Resources
Media
Read the latest policy issues, upcoming workshops, growing tips, and updates on the NOFA/Mass and organic growing community.
A podcast all about Organic farming, sustainability and food systems for everyone who cares about food, where it comes from and how it’s grown. We will dive into topics, interview amazing guests and hear from our listeners about what is going well or not so well on their farms. Stay tuned because each episode will be better than the last!
The quarterly newspaper of the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA). Free with your NOFA/Mass membership.
An abundance of video content from our previous lectures, events, monthly community calls and conferences.
Directories & Community Resources
Check out seedling and spring plant sale offerings around the state!
Working as an intern or apprentice on an organic farm is one of the best ways to learn about organic farming. It can be a mutually beneficial arrangement for farmer and intern alike. The organizations on this list connect farmers with interns. If interested, contact farms well in advance of the growing season to receive information. To place an ad, follow this link.
Farm Specific Resources
A NOFA/Mass project funded by the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources
During the course of a three-year period, six experienced organic farmers offered mentorship, conference workshops and on-farm workshops to a wide range of participants regarding their high tunnel management strategies.
NOFA/Mass Technical Advisor Allison Houghton visited each farm and collaborated with the farmers to write six fact sheets about the innovations that these growers are implementing in their season extension and high tunnels practices.
If you own a commercial farm, when purchasing specific items you automatically qualify for an exemption from the Massachusetts Sales Tax of 6.25%.
Over the past two years, three NOFA chapters- Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts- have worked with 30 organic vegetable farmers to determine the cost of production of vegetable crops commonly grown in the Northeast. Each farmer selected one to three crops and received technical assistance in tracking and analyzing data for those crops. The results were then aggregated on a per acre basis to serve as metrics in farmers’ crop and production planning and to assist farmers in strategically increasing the profitability of their farm businesses.
Agroforestry practices cover a broad range of land use patterns where pasture or crops are integrated with trees and shrubs. Intentionally combining agriculture and forestry is great for our farmers and our bioregion, and results in many benefits, including: increased yields of a variety of nutrient dense foods, enhanced farmer livelihoods from income generation, increased biodiversity, improved soil structure and health, reduced erosion, and carbon sequestration. Find more resources within our Agroforestry Program page.
Whether you are preparing for your first season working on a farm, or looking to access technical farming skills and farm business resources, there are programs and guides available to you here.
Policy & Advocacy Resources
Advocating for effective, affordable, transparent, ecologically responsible, and scientifically-based mosquito disease management in Massachusetts.
Communities across the country are deciding to take action against toxic pesticides and the dangers they pose to humans and wildlife. By using tools like local ordinances and resolutions, cities and towns can create policies to promote organic landcare and farming practices.
A plethora of resources about Organic standards and practices.
This webpage will serve as a portal for education and action resources for NOFA/Mass members and our broader community of farmers, gardeners and eaters. Most of the currently available information re: PFAS and soil is coming from Maine, which was early in sounding the alarm.
Raising your own chickens in urban or suburban neighborhoods is becoming more and more popular. For those who eat eggs and meat, there is no fresher, more healthy and nutritious source than organically fed poultry raised under the personal attention of the owner.
