This is a collective buying program for Baystate-approved, organically certifiable farm, garden, and lawn care products. Products include compost; potting soil; fertilizers; mineral amendments; tools for the farm and garden; animal supplements; and tuber, allium, and cover crop seed.
Others continue to be resources for continuing education and feedback. Mark Fulford, a Maine orchardist, farmer and consultant has been important in the evolution of the farm, first as a consultant and then as a friend and mentor. Mark has offered a lot of practical guidance for building soil fertility recipes. He has a healthy skepticism for soil tests, though he thinks they are a good tool.
Noah also utilizes UMass extension and regularly picks the brain of MOFGA’s Organic Crop and Conservation Specialist, Caleb Goossen, who also happens to be a college friend from Hampshire.
At this point in time Noah isn’t reading many books on fertility but is recently intrigued by the book Human Scale by Kirkpatrick Sale. It is an interesting critique of big government and big business and an argument for a decentralized way of governing. He is definitely in the Schumacher School of Thought.
As of January 1st, the 2019 NOFA Tri-State Bulk Order is officially open for business. The Bulk Order team has been working diligently to bring you a great selection of farming and gardening supplies for your growing season; we have potting soil, cover crop seeds, soil amendments, packing supplies, tools, tubers, onion sets, and more. Here are some particularly exciting things about the 2019 NOFA Tri-State Bulk Order:
With the darkest days of winter behind us, we slowly march toward the exciting and exhilarating prospects of our farming and gardening missions. Like a moth to the flame, we collectively turn our attention to strategizing our approach to the upcoming growing season. And with a familiar delight, we relish the winter’s ruminations on those perennial questions that will determine our individual approach to this growing season. These questions that have been reverberating inside our minds, filling our notebooks and populating spreadsheets, now become slightly more urgent. We begin to work our calendars backward to the origins of the upcoming working of seed and soil. Some of those timelines seem imminent already.
For this reason, we curate 60+ workshop presenters and 60+ vendors to come together at the epicenter of our NOFA calendar of events, the annual Winter Conference.
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Upcoming Events
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32nd Annual NOFA/Mass Winter Conference with Keynoter John Kempf
January 12, 2019
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Bulk Order Program
2019 Bulk Order Opens Jan 1st
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Organic Certification
We can help with your Organic Certification
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Soil Carbon Restoration
Read our Soil Carbon Restoration white paper
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Soil Technical Assistance Program
Help with soil balancing