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The CT NOFA January 2010 Newsletter is posted online. Enjoy!
These are just a few of the noteworthy upcoming events listed in this issue:

10th Annual NOFA Course in Organic Land Care
CT NOFA Getting Started in Organic Farming
CT NOFA’s 28th Annual Conference ~ Sustaining Connecticut: Growing Local, Eating Healthier, Living Smarter

I just renewed my membership to CT NOFA (Northeast Organic Farming Association) and this is one annual check I do not mind writing.
Their tagline is “Cultivating an Organic Connecticut since 1982.” They were organic before organic was cool. Just to put it in perspective, the U.S. President in 1982 thought ketchup was a vegetable.
Being a [...]

Here’s my Week #2 meal for the One Local Summer challenge:
I got a fresh chicken at Holbrook Farm from a local farm in Roxbury—not sure why they didn’t say where. The chicken came with everything (head, feet, and the innards neatly packed in a baggie). We don’t generally get fresh chicken in CT because we [...]

Last January, I attended a talk by Michael Pollan in Madison, CT. The event included a Farmer’s Market, which included a CT NOFA display booth.They asked if I wanted to join and I admitted that I was not a farmer, just an eater. They said that was fine and I’ve been a member since. Membership [...]

The October 2008 Eat Local Challenge is coming to an end and I’m a bit disappointed that I didn’t have a slew of gourmet local meals to share here. I’m disappointed that I actually ate more “away” meals this month than the month before simply because that’s the way the calendar played out with social [...]

At the NOFA Conference this summer, I learned that those stickers on produce mean more than I thought. I thought the PLU stickers were for checkout folks who really don’t know their fruits and veggies or a convenience for the self-checkout. It turns out they also give you a clue as to how the food [...]

Sometimes, life just takes you to wonderful places.
We left the NOFA Conference and segued into our summer vacation: visiting friends and enjoying some down time in the great state of VT. I decided to pick up some raw milk at a farm along the way–well, slightly off the beaten path. This required us to move [...]

I went to the 2008 NOFA Conference as an eater, not a farmer. My expectations ran the gamut until ultimately, I’m not sure exactly what I was expecting at all. Some questions I had were: Would it be boring? Would it be aimed at specifically at farmers? Could a small gardener/big eater glean enough to [...]