DURHAM, N.C. (WNCN) — A farm campus dedicated to training existing and aspiring farmers is coming to Durham County.
It’s part of an effort to strengthen local agriculture and the area’s food system. Project leaders said the county’s Farm Campus has been in the works for more than a decade.
“Our farmer population is aging and then at the same time, we are losing a lot of farmland in our whole country, but especially in North Carolina,” Durham County Cooperative Extension Food Security Coordinator Raina Goldstein Bunnag said. “We are No. 2 in the country for loss of farmland, right behind Texas.”…