This was presented by Bill Duesing, NOFA Interstate Council president at the NOFA Summer Conference in August 2011 in celebration of NOFA's 40th Anniversary
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NOFA History, 2011 Conference presentation
1. Welcome to the
40th Annual Meeting
of the
Northeast Organic Farming Association
NOFA
2. NOFA’s 40th Anniversary
Celebration Committee
Julie Rawson
Elizabeth Henderson
Grace Gershuny
Robert Cox
Bill Duesing
Questions for old and new members:
1. When, how and why did you get involved with NOFA?
2. Tell us a story about the most memorable person or event you remember from
NOFA.
3. What is the most important thing that NOFA has accomplished so far?
4. What are the major challenges and/or next great projects that lie ahead?
3. The Northeast
Home of the oldest organic farming
associations
in the country
MOFGA and NOFA.
Both are 40 years old in 2011.
4. Dennis Sauer and Bob Hawk wrote:
(In 1971) a group of farmers met in Putney,
Vermont to talk. They talked about the
problems of marketing their crops, of
becoming good vegetable farmers, of
developing techniques that would not
erode the soil and would produce
wholesome, healthy food.
They founded the
Natural Organic Farmers Association,
dedicated to making the small organic
family farm an economic reality.
5. Founded in Putney VT in the fall of 1971
as the
Natural Organic Farmers Association
6. NOFA is a now network of over
5,000 farmers, gardeners,
consumers, activists, and land care
professionals belonging to seven
independent state chapters.
7. NOFA consists of 3 entities
•7 State chapters
• The Interstate Council
•The membership as a whole
8. State chapters
in Connecticut, Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York,
Rhode Island and Vermont
9. Each state chapter carries out a variety of educational and
advocacy programs including:
Winter Conferences
On-Farm workshops
Outreach activities
Publishing Guides to Organic Farms
Some chapters
• certify farms and processors (VT and NY)
• work on Raw Milk (Mass, especially),
• manage all the state’s farmers markets (VT)
• provide dairy technical assistance (VT and NY)
• provide extension services (VT, NY, CT and Mass)
• provide bulk ordering programs
• Offer a Farmer’s Pledge program (NY and CT)
10. Brief Time Line
1970s, Vermont and New Hampshire formed
separate chapters and the
Interstate Council to
coordinate the chapters and
the members in other states.
1982 Connecticut and Massachusetts chapters
1984 New York chapter
1980s New Jersey and Rhode Island Chapters
1993 Name changed to
Northeast Organic Farming Association
1999 NOFA Organic Land Care Program started
11. George Hall
In 1973, George Hall from CT put vegetables on
the NOFA truck taking vegetables to day care
centers and shelters in New York City.
Last Saturday he was at the market in New Haven.
12. Jane Dwinell
NOFA/VT Bylaws, 1979
What I remember is great board meetings,
with fabulous potlucks, and good
conversations.
13. We joined NOFA in 1975, soon after we moved to VT and bought our land.
The only contact we had was through The Natural Farmer – meetings were
too far away.
Jack Lazor
Butterworks Farm
late 70s or early 80s
15. NOFA is dedicated to a vision
of interconnected healthy communities
living in ecological balance,
deeply rooted in a sense of place,
grounded in organic care of the land.
NOFA Vision Statement
16. Samuel Kaymen
Unity College’s honorary doctorate being presented for Kaymen’s extraordinary
accomplishments in organic agriculture, ecologically-based farming, sustainable
food systems, and his ability to link that vision to social justice, environmental
education, international peace, and community well-being.
17. NOFA Interstate Council
oversees regional activities on behalf of the state
chapters
Since near the beginning these have been
The Natural Farmer
and
The Summer Conference
18. Julie Rawson
Jack Kittredge
NOFA/Mass ED and
Editor
Summer Conference
The Natural Farmer
Coordinator,
Since 1986
1986-2010
20. *Northeast Organic & Sustainable Farmers Network (Interstate NOFA LISA-
funded project) team: Front: Ed McGlew, Margaret Christie, Enid Wonnacott,
Miranda Smith. Rear: Grace Gershuny, Vern Grubinger, Judy Green, Karen
Idoine (all l-r) – at NESFI, Belchertown, MA
c.1989
23. The NOFA Interstate Council published
NOFA Organic Principles and Practices Handbook Series
in 2004
Reprinted by Chelsea Green in 2011
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25. Elizabeth Henderson
NOFA has encouraged thousands of people to learn more about
organic gardening and farming and to share what they learned
freely with others.
27. Alter natives to
Insecticides for
Managing
Vegetable Insects
Proceedings of a
Farmer/Scientist Conference
Dr. Kim Stoner
December 6 and 7, 1998
New Haven, Connecticut
30. As a young biologist,
father and enthusiastic
gardener (who wanted to
grow pesticide-free food
for his family), I attended
some of the first NOFA
Summer Conferences at
High Mowing School in
N.H. searching for
information. Those
conferences were held in
the early 1970s and after
40 years as an organic
grower I still look toward
NOFA for information
Ed Stockman
31. Derek Christianson
NOFA/Mass board member 2002
Started farming in 2002
I would suggest that helping to build a culture of an
open sharing of knowledge among the agricultural
community has been key. The capacity for our region
grows exponentially when farmers share their experience
and understanding with others.
32. NOFA has been
the route
through which
people can take
charge of their
lives and what
they eat, ...
Leslie Cox
33. I think that being more
inclusive and going
beyond the farmer or
the grower. I always
believe that the farmers
are not strong if the
consumers are not
there. I have always
been a proponent of
working with other
groups – environmental,
policy, including the
government – which we
never thought would
happen.
Lynda Simpkins
President, NOFA/Mass
34. How about David
Yarrow giving a
workshop on sea
minerals and trace
elements and
vibrations and
geometric
structures and
photosynthesis in
my early teens at
the NOFA Summer
Conference – when I
was 14 or 15 years
old – opening my
eyes to the amazing
complexity and
Dan Kittredge order behind the
35. Wendy Wallick
We all owe great thanks to the hundreds of board
members, members and volunteers who have
created and grown NOFA and its chapters.
37. 3. What is the most important
thing that NOFA has accomplished so
far?
Creating seven strong state
organizations that have fostered a
thriving organic farmer-network and
organic community and movement
across the Northeast. On a national-
scale, this is a huge accomplishment
in itself. We tend to take the NOFA
organizations and the interstate
network for granted, but these
resources are quite unique and set a
high standard across the nation.
Kate Mendenhall, Executive Director, NOFA-NY
38. Expanding the
community of
those who
honor and
support “the
beauty, the
integrity and
the stability
of the biota.”
Scott Chasky
former president, NOFA/NY
41. NOFA Conference Keynote Speakers
1975 - Wendell Berry
1979 - Bill Mollison
1982 - Robert Rodale
1987 - Dr Jack Dennison from UMass 2000 - Eliot Coleman
1988 - Helen Nearing 2001 - Catherine Sneed
1989 - Noel Perrin 2002 - Joel Salatin
1990 - Marty Strange 2003 - Sally Fallon
1991 - Dana Jackson 2004 - Vandana Shiva
1992 - Joan Gussow 2005 - Satish Kumar
1993 - Kent Whealy 2006 - Miriam Therese McGillis
1994 - Frances Moore- Lappe & Paul Martin DuBois 2007 - Bill McKibben & Hazel Henderson
1995 - Lynn Miller 2008 - Arden Andersen &Mark McAfee
1996 - Rosalie Sinn 2009 - Paul Stamets & Will Allen
1997 - Gene Logsdon 2010 - Catherine Murphy & Sally Fallon
1998 - Wendell Berry
1999 - Inger Kallander
42. The NOFA Organic Land Care Program has
the mission "to extend the vision and
principles of organic agriculture to the care of
the landscapes where people live, work and
play."
43. NOFA Organic
Land Care
Program
formed by
NOFA/Mass and
CT NOFA in
2000
Currently over 550
NOFA Accredited Organic
Professionals in 20 states
45. The Natural Farmer is archived at UMass’s DuBois Library
Many back issues are available on line.
Funding for searchable on-line versions secured.
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Each NOFA chapter dedicates programming to aspiring and just-starting farmers, collectively referred to as Beginner Farmers.
Through a project supported by the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program of the National Institute of Food and
Agriculture, USDA, Grant # 2010-49400-21847, NOFA-NY, NOFA-VT, NOFA/Mass, NOFA-NJ, CT NOFA and NOFA-NH have been
able to explore the needs of Beginner Farmers in their states and expand their programs to better support and serve those needs.
Particular emphasis is placed on improving Beginner Farmers' access to education and peer support and networking.
This education and networking happens through:
Workshop tracks at each state's winter conference
Scholarships to Annual Conferences
Year-round Beginner Farmer gatherings, farm tours, social events and summit meetings
Apprenticeship and mentorship opportunities
Beginner Farmer Programming is a coordinated regional effort. The chapters of NOFA aim to attract farmers to the Northeast to
NOFA Beginning Farmer Project
earn to farm and to provide the environment for this to happen. Furthermore, the NOFA chapters support these Beginner Farmers as they move beyond the apprenticeship and on-
farm learning phase into starting up and maintaining successful farm enterprises. Each chapter administers distinct programming to better meet the educational and networking needs
within their state.
the first joint project of most state chapters and
Please use the links on this page to navigate to each state's webpage for Beginner Farmers.
MOFGA with the goal to
Beginning Farmer Programs by State
NOFA-NY: www.nofany.org/bfam
NOFA-NJ: www.nofanj.org/beginningfarmer.htm
make the Northeast
NOFA-VT: www.nofavt.org/grow-organic-food/beginning_farmers
NOFA-NH: www.nofanh.org
a great place to learn to farm.
CT NOFA: www.ctnofa.org/index.htm
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47. NOFA is a member of
• International Federation of Organic
Agriculture Movements (IFOAM)
• National Sustainable Agriculture
Coalition (NSAC)
• National Organic Coalition (NOC)
Steve Gilman Policy Coordinator
48. NOFA is proud to be a founding member of
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is more than a marketing label!
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55. Organic agriculture is an ecological
production management system that
promotes and enhances biodiversity,
biological cycles and soil biological
activity. It is based on minimal use of
off-farm inputs and on management
practices that restore, maintain and
enhance ecological harmony.
The primary goal of organic agriculture
is to optimize the health and
productivity of interdependent
communities of soil life, plants, animals
and people."
USDA Definition
56. The future of human life on
earth hangs in the balance.
Despair dogs us. Things could
go either way – towards the
destructive triumph of short-
sighted greed or towards a
limitless blossoming of
creativity, cooperation and
democracy, a world of
interdependent self-reliant
communities where people
grow their own food, live
lightly and share generously.
That means that everything
each of us does that contributes
to the health of our planet
Liz Henderson however modestly can be what
will make the difference.
58. David Yarrow writes
To have put in place the framework for a
sustainable regional food system in the
northeast, especially the growers, shared
knowledge base, food marketing
infrastructures, and ideological alliances.