Organic Transitions: Tyler Hoadley & Haley Newell | Hoadley Hills Farm

As a core partner in the ongoing Transition to Organic Partnership Program (TOPP), CT NOFA has provided support to Connecticut farms that are pursuing organic certification. One of the farms that has achieved organic certification with support from the program is Hoadley Hills Farm, the first organically certified livestock farm in Connecticut.

We, ourselves, were looking for locally grown, sustainably, regeneratively raised meat with organic feed and we were having such a hard time finding it that we just ended up deciding to do it for ourselves. We started doing it just for family and friends, and it started growing from there and you could see the demand from the community looking for the same kinds of meat we were looking for. It feels really good to have our careers be focused on producing a product that serves our community in this way.

In this video, farm owners Tyler Hoadley and Haley Newell discuss how they found out about TOPP, what motivated them to get certified, and how they feel about producing an organic product for customers. The narration and interview is led by Sherlene Rodriguez, Program Director of TOPP at CT NOFA.

This video was produced by UConn Extension in partnership with CT NOFA and filmed by Defining Studios.