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NOFA-NJ Announces the Education Calendar for the Next Year
NOFA-NJ Community, we are excited to announce that we are able to publish coming events for the next 12 Months. We have worked to have classes for everyone, so we hope you will enjoy what we have planned. Monthly Organic Open House (Last Wednesday of the month from...
Steep rise in UK’s consumption of organic food
Soil Association announces largest year-on-year increase in sales of natural products in 15 years. Organic food consumption has soared in the past year across the UK, as people have eaten in more and sought higher quality food, driving the biggest year-on-year...
Organic Produce Network (OPN) just published State of Organic Produce 2020
The Organic Produce Network (OPN) has released its inaugural State of Organic Produce 2020, a comprehensive overview of how the industry performed last year, including data and analysis of retail sales of organic fresh produce. The newly published report includes...
U.S. Department of Agriculture Announces Key Staff Appointments
The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced the names of individuals who will hold senior staff positions in Washington, D.C. Anne Knapke was named Deputy Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations. Most recently, Knapke was a Senior Program Officer...
National CSA Week is almost here.
NOFA-NJ is excited to announce CSA Week, which is set to take place from February 21st through February 28th, 2021. During this special week, we are encouraging farmers and farmer support organizations across the country to come together in promoting CSA, and we want...
2021 Organic Growers Advisory Meeting February 3 2021
Learned about this The Cucurbit Downy Mildew Forecast at the Organic Growers advisory today. Thanks Meredith, Andy Wyenandt, and Kris Holmstrom. Meredith and Andy also reminded us to tune in for the NJ Agriculture Convention from Feb 22-25, 2021. General vegetable...
Booker Appointed to Senate Agriculture Committee
Washington, DC -- US Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) has been appointed to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, one of the oldest Senate committees whose jurisdiction focuses on agriculture, nutrition, food, and hunger. In addition to Booker, Sen....
Winter Conference 2021
NOFA-NJ Completed our first Virtual Winter Conference this past week, on Saturday and Sunday, January 30th and 31st. We had over 350 people register, and average attendance of 170 per session. There were so many amazing speakers and highlights of the two days. ...
Organic produce sales up 14% in 2020, topping $8.5 billion
Organic fresh produce sales in 2020 were $8,542,355,756, an increase of over $1 billion from 2019 https://www.morningagclips.com/organic-produce-sales-up-14-in-2020-topping-8-5-billion/
Education Committee is meeting monthly to develop our plan
We are exploring how NOFA-NJ can deliver high quality programming that delivers against member interest areas and delivers against the core competencies of organic farming and gardening. NOFA-NJ Education and the Strategic Plan and NOFANJ Education Core Competencies....