Organic Training
Topics
The Organic Training Topics were developed to present an overview of the information and educate market growers, including certified organic growers, about proactive strategies to prevent food-borne outbreaks that may initiate at the farm level.
Food Safety
“Food Safety on the Small Farm: from Field to Market” was developed to educate market growers, including certified organic growers, about proactive strategies to prevent food borne outbreaks that may initiate at the farm level…
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Organic Marketing
The organic market has been composed mostly of small-scale producers who sold their products directly to consumers or through small, specialized local health food stores and coops…
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Organic Systems
Defined according to the National Organic Program (NOP) as: an ecological production management system that promotes and enhances biodiversity, biological cycles and soil biological activity…
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Pest Management
It is a whole-farm, ecological approach to pest management through increase in biodiversity with the establishment of hedgerows, insectary plants, cover crops and water reservoir to attract and increase beneficial organisms…
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Plant Nutrition
Long-term solutions and ecological approach Preventive not reactive Work within natural systems and cycles Maintain or increase long-term soil fertility Use renewable resources as much as possible Management…
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Soil
Surface mineral layer of the earth that is mixed with organic matter that serves as a growing media for land plants Combination of biological, physical, and chemical processes, particular to regions and climates What is soil?
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Standards Certificates
developed to present an overview of the information needed to become certified organic. This presentation includes information on the requirements for becoming certified, finding a certifier, and the steps to certification.
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