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Maya van Rossum Announced as 2024 Winter Conference Keynote Speaker
CT NOFA is excited to announce that Maya van Rossum will be the Keynote Speaker for our 2024 Winter Conference. Maya van Rossum is the Founder of Green Amendments For…
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New Connecticut Farmer Alliance’s Climate Smart Ag and Forestry Grant Application Period Open
The New CT Farmer Alliance is excited to announce the first round of their Climate Smart Ag and Forestry grant program! They will be awarding grants to 22 Connecticut farms…
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Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance Seeks Survey Participants
Make your voice heard and help support the Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance to put culture back into agriculture. The Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance (Ujamaa) is a BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color)-led…
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Dr. Kimberly Stoner Interviewed on WNHH FM’s Dateline New Haven
CT NOFA Director of Advocacy, Dr. Kimberly Stoner, was recently interviewed by Paul Bass on WNHH FM’s Dateline New Haven. In the interview, they discussed the future of a potential…
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Registration Now Open for Spring 2024 Online Accreditation Course
The next Organic Land Care Accreditation Course course will be available starting February 1, 2024. The self-paced format allows you to complete the course at your own pace, any time…
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Farmer Health Insurance Survey
Are you a farmer? Do you struggle to afford your health insurance premiums/deductible? Do you have a health insurance policy that doesn’t really meet your needs? Are you prevented from growing…
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Advocacy Update ⏤ Invest our Tax Dollars in Healthy Soils and a Stable Climate
By Dr. Kimberly Stoner, CT NOFA Director of Advocacy At the United Nations, and around the world, this is Climate Week. I marched to the UN in New York City…
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Submissions Open for 2024 SARE Farmer Grant Program
Northeast SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education) offers grants to farmers to explore new concepts in sustainable agriculture conducted through experiments, surveys, prototypes, on-farm demonstrations or other research and education…
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Sign Up Open for Organic Certification Cost Share Program (OCCSP)
As part of USDA’s broader effort to support organic producers and in response to stakeholder feedback, this year the Farm Service Agency increased the cost share amount under the Organic Certification…
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The Natural Farmer Seeks Submissions for Winter ’23 Issue
The Natural Farmer, the newspaper of the Northeast Organic Farming Assocation (NOFA), seeks story and article submissions for the upcoming Winter issue. This season’s theme is “Seeds: Stories & Strategies.”…
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Advocacy Alert – Take Action to Increase Land Access, Security, and Opportunities in the Farm Bill
Land in Connecticut is expensive. Farmland is steadily being lost to development. Access to farmland in Connecticut has been an issue for decades, especially for non-traditional farmers of all kinds:…
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Climate Smart Agriculture Grant Opportunity for Farmers
Our partners at the Connecticut Resource Conservation and Development Area, Inc. (CT RC&D) are pleased to announce the application period is now OPEN for their Climate Smart Agriculture Grant opportunity.…
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