Farming Associations

Educational conferences, workshops, farm tours and printed materials to educate farmers, gardeners, consumers and land care professionals.

A Western North Carolina community-based collaborative focused on sustaining farms and rural communities through an integrated action program of: farmland protection, sustainable production systems, policy development and promotion of marketing initiatives.

A resource for organic dairy farmers and organic milk producers.

Committed to sustainable agriculture and the development of locally-based, organic food systems. CFSA provides support of local and organic food systems through promotion and marketing assistance; education and advocacy efforts; and information sharing/networking.

Seeking to create working partnerships with groups who have related goals in agricultural endeavors, present entrepreneurial and sustainable agriculture workshops, and organize planning and research for a Community Food Assessment.

We are offering independent, third-party certification services to interested producers and processors in the Midwestern United States.

The Independent Organic Inspectors Association (IOIA) is a non-profit, professional association of organic farm, livestock, and process inspectors dedicated to verification of organic production practices. IOIA was founded in 1991 by organic inspectors who recognized the need for uniform inspector processes and protocols to build inspector skills and promote public confidence.

The Organic Trade Association (OTA) is the membership-based business association for the organic industry in North America. OTA’s mission is to encourage global sustainability through promoting and protecting the growth of diverse organic trade.

Demeter organizations in Europe, America, and Africa belong to Demeter International and work according to the same obligatory standards.

romotes and supports research in all areas of Organic Agriculture by facilitating global co-operation in research, methodological development, education and knowledge exchange; supporting individual researchers through membership services, publications and events and integrating stakeholders in the research process.

Organic Eprints is an international open access archive for papers related to research in organic agriculture. The archive contains full-text papers in electronic form together with bibliographic information, abstracts and other metadata.

Our mission is to help agriculture make the transition to a sustainable organic system of farming that is ecologically sound, economically viable, and socially just, through information, education, research, and integrating the broader community into this effort.

SSAWG was founded in 1991 to develop communication between organizations and individuals invested in sustainable agriculture, to collaborate on projects, and to put farmers in a leadership role in the sustainable agriculture movement. Southern SAWG’s video series titled Natural Farming Systems in the South provides an easy, economical way for producers and information multipliers to take a virtual tour chocked full of special learning opportunities of some highly successful farming operations in the region.