Meg Hourigan, CFSA Coordinator

CFSA’s Guide to the 2023 Connecticut Legislative Session

Happy New Year! The Connecticut General Assembly opened for the “long session” on January 4. In a long session, legislators negotiate the budget and do not limit what types of bills can be introduced (compared to the short session, which is typically limited to budgetary and financial issues). This year’s session ends June 7. AsContinue reading “CFSA’s Guide to the 2023 Connecticut Legislative Session”

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: 2020 CFSA Summit

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: 2020 Connecticut Food System Alliance Summit Event: May 2, 2020 | 9 am – 4 pm Common Ground High School, New Haven Proposal Deadline: Friday, April 10 Chosen projects will be notified by Friday, April 17 Join us as we reimagine our Food System Network Summit! Present a question, challenge, or newContinue reading “CALL FOR PROPOSALS: 2020 CFSA Summit”

What’s Connecticut’s food system look like?

To change the food system, we have to understand the current status. Data about Connecticut’s food system reveal that access to food is disproportionately lower for communities of color, and that while farms tend to be small, a handful of very large farms make up the majority of agricultural production. Scroll on to learn more,Continue reading “What’s Connecticut’s food system look like?”

CFSA Mini-Grant Spotlight: Grow Windham Know Your Farmer Fair

In March, the Connecticut Food System Alliance awarded Grow Windham with a mini-grant to launch a “Know Your Farmer Fair” in Windham, CT. This was the launch event for the “Windham Grown Network,” a group of local farmers and producers looking to expand market opportunities by connecting with merchants, restaurants, processors, individual consumers, and institutional foodContinue reading “CFSA Mini-Grant Spotlight: Grow Windham Know Your Farmer Fair”

Food Justice and the Labor Movement

Connecticut Food System Leaders and Friends, This Thursday, May 26, from 2 to 7 pm at Connecticut College is the Connecticut Food System Alliance’s Spring Gathering – Food Justice and the Labor Movement. Thank you to those who have already RSVP’ed! If you haven’t already, you can RSVP here, or RSVP on Facebook. Please be sureContinue reading “Food Justice and the Labor Movement”

Food Justice and the Labor Movement: Spring 2016 Gathering

Join us on May 26, from 2 to 7 pm at Connecticut College in New London for our spring gathering. The theme is “Food Justice and the Labor Movement,” intended to educate food justice advocates about the labor movement and to connect labor organizers to food justice advocates. Agenda: 1:30 – 2:00 pm. Sign-in and registration 2:00Continue reading “Food Justice and the Labor Movement: Spring 2016 Gathering”

Gathering Grub

We are excited to partner with two local food businesses in New London County to provide free food for attendees of the Spring 2016 Gathering. We hope you’ll love it too – you can take any leftovers home! Snacks Throughout the day, participants will be able to snack on a variety of healthy foods fromContinue reading “Gathering Grub”

New Haven Farms

While Connecticut’s rate of Type 2 diabetes is below the national average, 8% to 9.3% respectively, this statistic doesn’t tell the whole story. As an averaged sum, this data does not reflect the vast disparities across the state. In Connecticut the diabetes rate for non-Hispanic White residents is only 6%, but for Hispanic andContinue reading “New Haven Farms”

New Haven Summer Meals

Summer vacation is usually an exciting time for children. They get to lose the stresses and responsibilities of homework, tests and getting up early. Unfortunately, for too many children in Connecticut, this also means losing one of the best sources of consistent nutritional meals. The Summer Meals program run by New Haven Public Schools attemptsContinue reading “New Haven Summer Meals”

Values

Values: O JUSTICE: Inclusiveness, diversity, collaboration, shared responsibility, ability for all to choose healthy food, equity and fairness O HEALTH: Healthy people, healthy planet, healthy economy, healthy community. O KNOWLEDGE: Information, awareness, empowerment, self- advocacy, inspiration, transformation. O INTEGRITY: Accountability, openness, transparency, honesty, facts, space for complexity, sustainability, engagement, adaptability. O COURAGE: Fearless leaning into complexity,Continue reading “Values”