Education Committee
Committee Purpose
The Education Committee carries a broad responsibility, from brainstorming programming ideas, to collecting suggestions for future speakers and activating volunteers to assist with hosting workshops and gatherings. With over thirty years of actively fostering educational opportunities, NOFA NJ always needs interested committee members to assess and consider the effectiveness of our Programming.
We have developed Education “Tracks” e.g. Beginning Farmer, Advanced Farming and Gardener Tracks, to help folks decide if the workshop is appropriate to their interests. The Committee also assesses if our programming is reaching the audience it is intended for, and do we have enough programming to reach all the Audiences that we can. Some of the Educational Focus NOFA NJ has sustained over the years are below:
- On-Farm Workshops / Twilight Meetings
- Special Classes such as Organic Land Care, Exploring the Small Farm Dream, Road to Certification, Tractor Maintenance and Organic Gardening Course.
- Journey Person Program
- Book Club
- Public Movies on Organic Ag topics
- Fielding technical questions from the public.
More recently, NOFA NJ has added a Monthly Organic Open House, the last Wednesday of each month, to provide a space for our community to Gather around a specific topic, guest or just to have a reason to stay connected or bring new members into the conversations.
Resources & Links
Education Events and Links for 2021
As most of you know from my many emails, last night marked the last education event of 2021. We hope that you tuned into some classes, and we thank those of you who signed up for events and supported the cost of the speakers. We also thank all of the grant funders,...
Rutgers Master Gardener IPM Team Report
New Problems Seen: Caterpillar on Kale Three Lined Potato Beetle Rhubarb Leaf Spot Slugs Click link above for full report
Updated 2021 NOFA-NJ Events Calendar
Full Year Calendar
“There are wonderful sustainable initiatives, they are just not organic”
Article From March 31 2021 hortidaily
Growing in the Garden State
For those who have not heard about our special 2021 project, "Growing in the Garden State," we share this post so you can learn about it and get involved. We have assembled generous organic farms, skilled vegetable gardeners to share their gardening know-how and...
NOFA-NJ Announces the Education Calendar for the Next Year
Celebrating 50 years of Organic Farming
https://www.njconservation.org/celebrate-50-years-of-organic-farming/
NOFA-NJ Annual Meeting 03162021
NOFA-NJ is pleased to announce that we had our annual meeting on Tuesday March 16, 2021. If you missed it, you can view it below. For those of you who participated, and are interested in the slides and/or Abby's list of how you can get involved....
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...
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. ...