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John & Peter’s & Lambertville/New Hope Community Raise $3k for NOFA NJ
John & Peter's & Lambertville/New Hope Community Raise $3k for NOFA NJ Earlier in August, John and Peter's hosted the Lambertville and New Hope community for a benefit to honor our late friend Dan Rovensky. Rovensky was a NJ Organic Farmer, a NOFA NJ Member,...
Remembering Dan Rovensky
Farmer Dan... where to even begin? Dan Rovensky leveled up from this world on Monday last week, leaving behind a vast and diverse community that spreads across the state, country, and probably beyond, leaving behind plenty of memories, stories, and laughs, leaving...
NOFA NJ Hosts Farm Bill Field Day
The Farm Bill is America's most impactful and important piece of legislation, affecting farming, food systems, food access, conservation, and much more. Being so large and complex, many only view the farm bill in a basic sense: Congress deliberates and agrees on...
NOFA NJ Mid-Season Update
Check out what NOFA NJ has been up to in the first half of 2022!: 2022 Mid-Season Update
NSAC/Delaware River Watershed Grant Project
In 2021 and 2022, NOFA NJ has been participating in a grant project with NSAC (National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition) funded by the William Penn Foundation. The goal of the grant is to: design an assessment process for evaluating: usage rates of core NRCS...
NJFB On-Farm Composting Workshop
On Tuesday, June 28, NOFA NJ attended an incredible workshop put on by New Jersey Farm Bureau and hosted by Chesterfield Organic Orchards as part of a grant from Northeast SARE. The workshop covered the basics of safely and efficiently composting manure, wood chips,...
NOFA NJ Dairy & Creamery Listing
June is Dairy Month! No matter your dietary preference, it's difficult to diminish the role that dairy products have played in American food culture. From the first doorstep delivery to recent Got Milk? campaigns, the U.S. has steadily consumed large amounts of dairy....
2022 NJ CSA Listing
With so many CSA farms in New Jersey, locavores can rejoice in the wide variety of options for year-round, farm-fresh goodness! There is still plenty of time to sign up for your 2022 CSA Share, ensuring you have access to local and organic foods to support your...
Vermicomposting
As part of Delaware Township Elementary School's Earth Day Fair, NOFA NJ attended and shared simple Vermicomposting techniques to turn food waste into fertilizer for the farm and garden. Below are some additional links and resources to continue learning and dive...
NOFA NJ Celebrates Passage of Neonics Bill!
The New Jersey Assembly passed legislation A2070 (Calabrese)/S1016 (Smith) on Monday January 10,2022, to classify bee-killing neonicotinoids, also known as neonics, as restricted use pesticides. The law prohibits most outdoor non-agricultural uses of harmful...
The Progressive: A Way of Life in Danger Organic farmers face unprecedented challenges. BY MARC EISEN DECEMBER 13, 2021 9:42 AM
Hi all, From Jim Riddle: In case you haven’t seen it, The Progressive has released a hard hitting article about the current state of organic - https://progressive.org/magazine/a-way-of-life-in-danger-eisen/ Feel free to share, Jim
Overall Warming with Reduced Seasonality: Temperature Change in New England, USA, 1900–2020
https://www.mdpi.com/2225-1154/9/12/176/htm?fbclid=IwAR3cZo9bXln2HjWBPqCQSHWfQeLlDgAUk3rr_qlRZ61ucBi95c5kg_jefd8 Abstract The ecology, economy, and cultural heritage of New England is grounded in its seasonal climate, and this seasonality is now changing as the world...
From IFOAM INTERNATIONAL: Our first virtual General Assembly concluded with milestone decisions, and the GA minutes are available for your reference.
Our first virtual General Assembly concluded with milestone decisions, and the GA minutes are available for your reference. We are happy to share the draft minutes of the General Assembly (GA) 202, and the first virtual one of its kind, in your Member Area. Before...
Honey Brook Organic Farm shifting gears
We got this sad news from Jim Kinsel last week: Sherry and I are saddened to announce that this is the last season for Honey Brook Organic Farm’s CSA program that I started along with a farm partner in 1991. We have reluctantly decided to discontinue the CSA after a...
USDA announces a new focus on Indigenous food and agriculture
Moorhead, Minn. November 16, 2021 12:45 p.m. The USDA Office of Tribal Relations announced this week that it will partner with several Native-led organizations on projects to raise awareness of Indigenous perspectives about food and agriculture. "The United States...