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There's no better way to support our long march to an organic Connecticut than joining or renewing your membership.
As a member, you become an integral and active part of our community of farmers, gardeners, land care professionals, educators, chefs and consumers committed to growing Connecticut organically.
Your donations and membership fuel our work providing organic-themed workshops, advocacy, and events that celebrate local foods, farmers and ecological heroes.
All donations are tax-deductible. Please give generously.
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GET EXPERT
HELP ON YOUR TAXES!
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Real Grass vs. Fake Is A No-Brainer!
Real Grass Is Cheaper & Safer
On January 11, CT NOFA Executive Director Jeff Cordulack was invited by Greenwich, CT community members to speak against a town budget proposal that would allocate $5,000,000 for new fake turf fields at public middle schools. Over a dozen well informed Greenwich residents also spoke against the proposal.
Mr. Cordulack's pointed comments focused on the high financial cost of fake turf vs installing good grass fields. He argued that they could have great grass fields, like many Connecticut towns do, while saving millions of dollars that could be used to rip out existing fake turf fields that contain crumb rubber infill. He cited
page 13 of the Turf Grass Resource Center report, "Natural Grass and Artificial Turf: Separating Myths and Facts
", as one of the many papers debunking the myth that fake turf is cheaper. That report estimates that real grass can be had for $1 to approximately $8 per square foot (depending on native soils vs sand caps) while fake turf is estimated to cost approximately $8 to $11 per square foot and has to be replaced every 5 to 10 years.
The evening's comments were covered by the Greenwich Free Press and quoted Jeff
Cordulack in the article.
For facts sheets on the topic, visit:
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In the Capitol ~ Talking up carbon farming
On Monday, February 5, executive director Jeff Cordulack and CT NOFA founder, Bill Duesing, met with state legislators in Hartford to encouraged them to take up CT NOFA's Healthy Soils legislation. If passed, this bill would incentivize 'regenerative' agricultural practices like multi-species cover cropping and no-till farming methods. These and other practices will help farmers resist drought and produce higher-quality crops.
To support Jeff and Bill's efforts, start a CT NOFA membership or add a little donation online today:
ctnofa.org/Donate
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Film Screening and Reception
Saturday, March 3
New Morning Market | Woodbury, CT
5:00 pm Rare Bean Reception
6:00 pm Discussion & Film Screening
Ever heard of the Long Island Cheese Pumpkin? Bootleggers corn? Hank's X-Tra Special Baking Bean? Join the organic food and farming community for a great afternoon reception and film screening featuring CT NOFA's Executive Director Jeff Cordulack and the Slow Food Metro North chairperson, Donna Simons when they introduce the film, discuss Slow Food's mission and the Slow Food Ark of Taste - a growing catalogue of rare foods and species that were almost forgotten. Guests will learn about these nearly lost foods and sample a few dishes made with them before the film.
About the film: For nearly four decades, John Coykendall's passion has been preserving the farm heritage - the seeds and stories - of a small, farming culture in Southeastern Louisiana. Nominated for two 2017 Suncoast Emmy Awards, Deeply Rooted chronicles how Coykendall has tracked down and safeguarded rare and heirloom varieties of crops from the region and safely returned them to the descendants of farmers who described them to him decades earlier. John's specialty - beans! Hundreds and hundreds of bean
varieties. To view a trailer: www.lpb.org/deeplyrooted.
Please RSVP for this event at: [email protected] | 203-308-2584 | www.ctnofa.org. Light refreshments available thanks to New Morning Market and BYOB welcome. Suggested donations for this mini fundraising event: $10-$50 per person. An opportunity to make additional donations & new memberships will be available at the event.
To invite friends via Facebook, please click
here.
Thanks to New Morning Market for hosting!
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Farm Credit East presents...
5 Hurdles of Planning a Transition
for your Ag Business
Join Farm Credit East for a
free webinar on February 15, from 1:00 to 2:00PM EST on Farm Transition/Succession Planning. Farm Transition Planning is a topic that every ag business farm owner/operator will have to face as they wind down their career.
Register here.
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UCONN's Solid Ground Workshops
