NOFA NJ News & Updates
NOFA NJ Weekly Email: June 13, 2022
Upcoming NOFA NJ Events: TONIGHT - 6/13, Underground Supper Club Potluck (7PM): Join NOFANJ for a community potluck at Foodshed Alliance's SAgE Farm. We'll be cooking over the fire, enjoying live music and connecting through food. Add a dish to the spreadsheet, bring...
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 Weekly Email: June 6, 2022
Read NOFA NJ's Monthly Report (May) for an update on our May activity Upcoming NOFA NJ Events: 6/11, Poultry Processing Class (10AM-12:30PM): Join NOFA NJ & Hard Cider Homestead in a comprehensive class on poultry processing. Register Here 6/13, Underground Supper...
NOFA NJ Monthly Report (May)
NOFA NJ is working hard to support organic farming and food systems throughout New Jersey. Be sure to read our Monthly Report to keep up-to-date on our work, our partners, and our impact. June, finally. After a long, cold and rainy spring, summer weather is here and...
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....
NOFA NJ Weekly Email: May 31, 2022
6/11, Poultry Processing Class (10AM - 12:30PM): Join NOFA NJ and Matt from Hard Cider Homestead in a comprehensive class on poultry processing. Each participant has the option of experiencing the steps necessary to take a living mature meat chicken, into a processing...
NOFA NJ Weekly Email: May 23, 2022
5/24, NOFA NJ Taco Tuesday (7-10 PM) (Yard Tacos in High Bridge): Kick off the season with NOFA NJ for a taco Tuesday to remember! FREE to NOFA MEMBERS, Chefs and Farmers. (Not a member? You can become a member online or at the door) This is a BYOB event (packaged...
NOFA NJ Weekly Email: May 16, 2022
NOFA NJ News & Events 5/24, NOFA NJ Taco Tuesday (7-10 PM) (Yard Tacos in High Bridge): Kick off the season with NOFA NJ for a taco Tuesday to remember! FREE to NOFAMEMBERS, Chefs and Farmers. (Not a member? You can become a member online or at the door) This is a...
NOFA NJ Weekly Email: May 9, 2022
NOFA NJ News & Events 5/09: Member Perk! This week, NOFA NJ Members can expect to find a fun gift in their inbox: a one-month free subscription to The Peasant Wife, NJ's independent news source for all things culinary. Andy Clurfield has been reporting on food and...
NOFA NJ Weekly Email: May 2, 2022
NOFA NJ News & Events 5/11, NOFA NJ Farm Tour: Mike's Blueberries (5-7PM): Join NOFA NJand Mike Price for a tour of Mike’s Blueberries, a Certified Organic blueberry farm in Pemberton, NJ. Mike grows and tends to ten acres of organic blueberries and sells direct...
April Monthly Report
NOFA NJ is working hard to support organic farming and food systems throughout New Jersey. Be sure to read our Monthly Report to keep up-to-date on our work, our partners, and our impact. Happy May. The days are growing longer and, though the threat of frost still...
NOFA NJ Weekly Email: April 25, 2022
NOFA NJ News & Events 4/27: NOFA NJ Monthly Organic Open House (Virtual) (8:30AM) Join NOFA NJ Staff and Board as we introduce our 2022 JourneyPerson Cohort. Our JourneyPerson Program links beginning farmers with seasoned farmer mentors to help ensure their...
NOFA NJ Weekly Email: April 18, 2022
It's April... Did you sign up for a CSA yet? 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 a 2022 CSA Share, ensuring you have access to...
NOFA NJ Weekly Email: April 11, 2022
NOFA NJ News & Events Start Reading!: Grab a copy of Essential Rainwater Harvesting by Michelle & Rob Avis, NOFA NJ's next featured text in our Quarterly Book Club. Essential Rainwater Harvesting is a comprehensive manual for designing, building, and...
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...