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Publications and Merchandise
NOFA-NY publishes several informational booklets and provides other books to help farmers, gardeners and consumers with pertinent information about organic farming, food production and food choices.
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NEW DESIGN! NOFA-NY Organic Tote Bag "Organic Food from Farm to Family" reusing this bag will help preserve our natural resources, made by Enviro-Tote. X-Large 15"hx18"lx6"w. $15.00 |
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NOFA-NY 100% Organic Cotton T-Shirts! New original artwork by Karen Kerney, bountiful, global, harvest scene, "Growing Organic for the Future". 8 sizes available. $15.00 |
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New! Sharing the Harvest, 2nd Edition "is an extraordinary book, an opening to a new world in which growing and eating food will be a sharing among humans, between farmers and surrounding communities, not a commercial venture for profit. It is both utopian and practical, inspiring and down-to-earth. It is a treasure, rich with suggestions, exciting for what possibilities it foresees for the human race." Howard Zinn. Elizabeth Henderson, with Robyn Van En, 2007. 303pp. $30.00 |
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Organic Dairy Farming, A Resource for Farmers, Written for the transitioning and new organic farmer, Organic Dairy Farming brings together for the first time in a single volume the information to explain everything from organic soil management, calf care and mastitis control to the certification process and marketing for the organic premium. Combining up-to-date advice from farmers, veterinarians, researchers and consultants in the organic community, it presents organic concepts and practices in a readable form. The book includes farmer interviews demon-strating how they have successfully applied organic practices on their own farms. Over sixty illustrations, glossary, list of resources and complete index make the book highly useable. An essential tool for both the farmer and the agricultural professional. Editor, Jody Padgham, 2006. 192pp. $15.00 |
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Resource Guide for Organic Insect & Disease Management, Do you have spots on your tomatoes, holes in your cabbage, or wilt in your pumpkin vines? Does your garden suffer from canker, flea beetles, or leaf spot? Find out what causes the damage and how to manage it. This practical, information-laden guide provides organic farmers a well designed, smartly organized, and scientifically accurate source for organic farming best practices, available pest control materials, and organic farm production rules as set forth by the USDA National Organic Program (NOP), and the U.S. EPA. Perhaps most importantly, efficacy of pest control materials that are permitted for use in organic food production systems are detailed with reliable product information as reviewed in recently published trials on material efficacy. By Brian Caldwell, Emily Brown, Eric Sideman, Anthony Shelton & Christine Smart, 2005. 196pp. $10.00 |
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This Common Ground, Seasons on an Organic Farm, A beautifully written chronicle of the perennial mysteries of the seasons and the soil. Since 1990, Scott Chaskey has worked as a land steward and farmer for the Peconic Land Trust at Quail Hill Farm in Amagansett, New York, an organic community farm. Over the years, he has recorded his meditations on weather, wildlife, soil, seed, root, plant, and flower, and in This Common Ground, he has organized some of these reflections season by season, through the course of one year on the farm. Chaskey's observations reflect a doer's respect for the rhetoric of the fields and a firsthand knowledge of the interdependence of soils, plants, animals, and humans. His contagious sense of wonder and artistic sensibility illustrate why planting and reaping are such an important part of what defines the human community and the human condition. Like Joan Gussow's This Organic Life or Verlyn Klinkenborg's The Rural Life, this inspirational evocation of a life spent working the earth is certain to become a classic of nature writing, as well as appealing to today's burgeoning organic lifestyle audience. By Scott Chaskey, 2005. 210 pp. $25.00 (NEW! Paperback Edition - $14.00) |
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How to Keep Fresh Fruits & Vegetables Longer with Less Spoilage A Storage Guide From Farm to Table, A handy reference booklet intended for the farmer, market gardener, food retialer, co-op manager or consumers. With tender love and care, even with limited storage and resources, you can use what you have appropriately to keep your produce as attractive and fresh as possible. An information resource booklet published by NOFA-NY, by Tracy Frisch, 1986. 24 pp. $2.50 |
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The Wisdom of Plant Heritage, Organic Seed Production and Saving, A how-to for the small producer-the best technique for growing the seed that contains the knowledge of how to thrive, propagate and please the taste buds under local conditions. The goals of organic farming involve the principles of genetics, and this volume explains hybrid vs. open-pollinated seed. It also offers the most successful propagation techniques and tips for harvesting, preparing and storing the seed you've saved. Organic Seed Production and Saving importantly gives crop-family-by-crop-family advice and fascinating lore. In a section on commercial seed production and sales, it offers profiles of six seed companies, part of whose business is protecting the genetic heritage of the crop plant world. There is a list of seed sources and seed-saving references. Bryan Connolly is a Connecticut seed grower for Fedco and Baker Creek Seeds and an heirloom cucurbit and corn seed grower. He has worked locating heirloom varieties for seed sales. C.R. Lawn is founder of Fedco Seeds and heads the Restoring Our Seed project, which sponsors conferences and creates printed materials about saving endangered seed. Organic farmers (and all farmers and eaters) today must learn how to let no more of that vital reservoir of knowledge slip away, while using seeds to grow and sell food. Part of a series of handbooks on organic principles and practices published by NOFA, by Bryan Connolly with C.R. Lawn, 2005. 99 pp. $9.50 |
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Organic Dairy Production, Healthful organic milk comes from healthy cows, which come from good forage management based on healthy soils. Here's help in developing the observation skills and practices to get there, including chapters on soils, plants/forages, livestock, marketing and record-keeping. Health-protecting treatment options are covered, plus considerations for marketing fluid milk and value-added dairy products and coverage of regulations issues. Profiles of half a dozen individual farms help shed light on aspects of dairying and value-added production. Sarah Flack is a popular workshop presenter, an agricultural consultant and organic and biodynamic farmer from Vermont. She does independent organic certification inspections and consults on grass farming and farm design and business management. Part of a series of handbooks on organic principles and practices published by NOFA, by Sarah Flack, 2005. 99 pp. $9.50 |
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Humane and Healthy Poultry Production, A Manual for Organic Growers, The best poultry raising techniques for both layer and broiler production involve space considerations, lighting, housing, outdoor access and equipment. All receive detailed coverage. What breeds to choose? How and what to feed them? Glos offers a chapter on each question, including ten pages on diagnosing disease and restoring and protecting birds' health using organic health care practices. Management issues specific to egg and meat birds and turkeys and waterfowl are addressed, along with slaughtering procedures and packing and marketing ideas. Interspersed are detailed accounts of the author's own experiences on her Kingbird Farm. Karma Glos has a successful poultry operation, Kingbird Farm, with her husband Michael and daughter Rosie in upstate New York. She admits having "a passion for healthful, innovative livestock husbandry practices." Part of a series of handbooks on organic principles and practices published by NOFA, by Karma Glos, 2004. 99 pp. $9.50 |
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The Organic Farmer's Guide to Marketing and Community Relations, This rare bit of marketing sense inspires us to sell organic products in an organic way. The book brims with marketing techniques that have proven successful by tapping into the better side of human nature and fully respecting the spirit and biological underpinnings of communities and the Earth. For example, it proposes that organic business owners "define enough" income/growth before designing a marketing plan-partly also in order to allow the sense of a job done rather than one that's forever open-ended. With good humor and a detailed resource section, Marketing and Community Relations will help set any small-business boat afloat and on a course to sustainability and community. Rebecca Bosch is an entrepreneur, writer and nutrition activist. "Good Stuff by Mom & Me," the business that she began with her mom, produces low processed organic, raw, gluten-free foods and offers periodic classes in diet and lifestyle change. She makes her home in Ithaca, New York. Part of a series of handbooks on organic principles and practices published by NOFA, by Rebecca Bosch, 2004. 91pp. $9.50 |
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Soil Resiliency and Health, Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping on the Organic Farm, This book renders the tool of crop rotation and its close relative, cover cropping, understandable and available for reducing crop pests and disease and building soil's nutrient level, balance and general health. It's also a planning tool that releases financial benefits and allows better use of a farmer's time. Kroek clarifies the theory and practice by grouping crops according to not just plant family, but also time of planting, time to maturity, nutrient needs and other parameters. Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping gives examples of relatively simple 6-unit rotations, along with more detailed and complex 12- and 24-unit examples. Seth Kroek has been working and managing organic farms in the Northeast and California for the past eight years. He is currently working his own farm, Crystal Spring Community Farm in Brunswick, ME. with his wife, Maura, and their son Griffin. Part of a series of handbooks on organic principles and practices published by NOFA, by Seth Kroeck, 2004. 88 pp. $9.50 |
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Compost, Vermicompost & Compost Tea, Feeding the Soil on the Organic Farm, This book on the basic biology and expanding lore of composting explains the requirements of the National Organic Program (NOP) and offers a host of practical suggestions from professional composters for small-scale as well as larger-scale composting operations. The book lists materials used and their sources, plus recipes for soil mixes. It defines the elements of compost quality and stability, tells where, when and how to use compost, and explains its disease-suppressing properties. It tells how to adjust C:N ratios, moisture and nutrient content and what materials to avoid. Current findings about compost tea and effective microorganisms (EM) are there, as well as descriptions of worm-powered composting and the biodynamic method. Grace Gershuny is the author with Joe Smillie of The Soul of Soil (Chelsea Green) and is herself the author of Start with the Soil (Rodale Press). She developed NOFA's first organic certification program in 1977. Grace teaches about gardening and agriculture issues at the Institute for Social Ecology and at Sterling College. She is now consulting for the organic industry and working on a book about the real meaning of organic. She still grows most of her own veggies at her homestead in Barnet, VT. Part of a series of handbooks on organic principles and practices published by NOFA, by Grace Gershuny, 2004. 89 pp. $9.50 |
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Whole-Farm Planning, Ecological Imperatives, Personal Values and Economics, This manual takes the desire to make a living farming and shows how to turn it into reality through a workbook approach that is both personal and planetary. Worksheets and exercises coax out the often-downplayed dreams and desires, priorities and objectives that point the way to work that feeds rather than exhausts. It offers "what you need to understand about" the ecosystems that sustain the farm, social structures and processes, and the economics of the farm and food system. The tools in Whole Farm Planning, borrowed in part from Holistic Management, are powerful because they fold in all the energies that add up to life on a farm. The authors also offer systems for monitoring the plan and making adjustments in approach. Elizabeth Henderson is a partner at Peacework Organic Farm in western New York, often NOFA's emissary to the world outside the Northeast, and author of several books on organic agriculture. She also serves in numerous capacities on the boards of NOFA-NY and the NOFA Interstate Council. Karl North operates the farm he built in 1980, Northland Sheep Dairy also in New York. He has studied and has written on Holistic Management for NOFA periodicals. Part of a series of handbooks on organic principles and practices published by NOFA, by Elizabeth Henderson and Karl North, 2004. 92 pp. $9.50 |
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Vegetable Crop Health, Helping Nature Control Diseases and Pests Organically, Skilled farmers will appreciate this balanced, thorough presentation on creating a low-pest growing situation. Includes farmer-friendly chapters on organic pest management with heavy emphasis on proven no-spray cultural techniques that reduce pest numbers and damage. The book includes a full chapter on farm design and crop rotation toward this end. It gives a crop-by-crop discussion of specific pest management practices, including spray-based "rescue" treatments. The manual unlocks secrets of host plant resistance, soil health, trap cropping, cover crops, field layout, row covers and manipulating the overall farm environment. Brian Caldwell has been a commercial organic vegetable grower in New York for over 20 years, and a Cornell Cooperative Extension Educator. Part of a series of handbooks on organic principles and practices published by NOFA, by Brian Caldwell, 2004. 96 pp. $9.50 |
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Organic Soil Management, There is a complex foodweb that makes mineral dirt into fertile, living soil. This Handbook reflects that understanding of soil as more than an NPK sponge-an organism-as revealed in the work of Dr. Elaine Ingham and many organic farmers and researchers. The farmer, for better or worse, consciously or unawares, influences the balance between bacteria and fungi, acid and alkali, air and water, between each of many minerals and between minerals and organic matter. Soil's health shows up in signs the farmer can either read or test for. As Gilman's book explains, soil responds readily to well-planned, well-timed tillage, cover cropping/resting and feeding. Second of the series of handbooks on organic principles and practices published by NOFA, by Steve Gilman, 2001. 66 pp. $7.50 |
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Organic Weed Management Concepts, strategies, and methods of controlling, Weeds can be enemy, useful indicator, valued guardian, health-giving medicine. After reading this book, you're likely to see (and grow) things differently, perhaps viewing your weeds as distinctive, informative neighbors-not all of whom can stay! A commercial farmer, Gilman devotes several chapters to strategies of control: stale seedbed, use of the stirrup hoe and weedeating machines, mulching and timing. He helped pioneer the biostrip approach-periodically-mowed strips of biodiverse growth between cultivated rows which amount to intentional sod where weeds might otherwise grow and which beneficial insects can inhabit. Steve Gilman has been farming organically since 1976, growing herbs and vegetables in the Saratoga, New York area. He is a longtime presenter and writer on organic matters. Recently, he served as Managing Director of the North East Organic Network (NEON), a USDA research project administered through Cornell University. Steve has also served in numerous capacities on the boards of NOFA-NY and the NOFA Interstate Council. The first in the series of handbooks on organic principles and practices published by NOFA, by Steve Gilman, 2000. 58 pp. $7.50 |
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The Real Dirt - Second Edition - Farmers Tell About Organic and Low-Input Practices in the Northeast, A snap-shot view of the techniques and systems that organic and low-imput farmers rely on. Edited by Miranda Smith and Elizabeth Henderson, 1998. 264pp. REDUCED! $10.00 |
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Internships In Sustainable Farming: A Handbook for Farmer, Information you need to become Farmers as Teachers, An information resource pamphlet published by NOFA-NY, by Doug Jones, 1999. 15pp. Click here for free DOWLOAD. For multiple or volume discount orders, please call the office. For mail copy, $3.00 |
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The Organic Decision: Transitioning to Organic Dairy Production, Are you prepared to transition? Organic milk production is significantly different from conventional dairy farming and takes several years. An informative resource guide that includes instructions and information to help you on your way to organic production. By Steve Richards, Steve Bulkley, Craig Alexander, Wayne Knoblaugh & Dan Demaine, 2002. stapled 41 pp. $10.00 |
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Organic Livestock Handbook A guide for livestock producers who are looking for information on organic management practices as they relate to animal husbandry. By the Canadian Organic Growers, edited by Anne Macey, 2000. 179 pp. $30.00 |
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