Cook and Farmer Advisors

Elizabeth Henderson

organic producer advisor Elizabeth Henderson has been producing organically grown vegetables for the fresh market for over 30 years. She is a founding member of the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) in Massachusetts and has been on the Board of Directors of NOFA-NY since 1989. She chairs the Agricultural and Farmland Protection Board in Wayne County, and helped organize the Domestic Fair Trade Association. Her writings on organic agriculture appear in The Natural Farmer and the NOFA-NY Food, Farms and Folks. She is one of the authors of The Real Dirt: Farmers Tell about Organic and Low-Input Practices in the Northeast and lead author of Sharing the Harvest: A Citizen’s Guide to Community Supported Agriculture. Her Peacework Organic Farm supplies vegetables to the 300-member Genesee Valley Organic Community Supported Agriculture Project, in its twenty-third year in 2011.