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The NOFA summer conference returns this July with workshops, events, children’s programming, and more. Join us online and in-person in Worcester, MA this summer! This year’s conference begins online, Monday, July 24 – Thursday, July 27 with evening speakers and workshops, and continues in-person and…
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The NOFA Summer Conference is the annual summer gathering of the Northeast Organic Farming Association NOFA is a non-profit organization of over 5,000 small-scale farmers, gardeners, consumers and food system reformers. We promote healthy food, organic regenerative farming practices, and climate disruption solutions through soil…
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By Dr. Kimberly Stoner Farmers and farmworkers are on the frontlines of dealing with climate change worldwide. As we move into a strange new climate never seen before in human history, with deeper droughts, heavier downpours, more powerful storms, brutal heat waves, and unexpected polar…
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As part of an upcoming update to CT NOFA’s Organic Land Care Program, we’re asking our accredited land care professionals to fill out this survey. Let us know what parts of the program have been helpful to you…and which haven’t! With the help of your…
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Neonicotinoid Bill Makes It Through Appropriations to the Floor of the State Senate From Dr. Kimberly Stoner, CT NOFA Director of Advocacy At one of the public hearings in the Environment Committee of the Connecticut General Assembly, Sen. Rick Lopes, co-chair of the committee, said,…
Read MoreCT NOFA > Advocacy and Policy Urgent Advocacy Action Items Neonicotinoid Bill Makes It Through Appropriations to the Floor of the State Senate Neonicotinoid insecticides are very highly toxic to insects, persistent in soil (lasting over a year in some circumstances), able to travel in…
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As part of the next phase of TOPP (Transition to Organic Partnership Program), CT NOFA is actively seeking potential mentors and mentees for the program. What is TOPP? TOPP is a coalition of organizations from throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region which are partnering to…
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On April 19, 2023, CT NOFA was proud to co-host a discussion about the Green Amendment movement in Connecticut with author Maya K. van Rossum. van Rossum is the author of The Green Amendment, The People’s Fight For a Clean, Safe & Healthy Environment and…
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On April 20th at noon, Organic Certification Assistance Coordinator for NOFA/Mass, Laura Davis, will be interviewed with Sunrise Farm (a newly inspected organic farm) on WPKN’s The Organic Farm Stand show. Listen in for the story behind Sunrise Farm’s organic certification process and to hear…
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CT NOFA is happy to present our 2023 Winter Conference Keynote Address by Leah Penniman, recorded on March 11, 2023. Leah Penniman is a Black Kreyol farmer, author, mother, and food justice activist who has been tending the soil and organizing for an anti-racist…
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