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Connecticut’s Environmental Rights Amendment – Getting up to Speed to Lead

Join us to learn how you can educate your friends, neighbors, family, and elected leaders on why we need the Connecticut Environmental Rights Amendment – aka Connecticut’s Green Amendment. In this 1 hour zoominar you will build confidence in how to speak about the CTERA…

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Support CT NOFA

CT NOFA > Support CT NOFA Each autumn, we reach out to you, our community, to ask for your help and support in our effort to create a more organic Connecticut. Through our programs and initiatives, we pursue our goal of making this state a…

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Diego Osses

Diego Osses is the Programs Director at Green Village Initiative. Diego is an accomplished Agricultural Engineer with an MBA and a Master in Finance. He has a wealth of experience in farm management, international business development, and diplomacy, spanning over 25 years and several countries,…

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Common Ground’s 2023 Farm & Garden Conference

Join Common Ground for a full day of HANDS ON workshops on urban growing, cooking, animal care, family workshops + more. Open TO ALL! This conference would not be possible without our partnerships with All Our Kin and CT NOFA, or support from Farm Credit…

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Farm Bill Forum

Among the many pieces of legislation that have been held up by the chaos in the US House of Representatives is the Farm Bill. The Farm Bill is the most important piece of public policy shaping the U.S. food and farm system. It comes up…

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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 environmental rights amendment in Connecticut. Read more about the interview, here, or watch it, below.…

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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 during the fall. Registration for this course is $400 per person for new participants and…

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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 your farm business for fear that if you make too much money you will no…

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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 last Sunday with an estimated 75,000 people, demanding that President Biden declare a climate emergency…

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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 techniques. Farmer Grant projects address issues that affect farming with long-term sustainability in mind. Competitive…

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