The Natural Farmer Seeks Submissions for Spring 2023 Issue (theme: Water & Agriculture)
January 13, 2023
The Natural Farmer (TNF), the newspaper of the Northeast Organic Farming Association, is now accepting articles for our upcoming issues! Share your story with other farmers, gardeners, and homesteaders across the Northeast and beyond.
Here are the kind of submissions we’re looking for:
- Interviews
- Personal essays
- Technical pieces
- Photographs
- Seasonal recipes
- Book reviews
- Opinion pieces on trending topics in agriculture
TNF is published quarterly. Our upcoming issues and themes are:
- Spring 2023: Water & Agriculture (submissions due February 1)
- Summer 2023: Farm workers (submissions due May 1)
- Fall 2023: Farmers of Color (submissions due Aug 1)
- Winter 2023: Scaling UP (submissions due Nov 1)
Submit your article here. If your writing is published in TNF, you will receive a free year subscription to the paper. Questions? Email TNF Editor Elizabeth Gabriel: tnf@nofa.org.
About TNF: The Natural Farmer covers news of the organic movement nationally and internationally and features stories about farmers, homesteaders and gardeners, especially those from the 7 NOFA member states, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, and Vermont. TNF is provided to direct subscribers and as a perk to NOFA members and is mailed quarterly to over 6000 homes.
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Advocacy News: May 2026
The Good News: CT Senator Chris Murphy has introduced a bill (bipartisan and bicameral) to increase funding for Agricultural Management Assistance to $30 million and to expand the eligible uses for these funds to include “soil health improvements, composting, implementing organic farming, and food safety certification in addition to existing authorized uses such as water management structure and soil erosion control.” Let’s thank Senator Murphy for introducing this bill!
The Bad News: The Farm Bill passed the House of Representatives on April 30, despite 320 food, farm, and conservation organizations, including CT NOFA, voicing our opposition to a bill that does not fix SNAP, does not support new and beginning farmers, and does not adequately support conservation programs or organic agriculture. Now it goes to the Senate and we need to urge both of Connecticut’s Senators to reject this Farm Bill.
Our Vision for a Future of Resilient, Plentiful, Healthy and Locally-Grounded Farming and Food
In concluding its annual retreat, the Northeast Organic Farming Association Interstate Council (NOFA IC) reaffirms the values that have grounded our work for 55 years.
Our vision is that every person is able to live their life with healthy food, clean water and air, community, livelihood, dignity, and purpose within the means of our life-giving planet. We seek that vision on every level, from our households and farms to our communities, states, bioregions, nation, and world. For that vision to be fulfilled, every person, no matter their origin or circumstances, must have all their basic human needs met without degrading the air, water, soil, ecosystems, and climate which we have been given and on which we depend for our lives.