Overview
The Farm, Food, and Family Education Center creates a dynamic, innovative, and collaborative place for learning and skill-building. This campus allows people and organizations to come together, build systems that strengthen economies, enhance resiliency, and build the communities around them.
Randolph County envisions a place for agritourism, business, and community support with their new agricultural education campus Farm, Food, and Family Education Center. The campus includes a Training and Event Center, a Food and Family Resource Center, and an incubator farm.
The Training and Event Center is a 45,000-SF that includes a 540-person capacity exhibit hall and a 320-person capacity open-air, roofed arena for livestock auctions and other events.
The Food and Family Resource Center is a 28,000-SF facility that houses NC cooperative extension offices, county soil and water offices, and meeting and classroom space. It includes community resources such as an incubator commercial kitchen for small food businesses to rent certified kitchen space for food preparation, as well as a food hub virtually connecting local farmers and consumers with pre-ordering and pick-up services.
The Farm, Food, and Family Education Center as a whole creates a dynamic, innovative, and collaborative place for learning and skill-building. This campus allows people and organizations to come together, build systems that strengthen economies, enhance resiliency, and build the communities around them.
Size
104 acres
Year
In Design
Internal Team
- Emily Barry
- Laura Beesmer
- Jessica Bossiere
- Morgan Bryant
- Jeramie Clifford
- Daniel Jencks
- Maya Miller
- Siler Ransmeier
Consultants
Lynch Mykins
Palacio Collaborative
Salas O’Brien
The Wooten Company