The NOFA/Mass Organic Land Care Program, a project of the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA), will present the 4th annual NOFA Organic Lawn and Turf Course at UMass Dartmouth in Dartmouth, MA on August 19, 2008, from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.This one-day, intensive course will provide state-of-the-art information for managing lawns and turf organically and is geared toward land care professionals, groundskeepers and municipalities who are responsible for the establishment and care of grass, as well as anyone interested in learning organic methods.

             More than 180 additional land care professionals are now practicing organically throughout New England and beyond, following the most successful courses sponsored by the NOFA Organic Land Care Program, a project of the Northeast Organic Farming Association. 

According to the Northeast Organic Farming Association's Web site, the use of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers is harmful to both humans and the ...

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Organic food labels conjure images of crops and meat raised without synthetic pesticides or injected hormones.

“It’s far more wonderful than that,” said Don T. Franczyk, executive director and certification administrator for Bay State Organic Certifiers of Winchendon, an agency that certifies organic farms and processes for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Chances are you've been recycling for years. You've been conserving energy and cutting back on fossil fuel consumption way before Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" made the headlines. But what about your lawn? Are you - and it - as green as you could be?

 

NOFA ANNOUNCES 6th ANNUAL NOFA ORGANIC LAND CARE COURSE

JAN. 9, 10, 11, 16 & 17, 2007 in LEOMINSTER, MASSACHUSETTS

 

Learn how to design ecological landscapes. Build your business on the health of the earth. Be one of the first in the country to become accredited in Organic Land Care.

In response to the rapidly growing demand for organic management of athletic fields, parks and lawns, the NOFA (Northeast Organic Farming Association) Organic Land Care Program will hold an intensive day-long Organic Lawn & Turf Course at the South Shore Vocational Technical High School in Hanover, MA on August 17, 2006 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.