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Date: May 30, 2012 2:54:32 PM EDT
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Fresh News
Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
Dear Pauline,Join NOFA-NY on June 17th at the Northland Sheep Dairy for "Make Hay While the Sun Shines: Working with Horses and Mules" field day. The day will include a morning session from 9am to noon titled "Working the Loose Horse - What to do When You Bring Home a New Horse or a New Teamster". With horses loose in a corral, we will talk about; and try to demonstrate, how horses interact with each other. We will discuss their senses, communication, and natural responses. We will work on teaching new and old teamsters alike how to use this information when beginning a relationship with a horse or team. We will consider how experienced teamsters can use this information while helping a beginning teamster.
The afternoon session "Making Hay with Horses - Mowing, Tedding, Raking, and Baling Demonstrated," will go from 1pm. to 4pm. Making hay with horses and mules is one of their primary tasks on the farm. We will hook up and demonstrate two horse drawn mowers, rakes, and tedders. We will pull a baler with a gas powered PTO forecart. We will answer questions about equipment, preparing animals for this work, and how much to expect to get done. A potluck lunch will hopefully include plenty of time for folks to visit and talk to other horse farmers.
Northland Sheep Dairy: 3501 Hoxie Gorge Freetown Rd., Marathon, NY 13803 (Cortland Co.)FREE for NOFA-NY and DAPNet Members / $15 All Others. To register please contact Stephanie Backer-Bertsch at (585) 271-1979 ext 509 or register online at http://tinyurl.com/nofanyevents.
NOFA-NY Job Openings
We are seeking an Education Director to work with the Executive Director and Education Team to lead the organization's farmer, gardener, and small business educational initiatives, including the Winter Conference, Organic Dairy & Field Crop Conference, on-farm field day series, intensive workshops, and general technical assistance. This is a middle-management position. Please see our website for more information and help spread the word!: http://www.nofany.org/about/work-us.
Organic Fruit & Vegetable CoordinatorWe are hiring an Organic Fruit & Vegetable Coordinator to coordinate and plan the organization's education and technical assistance education for fruit and vegetable farmers including planning on-farm field days, advanced farmer workshops, conference fruit and vegetable workshops, general technical assistance, and planning the new NOFA bulk program. This is position is one of 5 education team members and located in the Rochester office or a NYS telecommuting position. Please see our website for more information and help spread the word!: http://www.nofany.org/about/work-us.
Be on the lookout for the FULL listing of NOFA-NY Summer Field Days in the upcoming newsletter! To register for NOFA-NY Field Days, please call Stephanie Backer Bertsch at (585) 271-1979 ext 509 or register online at http://www.tinyurl.com/nofanyevents.
Sustainability and Reality: Lessons Learned from Ten Years as Diversified Small-Scale Farmers
Kent Family Growers: 1301 CR 31, Lisbon, NY 13658 (St. Lawrence Co.)
FREE for NOFA-NY Members / $15 All OthersJoin NOFA-NY and Kent Family Growers on Saturday June 9th from 2:00-5:00 PM at Sustainability and Reality: Lessons Learned from Ten Years as Diversified Small-Scale Farmers. The day will include a tour of Kent Family Growers - a vegetable farm that uses human, draft-animal and petroleum power- and discussion will center on production and management practices that evolved through seasons of tears and cheers. Daniel and Megan Kent will teach us how pests, weeds, diseases, labor, crops and the farm are sustainably managed today, relating the background stories and experiences that explain the all-important "why" behind their management decisions. Participants will learn to judge a practice's value to the overall production system by assessing the pros and cons of its inputs, investment and results. This field day is part of our Beginning Farmer Program; all participants are invited to stay for an informal farmer-to-farmer networking reception and potluck dinner following the presentation. For more information, click here.
Biological IPM Strategies with Abby Seaman on Gonzalez Farm
Gonzalez Farm, 473 Pine Island Turnpike, Pine Island, NY 10924
FREE for NOFA-NY Members/ $15 All Others
Come tour Gonzalez Farm with Cornell University's Vegetable IPM Coordinator Abby Seaman June 17th from 9:00 AM- Noon. The rich muck soil on Gonzalez Farm presents unique soil, weed and pest management challenges, including issues with cutworms, brassica flea beetles and phytophthora blight. This workshop will focus on understanding the life cycles of these pests, and Abby will present research-based IPM strategies, including biological and cultural control methods, as well as organic pesticides.
Alternative Meat Markets and Halal Production
Norwich Meadow Farms, 4450 State Hwy 23, Norwich, NY (Chenango Co.)
FREE for NOFA-NY Members/ $15 for All Others
Want to learn more about on farm processing and alternative meat marketing? Join us on June 20 from 11:00 AM-2:00 PM to hear from Zaid Kurdieh as he explain how Norwich Meadows Farm has expanded their farm to include on-farm Halal Processing. Join us as we tour the far, learn the basics of Halal processing, and discuss strategies for securing alternative meat markets. Attendees will go home with an understanding of the regulations associated with adding on-farm processing to a farm business, as well as the challenges that produces may encounter when first entering an alternative market.
NOFA-NY News
NOFA Summer Conference Online Registration Open!
Join over 1400 people from across the Northeast for NOFA's famous Summer conference at UMass Amherst from August 10-12, 2012. The conference will host keynote speakers Congresswoman Chellie Pengree (ME) and Jeffrey Smith, Institute for Responsible Technology. We will also feature over 200 workshops on organic gardening, farming, food politics, permaculture, homesteading, landscaping, alternative energy, livestock, cooking, and more! Hundreds of vendors and exhibitors, live enterainment, a Children's and Teen Conference, and a county fair will take place as well. To register, please the website www.nofasummerconference.org. For questions, please call (413) 362-2143 or email info@nofasummerconference.org.
Get Your NOFA Credit Card Today!
Go Organic when you shop! Sign up for a NOFA credit card through Capital One to support NOFA's important policy work to build a strong, regional organic food system. It's easy! Just shop for things you buy every day and NOFA gets a $50 donation upon first use and at least 1% of all purchases. What a great way to buy a gift for Father's Day, June 17th! SIGN UP TODAY!
Policy & Action 
New Yorkers Against Fracking need your help to build a list of 1,000 businesses against fracking in the next week!It's easy to do, but NYAF needs help from all of their allies and members across the state if we are going to get this done!1. Check out the toolkit that we prepared to walk you through this process.2. Print out 5 copies of the business endorsement form.3. Make a list of local business owners to speak to about fracking. We are particularly targeting anyone that works with food (chefs, restaurants, farms, delis, caterers, etc.), but any business would be great. Not sure who to visit? Think of your employer or any professional contacts that you may have. Or consider the places that know you because you are a regular customer.4. Speak to 5 - 10 local business about the dangers of fracking. Ask them to use the endorsement form to sign-up to support our coalition efforts.5. When you get home, use the endorsement form to submit the information about the businesses that signed on into our web site.6. Ask 5 friends, neighbors or co-workers to get 5 businesses signed on for a ban. Forward this email, share the toolkit and talk to them about how easy the process is. You can always promise to invite them to your celebration party when we permanently ban fracking in NY State!
General Information & Regional Events
Hemp History Week June 4-10The 3rd Annual Hemp History Week will be held June 4-10, 2012. A national grassroots education campaign designed to renew strong support for hemp farming in the U.S., Hemp History Week 2012 will feature events in cities and towns throughout all fifty states. For more information see: www.HempHistoryWeek.com. A primary objective of Hemp History Week is to advocate for a federal policy change to end the ban on hemp farming and let farmers grow the versatile and profitable crop--this is a policy that NOFA-NY has supported in our annual policy resolution process. A Senate bill is expected to be introduced later this year. To write your Senators to urge them to co-sign the Industrial Hemp Farming Act HR 1831 visit: http://capwiz.com/votehemp/home/.
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May 30-31, 2012
June 3, 2012
June 4 ,2012
June 5, 2012
NOFA-NY Certified Organic, LLC
Any farms or businesses interested in becoming certified organic through NOFA-NY can reach the certification office by
certifiedorganic@nofany.org
phone at (607)724-9851
or by email
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York, Inc.
NOFA-NY
(585) 271-1979
249 Highland AveRochester, NY 14620
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York | 249 Highland Ave | Rochester | NY | 14620
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