Full Heart Farm is excited to be wrapping up our third growing season and begin planning for 2015! The 2014 growing season produced ...

By Bill Duesing The month after Vermont governor Peter Shumlin signed into law the country's first genetically modified organism (G...

Thank you everyone who attended our Special Culinary Fundraiser and Summer Gathering !  CT NOFA had an incredible time at Winvian last w...

CT NOFA is proud to announce the next round of Journeyperson farmers to take part in the 2 year program funded by a grant from the National ...

by Bill Duesing Lester Brown's Who Will Feed China?: Wake Up Call for a Small Planet was published nearly 20 years ago.   Bill...

Swift Farms sold their amazing bees wax products I don’t know about you, but the staff at CT NOFA is still bathing in the afterglow of ...

The growth of the good, local food movement has been a real bright spot in Connecticut for at least a decade. Vibrant farmers markets have ...

Executive Director, Eileen Hochberg, discusses fighting worms for her brussels sprouts! "This year for the first time ever absolutely...

Neonicotinoids (or neonics) have again been implicated in three new studies about the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Over a milli...

Photo: Hoosier Ag Today Yesterday, a few hundred farmers went to Washington, D.C. to rally for passage of a new farm bill.  The Democrat...

Yesterday the USDA announced that Illinois farmers are eligible to apply for emergency assistance because of the drought.  The dry condit...

In the past couple days, three articles have caught our eye in the CT NOFA office: Owner responsibility for private well quality is at hea...

The lawsuit against Monsanto continues.  Read the press release from the Public Patent Foundation below: Seventy-five family farmers, seed...

The NOFA Summer Conference is August 10-12 at UMass Amherst and it's time to add it to your calendar!  There are two keynote speakers th...

                 The first step is to make sure that the crop you are interested in saving seeds from is not a hybrid plant, but rather a...

Footsteps Farm has been in Craig Floyd’s family since 1712.  Craig is a confident long-time farmer with a comprehensive understanding of his...

When CT NOFA tables at farmers markets and other environmental events, a lot of people drop by the table and ask questions about gardening. ...

Twelve women who enrolled in Connecticut’s Beginning Women Farmer program graduated from the training program at their final class at the Co...

We are getting really excited about our Humane and Sustainable Livestock workshop! Craig Floyd, the farmer at Footsteps Farm sent us some pi...