Associations & Organizations

Certified Naturally Grown
Website: http://www.naturallygrown.org/

Thanks for visiting Certified Naturally Grown, a non-profit alternative certification program tailored for small-scale, direct-market organic farmers.

Nearly 500 farmers from 47 states are enrolled to use the Certified Naturally Grown label.

When USDA's Organic program was implemented in 2002, organic farms earning more than $5,000 per year were forced to make a choice that for many was difficult: either pay high certification fees and complete mounds of paperwork to become Certified Organic, or else give up using the word "organic" to describe their produce and/or livestock.

Believing that neither choice was very attractive, some farmers created Certified Naturally Grown to provide an alternative way to assure their customers that they observed strict organic growing practices. CNG strives to strengthen the organic movement by preserving high organic standards and removing financial barriers that tend to exclude smaller farms that sell locally and directly to their customers.

Pride of New York
Website: http://www.prideofny.com/

When you bite into a crunchy New York State apple or enjoy a glass of New York State wine, you can almost taste the pride. New York growers and food manufacturers are proud to provide a rich and diverse array of quality products such as locally grown produce, syrups and sauces, cheese, honey, meats, pasta and baked goods – fresh and processed products that never go out of season.

Honey Bee Lives Chris Harp
Website: http://www.honeybeelives.org/
Honeybees are amazing, gentle creatures. They live in colonies which function as a single organism, each Honeybee working for the good of the whole. They nurture the beauty and fecundity of the earth with their gift of pollination, and through that pollination mankind gains strength, and nature diversity. Honeybees are also in dangerous decline, and we all need to take notice.