Supporting Local Farmers
At NC Rooted Community Agriculture, we believe strong farms build strong communities. This page is designed to connect farmers and food producers with educational opportunities, funding resources, and practical information that can help their farms grow. We'll regularly share workshops, field days, webinars, grant opportunities, and other resources from trusted agricultural organizations serving North Carolina.
Upcoming Workshops & Events
Check back often as new opportunities are added.
Ensuring Quality from Pasture to Plate: A Meat Quality & Marketing Training
August 25 @ 8:00 am - August 26 @ 5:00 pm
Join NC Choices’ for a producer-oriented program, Ensuring Quality from Pasture to Plate: A Meat Quality & Marketing Training, taking you from pasture to package – covering live animal evaluation, nutrition, carcass assessment, and bulk sales strategy. We’ll examine every stage of the process to understand how farm management and nutrition decisions directly impact product quality. Leave with the practical knowledge to understand your product at every step, and the confidence to market it successfully to bulk buyers and build a thriving local meat business.
This intensive features a full day of classroom instruction led by Dr. Jennifer Martin (Colorado State University) and some of the field’s top experts in nutrition, meat quality, and marketing. We’ll examine every stage of the process to understand how farm management and nutrition decisions directly impact product quality. Leave with the practical knowledge to understand your product at every step, and the confidence to market it successfully to bulk buyers and build a thriving local meat business.
Attendees also have the option to add a pre-tour on Tuesday, August 25. This all-day tour will include on-farm live animal evaluation followed by meat cutting demos at a USDA-inspected processor to evaluate meat quality from pasture to package. Pre-workshop tour space is very limited and first come, first served.
Dates: Tuesday, August 25 (optional pre-workshop tour), 8:00am-5:00pm
Wednesday, August 26, 2026 (workshop), 8:00am-5:00pm
Location:
N.C. Cooperative Extension, Randolph County Center,
1880 US Hwy 64E, Asheboro, NC
Tickets: Space is limited.
August 25 @ 8:00 am - August 26 @ 5:00 pm
Join NC Choices’ for a producer-oriented program, Ensuring Quality from Pasture to Plate: A Meat Quality & Marketing Training, taking you from pasture to package – covering live animal evaluation, nutrition, carcass assessment, and bulk sales strategy. We’ll examine every stage of the process to understand how farm management and nutrition decisions directly impact product quality. Leave with the practical knowledge to understand your product at every step, and the confidence to market it successfully to bulk buyers and build a thriving local meat business.
This intensive features a full day of classroom instruction led by Dr. Jennifer Martin (Colorado State University) and some of the field’s top experts in nutrition, meat quality, and marketing. We’ll examine every stage of the process to understand how farm management and nutrition decisions directly impact product quality. Leave with the practical knowledge to understand your product at every step, and the confidence to market it successfully to bulk buyers and build a thriving local meat business.
Attendees also have the option to add a pre-tour on Tuesday, August 25. This all-day tour will include on-farm live animal evaluation followed by meat cutting demos at a USDA-inspected processor to evaluate meat quality from pasture to package. Pre-workshop tour space is very limited and first come, first served.
Dates: Tuesday, August 25 (optional pre-workshop tour), 8:00am-5:00pm
Wednesday, August 26, 2026 (workshop), 8:00am-5:00pm
Location:
N.C. Cooperative Extension, Randolph County Center,
1880 US Hwy 64E, Asheboro, NC
Tickets: Space is limited.
Funding & Grant Opportunities
We'll share grant programs, cost-share opportunities, and funding resources that may benefit local farmers and food producers.
(Current opportunities will be posted here.)
(Current opportunities will be posted here.)
Have A resource to share?
Are you an agricultural organization or community partner with a workshop, training, or funding opportunity that would benefit local farmers? We welcome submissions and are always happy to help share opportunities that support our local farming community. Contact us with the details, and we'll do our best to include them on this page.
