This tipsheet, produced by ATTRA NCAT, reviews botanical control options for spider mites, covering essential oils, cilantro, aloe vera, bugleweed, and mimosa extracts. It summarizes research on each botanical's effectiveness, provides practical preparation and application guidance, and advises growers to combine treatments with environmental manipulation — such as increasing humidity and reducing plant stress — to achieve best results.

This webinar, presented by the Organic SWD Management Project, features a panel of researchers discussing organic pest management strategies against the invasive Spotted-wing Drosophila. They explore the use of classical biocontrol agents, review recent research findings, and outline how these methods can be integrated into sustainable pest management programs.

This tipsheet, produced by ATTRA NCAT, reviews botanical control options for stink bugs, covering mint, garlic, lemon verbena, thyme, and oregano. It summarizes research on each botanical's effectiveness as a repellent or contact pesticide against eggs, nymphs, and adults, and provides practical application rates and preparation guidance.

Discover the CIOA project, enhancing organic carrots with better disease resistance, weed competitiveness, and flavor. This webinar covers three years of trials comparing performance in organic vs. conventional systems.

This guide, produced by ATTRA NCAT, addresses internal parasite management in sheep and goats through pasture management strategies. It explains the parasite life cycle and the environmental, animal, and forage factors that influence infection risk, and outlines practical techniques including rotational grazing, stocking rate management, multispecies grazing, bioactive forages, and targeted nutrition to reduce parasite burdens.

Discover how organic farmers control aphids naturally using beneficial insects like hoverflies. This resource highlights intercropping techniques and research by Eric Brennan for efficient biological control in organic lettuce production.

This tipsheet, produced by ATTRA NCAT, reviews botanical control options for whiteflies, covering Santa Maria feverfew, neem, guinea hen weed, and soapberry extracts. It summarizes research on each botanical's effectiveness against eggs, nymphs, and adults, provides preparation guidance, and cautions growers about potential impacts on beneficial predator insects when integrating botanical pesticides into pest management programs.

This webinar dicusses how to safely create compost teas for gardening and agriculture. Discover regulations by the National Organic Program and EPA, and understand their beneficial uses.

This guide, produced by ATTRA NCAT, examines climate-related challenges facing perennial fruit and nut growers, including drought, flooding, frost timing shifts, inadequate chilling hours, and extreme heat. It outlines four key strategies for building resilience — diversification into new cultivars and species, water stewardship, soil building through organic matter improvement, and adoption of appropriate technology and policy.

Presenters share insights from five long-term organic farms, discussing successes, challenges, and strategies for managing biodiversity and biological control habitats to enhance sustainable farming practices.

This research-based guide, produced by ATTRA NCAT, examines the economic sustainability of certified organic farms. Drawing on academic literature and farmer focus groups, it identifies barriers to organic transition and certification, explores profitability patterns, supply chain relationships, risk management strategies, and offers practical recommendations to help farmers overcome challenges and remain economically viable.

Explore this organic-certified winter nursery for corn breeding, designed to meet organic farmers' needs. This resource offers valuable insights for corn breeders and anyone interested in corn breeding or organic production systems.