Scientists And Chefs Team Up To Grow North Carolina Agriculture

North Carolina State University agricultural researchers and Johnson & Wales University culinary professionals and students are working together in a project called “The N. C. Strawberry Project.” It is an effort created to strengthen the agricultural sector of the North Carolina economy. It connects plant breeders with the culinary world and introduces future chefs to agricultural research and to North Carolina growers. The goal of the program is to glean information from the culinary industry, produce buyers, and consumers that the North Carolina State strawberry breeding program can use to breed a better North Carolina strawberry.

The project is supported by a $200,000 Golden LEAF Foundation grant and is the first to connect the culinary world with plant breeders, researchers, and producers in this manner.

For more information, go to www.ncmarketready.org.