Policy for an Organic Connecticut

CT NOFA’s policy vision includes the following:

• A clean and healthy environment for everyone, regardless of where they live, with special emphasis on protecting vulnerable people and communities.
• Organic farming, gardening, and land care to protect human and environmental health, and as essential solutions to our climate and biodiversity crises.
• Funding for rapid agricultural disaster assistance in the face of the changing climate.
• Land access and opportunity for new and beginning farmers, centering racial justice.
• Fresh, healthy, and locally grown food available to everyone, regardless of income, and across the life cycle, from childhood to old age.
• Support for Connecticut’s unique agriculture, with smaller and more diversified farms compared to other regions of the country.

I want to hear from you – what policies do we need to change to get to where we want to go? How can we organize to change policy and realize our vision? What are the systems that keep us from moving forward, and how can we change them?

In addition to providing an opportunity for CT NOFA members to network and help inform our future advocacy efforts, attendees will hear about:

• Specific policy proposals that apply to our vision and that have been proposed for the 2026 legislative session in Connecticut.
• The current state of the Federal Farm Bill, including what has been changed since the Farm Bill coalition was disassembled.