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2009 Annual Meeting produce display
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CT NOFA eNewsletter
Cultivating an Organic Connecticut
Since 1982
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Notes from the office
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Thank you to everyone who has recently responded to our Annual Appeal letter. We are most grateful for your donations and membership renewals.
 For the upcoming holiday season, please consider a gift membership to CT NOFA. As an additional incentive, we'll also include the "Eating Well" cookbook and a gift card to the recipient.
We also have CT NOFA hats at $15 each, along with t-shirts (both the recent Taste! style and the "classics") - call the office at 203-888-5146 and we'd be glad to take your orders.
And from all of us here at the CT NOFA office, we wish you all the happiest, tastiest (organic and local, of course!) and warmest of holiday seasons.
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A Message from the Executive Director |
Dear Friends,
Thanks for subscribing to this newsletter and for your
interest in CT NOFA.
CT NOFA is a growing community of farmers, gardeners, land
care professionals, and consumers that encourages a healthy relationship to the
natural world.
CT NOFA:
· Promotes methods of farming, gardening, and land
care that respect biodiversity, soil, water, air, and the needs of future
generations through education, support, and advocacy.
· Encourages the growth of a sustainable, regional
food system that is ecologically sound, economically viable and socially just.
· Educates consumers about their power to effect
positive changes through their food and land care choices.
· Increases the local and organic food supply and
maintains productive agricultural land by creating opportunities for new and
veteran farmers.
That's been our mission since 1982 and it looks like an
especially relevant one today.
You understand the critical role that a vigorous, local and
organic, community-based food system has in solving such diverse problems as
chronic disease, climate change, loss of biodiversity and unemployment.
Our food choices matter a lot.
And also you understand the importance of CT NOFA's
educational and advocacy role in growing and nurturing Connecticut's
increasingly vibrant network of organic, sustainable and ecological family
farms, community farms, farmers markets, and communities which are working
together to bring this about.
We have a wonderful schedule of conferences, on-farm
workshops and courses planned for 2010. This winter we'll sponsor the 5-Day
Course in Organic Land Care, the Getting Started in Organic Farming
conference featuring Bob Muth, and starting the garden education program. We'll begin the Women Farmers Whole Farm
Training Course and feature Michael Shuman, author of Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age, at
our big conference on March 6.
I hope to see you at one or more of these events.
We appreciate your support for our work and especially
welcome your tax-deductible contribution to CT NOFA at this time of year.
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Best wishes for a wonderful holiday season and a bountiful
2010.
Bill Duesing
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Upcoming CT NOFA & NOFA Events |
NOFA Organic Land Care Update Course - Tuesday, December 8, 2009 in Sturbridge, MA. 10th Annual NOFA Course in Organic Land Care January 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 2010 (Snow Date: Jan. 21), Newburyport, MA January 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 2010 (Snow Date: Jan. 29),New Haven, CT Feb. 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 2010 (Snow Date: Feb. 17), Elmsford, NY Feb. 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 2010 (Snow Date: Feb. 27) Providence, RI NOFA/MASS 23RD ANNUAL WINTER CONFERENCE
"Food From Farms For Families"
January 16, 2010, Worcester Technical High School, Worcester, MA CT NOFA Getting Started in Organic Farming
Saturday, January 30, 2010 - New Haven, CT. Details soon on the website. CT NOFA Cultivating an Organic Connecticut Conference - March 6, 2009. Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT. Details soon on the website.
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Other Upcoming Events
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Local and regional events are now maintained on our website. If you have an event you'd like to add, send it along to the office. |
| Community Board |
Vendors wanted - The Hollander Winter Market is looking for vendors for its first season. The marke will be held in the bottom floor of the newly renovated Hollander apartment building facing Bushnell Park indowntown Hartford. It will be the third Sunday of the month from 10 am to 1 pm starting January 17th and running through to May 16th. Please contact market master Hannah Gant for more information at 860-214-4053 or hannahgant@gmail.com.
Farm Manager position available - The Adamah Field Manager will manage vegetable production on the 5-acre
Adamah farm, which grows for a 50-share CSA, for the dining hall at the
Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in Falls Village, CT. Details>
Incubator Farmers for the 2010 season - The Community Farm of Simsbury (CFS) information meetings. Details>
Tractor for sale - FORD 9N (may be a 2N). Hydraulic lift / mechanical dump loader; Scraper Blade for 3-point hitch; New rear tires 1993, used very little since then. Tire chains. Was running well, not used for three years. Needs a new home with loving care! Buyer loads and hauls away. ASKING $2,000 - Make an offer! 860-267-8821. Pictures>
Kingbird Farm Internships- 2010 in Tioga County, NY. More>
Vegetable and Fruit Production Manager Wanted - Opportunity for an experienced vegetable producer at The Farm at Sunnyside in Rappahannock, VA. Full-time, permanent position on a 400 acre farm. Also several *seasonal intern positions available.*
For more information please visit our website or contact emily@thefarmatsunnyside.com
Caretaker- Roxbury, CT estate, FT, live-out. Landscape Maint. / handyman
work. Organic lawn care knowledge/interest a plus. Fax 860-350-4182
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| Members In the News |
Community Farm Of Simsbury
Analiese Paik from Fairfield Green Food Guide on local holiday foods
Jones Family Farm in Shelton
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| Other Items of Interest |
Pesticide Action Network is releasing a new iPhone App for the WhatsOnMyFood.org website
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If you have any stories, articles, notices or suggestions for this newsletter, please let us know!
203-888-5146
ctnofa@ctnofa.org
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