Resources serving agricultural businesses
Aug 15, 2023 06:24PM ● By Randee Brown
Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project
Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project is a 501(c)(3) organization with a mission to support local farmers, link them to resources, and build healthier communities through connections to local food. ASAP offers a variety of educational and supportive programming for farmers, educators, and the community including a Farm to School program, farmer training programs, workshops, and a Farm Fresh for Health initiative.
NC Choices is a unique program of NC State’s Center for Environmental Farming Systems and the NC Cooperative Extension that works with independent pasture-raised meat producers and independent processors around the state. NC Choices works with several partners including regulatory experts and economic development planners to help “grease the supply chain” between meat producers and their processors to make sure farms and their business supply chains are profitable.
WNC Ag Options is a program which delivers grants to a wide variety of agricultural businesses in 20 WNC counties. The goal of WNC Ag Options is to help diversify farms, create more efficiency, and keep farms in farmland where agriculture is part of the cultural heritage and a big part of life for many residents.
Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project is a 501(c)(3) organization with a mission to support local farmers, link them to resources, and build healthier communities through connections to local food. ASAP offers a variety of educational and supportive programming for farmers, educators, and the community including a Farm to School program, farmer training programs, workshops, and a Farm Fresh for Health initiative.
Learn more at ASAPConnections.org.
NC ChoicesNC Choices is a unique program of NC State’s Center for Environmental Farming Systems and the NC Cooperative Extension that works with independent pasture-raised meat producers and independent processors around the state. NC Choices works with several partners including regulatory experts and economic development planners to help “grease the supply chain” between meat producers and their processors to make sure farms and their business supply chains are profitable.
Learn more at CEFS.NCSU.edu/Food-System-Initiatives/NC-Choices.
WNC Ag OptionsWNC Ag Options is a program which delivers grants to a wide variety of agricultural businesses in 20 WNC counties. The goal of WNC Ag Options is to help diversify farms, create more efficiency, and keep farms in farmland where agriculture is part of the cultural heritage and a big part of life for many residents.
Learn more at WNCAgOptions.org.