FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
9 natural farmers throughout the nation chosen to obtain technical assist for subsequent spherical of revolutionary on-farm analysis trials
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., April 14, 2025 — The Natural Farming Analysis Basis (OFRF) is happy to announce the subsequent cohort of natural farmers that shall be main on-farm analysis trials with OFRF technical help in 2025.
Natural farming takes an excessive amount of dedication, monetary funding, and steady trial and error to adapt to an array of challenges from pests, ailments, soil administration, and local weather change. With a view to deal with the particular challenges licensed natural and transitioning-to-organic growers face, it’s important that farmers assist lead efforts to establish issues and trial options. On this effort, OFRF offers technical help to a small cohort of natural growers every year by way of our Farmer-Led Trials (FLT) program.
Constructed within the spirit of curiosity and collaboration, the FLT program offers assist to farmers in order that they’ll strive new practices, inputs, varieties, or animal breeds that may enhance profitability and environmental sustainability.
“Each season, we alter our rising strategies and check out new strategies. However inevitably the season will get busy, we lose monitor of outcomes and find yourself with incomplete impressions of what labored or didn’t,” defined Lindsay Klaunig, proprietor and operator of Trouvaille Farm in Ohio and a participant in OFRF’s 2024 FLT program. “With the FLT program, I had assist in designing a strong undertaking, and [assistance] to permit me to allocate time and focus to information assortment and evaluation.”
The next is the complete listing of farmers chosen for the 2025 FLT cohort:
- Rollin Baker and Mike Lucas of Farmacea in Munith, Michigan.
- Kay Bell of Ardour Backyard in Waco, Texas.
- Ed and Terri Crowley of Mesta Meadows, LLC in Glenallen, Missouri.
- Jill Martinez of Garcia Street Farm in El Prado, New Mexico.
- John O’Meara of O’Meara Household Farm in New Sweden, Maine.
- Samantha Otto of The Woven Trifecta in Whitehall, Michigan.
- Markisha Parker of Parker Farm in Warren, Ohio.
- Anthony Reyes of Oxbow Farm and Conservation Middle in Carnation, Washington.
- Kristin Swoszowski-Tran of Ledoux Grange, LLC in Mora, New Mexico.
To be taught extra about OFRF’s Farmer-Led Trials program, please go to our program web page for updates and to learn testimonials from the 2024 cohort. Moreover, we encourage curious farmers to take a look at OFRF’s free guidebook, Farmers Information to Conducting On-Farm Analysis, for steerage on structuring your farm experiments so the outcomes are helpful, dependable, and repeatable.
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About Natural Farming Analysis Basis
The Natural Farming Analysis Basis (OFRF), headquartered in Santa Cruz, California, with a distant group primarily based throughout the U.S., works to foster the development and widespread adoption of natural farming techniques. OFRF cultivates natural analysis, schooling, and federal insurance policies that convey extra farmers and acreage into natural manufacturing. For extra details about OFRF, please go to our web site: www.ofrf.org.
Media Contact:
Ashley Dulaney, Communications Director, OFRF
