Beginning Farmer Programs

In this webinar, Dr. Joseph Amsili, Director of the Cornell Soil Health Program, joins us to discuss soil health and soil testing interpretation, discussing what information you’ll find in laboratory soil testing results and what it means.

Compost tea, an excellent organic fertilizer and soil biology builder, is easy to make and can provide significant benefits to both home gardens and commercial agricultural operations. In this video, CT NOFA’s Soil Health Program Manager, Monique Bosch, is joined by Justin Hawrysh, Livestock Manager at The Hickories in Ridgefield, CT, to discuss compost tea: the science behind it, how it benefits plants and soil, and both small and large scale production models.

Thanks to support through the USDA’s Transition to Organic Partnership Program, CT NOFA has made available this Organic Poultry record keeping checklist. This checklist is intended to provide a framework for management of records that are required when a farm or food production operation is preparing to certify organic, or a current organic farm or production facility is preparing for recertification.

Farmers who work with livestock - poultry, dairy animals, meat animals, or fiber animals - can use this 2027 calendar as a record keeping tool to track feed and supplements, healthcare administrations, field applications, and other data that is critical to USDA organic certification processes.

Thanks to support through the USDA’s Transition to Organic Partnership Program, CT NOFA has made available this Organic Meats & Fibers record keeping checklist. This checklist is intended to provide a framework for management of records that are required when a farm or food production operation is preparing to certify organic, or a current organic farm or production facility is preparing for recertification.

Thanks to support through the USDA’s Transition to Organic Partnership Program, CT NOFA has made available this Organic Dairy record keeping checklist. This checklist is intended to provide a framework for management of records that are required when a farm or food production operation is preparing to certify organic, or a current organic farm or production facility is preparing for recertification.