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This event is part of CT NOFA’s Skill Share program, produced in partnership with UConn Extension’s Solid Ground program. Go through a season of growing hemp with this skill share as you meet up multiple times during the growing season to observe and discuss the…
Read MoreThis event is part of CT NOFA’s Skill Share program, produced in partnership with UConn Extension’s Solid Ground program. For folks who are still looking for land, whether to lease or purchase. Learn how to evaluate potential properties for agricultural use. Explore three different properties…
Read MoreThis event is part of CT NOFA’s Skill Share program, produced in partnership with UConn Extension’s Solid Ground program. Join Shuresh Ghimire, UConn Extension IPM educator at Lathrop Farmstead as we explore the different pests and diseases vegetable farmers can face in a season and…
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CT NOFA was honored to host Maya van Rossum, founder of the Green Amendments for the Generations movement, at our 2024 Winter Conference. Her keynote address is now available for anyone who may have missed it. Green Amendments For the Generations is a grassroots non-profit…
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Dr. Kimberly Stoner, Director of Advocacy and Policy for CT NOFA, recently had an opinion piece on the Connecticut Environmental Rights Amendment published by the CT Mirror. Check it out on their website.
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CT NOFA board member, Kaitlyn Kimball, was recently featured on WPKN’s Digging in the Dirt podcast. In addition to being a CT NOFA board member, Kimball is the Director of Agriculture for CitySeed in New Haven and co-owner of Sunset Farm in Naugatuck, a certified…
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Beginning in late summer, CT NOFA will host three field days centered on soil health practices. Learn more about how tree and shrub establishment, cover cropping, and no-till farming practices and improve the long term health and wellbeing of your soil! Tree and Shrub Establishment…
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CT NOFA board member, Hector “Freedom” Gerardo, was recently featured on New Hampshire Public Radio’s podcast, Outside/In. Gerardo is, among other things, a Connecticut-based industrial hemp farmer, whose experience provides insight into the past, present, and future of industrial hemp as a U.S. agricultural product…
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Join CT NOFA for an overview of how to adopt/improve practices that involve planting a cover crop in between crops for harvesting. Yoko Takemura and Alex Carpenter, farmers and founders of Assawaga Farm, will show several methods of working with cover crops on a small…
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Join CT NOFA for a field day that will provide participants with resources and support in implementing no-till practices, or in transitioning to no-till and reduced tillage farming. This field day will include examples of no-till equipment, how they work, and how/when to use them.…
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