Farm Food and Family Education Center

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