shared language, a shared analysis and frame for food equity using race as a lens.
Relevant Links
NCA&T
NCA&T Collaborations
- Season Extension Resource List, NC Cooperative Extension
- NC Organic Grain Production Guide
- CEFS Organic Production Guide
Relevant Links
Season Extension
- Introduction to High Tunnels, eXtension
- High Tunnel Hoop House Construction Guide, Noble Foundation
- Low Cost Hight Tunnel Construction, eXternsion
- How to Build a High Tunnel, University of Kentucky
- Seasonal High Tunnel Initiative System For Crops, USDA NRCS
- High Tunnels for Growers
- Fall Salad Mix Production in Hoophouse/High Tunnel, CFSA
- Learning About High Tunnels, CFSA
- High Tunnel Research for Strawberries, N.C. Cooperative Extension
- Season Extension, Strawberry Research, UF
Organic
NCA&T
Pasture Pork
- Pastured Pork Conference 2015 – presentations
- Pasture Pork – Breed Selection – factsheet
- Pasture Pork – Parasite Control – factsheet
- Pasture Pork – Basics of Feeding – factsheet
Rabbit
There are a limited number of free copies of this resource available to order free of charge. Please contact Niki Whitley, Animal Science specialist at (336) 285-4684 or ncwhitle@ncat.edu
NCA&T Collaborations
Goat
- Goat Vaccination Program – eXtension article
- Goat Hoof and Foot Rot Prevention – eXtension article
- Estrus Synchronization for Times Artificial Insemination in Goats – eXtension article https://www.extension.org/pages/63472/estrus-synchronization-for-timed-artificial-insemination-in-goats#.U-UrG_ldWtY
- Goat Parasite Management Checklist – eXtension document
Relevant Links
NCA&T Collaborations
- A Community and Local Government Guide to Developing Local Food Systems in NC – publication
- Community Based Food System Assessment & Planning: A guide to working with your community – publication
Relevant Links
- NC Cooperative Extension Local Food Portal
- Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS)
- NC 10% Campaign
- eXtension Community, Local and Regional Food Systems community of practice
- Appalachian Foodshed Project
- USDA AMS Local Food Directories
USDA’s Local Food Directories help you locate farmers markets, on-farm markets, CSAs and food hubs. The directories are managed and operated by the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), a USDA agency with the core mission of facilitating the fair and efficient marketing of U.S. agricultural products.
NCA&T
- Youth Engaging in Agriculture – project poster
Relevant Links
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