Category: Small Farms Innovation
Science from the ground up
It’s not who you know, but what you know, the popular catchphrase goes. But for Biswanath Dari, Ph.D., Cooperative Extension natural resource specialist, soil scientist and researcher in the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, it’s both who and what he knows.
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N.C. A&T Breaks Ground on Urban and Community Food Complex
EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (Nov. 9, 2023) – University leaders, elected officials, faculty, staff and project team members picked up shovels and officially broke ground on the Urban and Community Food Complex, the latest expansion of the 492-acre University Farm, on Nov. 9.
Read MoreHigh tunnels, high profits: Extension specialist unlocks the potential of plants, plastic and sunshine
It’s a giant structure made of metal frames and one – or sometimes two – covers of plastic. It’s a cost-saving and profit-making aid for farmers who want to increase production and grow in both hot and cold climates. And yet growers and researchers are still unlocking the many possibilities of the high tunnel.
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“EMERGING CROPS” BAMBOO, GINGER ON DISPLAY DURING SMALL FARMS FIELD DAY
More than 150 farmers, growers and other agriculture professionals came to the University Farm for the first time in two years to learn techniques, see demonstrations and hear updates from the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences and N.C. A&T Cooperative Extension during Small Farms Field Day, held June 23.
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Extension and Research Farm Pavilion opens doors, ushers in new season of growth for farm
“A dream 20 years in the making” was realized at N.C. A&T’s 492-acre farm on Sept. 21 as local, state and national dignitaries lined up to cut the ribbon and open its Extension and Research Farm Pavilion.
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Hemp research: Helping farmers navigate a new field
For some farmers, hemp sounds like the cash crop of their dreams. Since Congress made hemp farming legal in 2018, it has been the hot new topic in agriculture, bringing hope to North Carolina farmers still recovering financially from the decline of the tobacco industry. The fast-growing plant can yield seeds, flowers, fibers and oil, all of which can theoretically fetch high prices on the hemp market — enticing thousands to try growing it.
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