Northeast Organic Farming Association Massachusetts Chapter

Our 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.

We encourage methods of farming and gardening that can continue for generations because they show respect for the soil, water, and air which support us all.

We promote political and economic changes necessary to build a sustainable local agriculture that benefits rural, suburban and urban Massachusetts.

We are concerned about the dangers posed by pesticides, herbicides and chemical fertilizers along with the growing destruction of topsoil caused by erosion and loss of humus.

We advocate sustainable growing practices which not only conserve but actually renew and improve our environment.

We are looking at improved access for all to organic food and organic land and farming; with a consciousness of reaching low-income and marginalized people. Further, we are examining how NOFA itself perpetuates systems of privilege, and how we can begin to change that.