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NOFA/Mass Winter Conference (Virtual)
January 8, 2021 @ 8:00 am - January 10, 2021 @ 5:00 pm
In midst of continued pandemic, we at NOFA/Mass offer our annual Winter Conference virtually this year as a three-day informative, interactive, educational hub of happenings – Friday-Sun Jan 8-10, 2021. #NOFAWC
The event aims to highlight critical, solutions-oriented work happening state-wide to scaffold food security and to celebrate the resilience of the people of Massachusetts, embracing and ensuring communal pathways to sustained nourishment – particularly our farmers, gardeners, growers and champions of the grassroots organic soil health movement from across the Northeast. Workshop schedule and more information available on our registration site.
We are delighted to announce that Greg Watson, Director of Policy and Systems Design at Schumacher Center for a New Economics, and Eric Toensmeier, author of Perennial Vegetables and The Carbon Farming Solution, will be our keynote speakers.
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE:
This coming January, attendees will have an opportunity to gather, learn about and connect with the tremendous proactive local efforts around soil health and food security in response to the demands made apparent by the pandemic.
ABOUT NOFA/MASS:
About NOFA/Mass: A member-funded non-profit organization focused on education and advocacy for organic agriculture. Mission: Through education and advocacy NOFA/Mass promotes organic agriculture to expand the production and availability of nutritious food from living soil for the health of individuals, communities and the planet. NOFA/Mass is the Massachusetts state chapter of the Northeast Organic Farming Association. Other regional NOFA chapters include New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont.