What is organic land care?
While there are federal regulations that define standards for organic farming, there are no such standards for organic land care. The CT-Mass NOFA Organic Land Care Committee has filled this void by taking the same stringent standards that govern organic food production and applying them to the larger landscape. The result is the Standards for Organic Land Care: Practices for Design and Maintenance of Ecological Landscapes, which were first developed in 2001 and are now in their third edition. The standards cover all aspects of land carefrom site analysis and soil amendments to weeds, mulches, and pest management.
