On Wednesday, September 9, the Connecticut Food System Alliance (CFSA) kicked off a series of virtual sessions, Designing Resilience for Food and Farming in Connecticut: A Virtual Series to Collectively Shape the Future of Growing & Eating in Our State. This first session, Successful Food Supply Chain Adaptations & Sustainability, focused on the adaptations madeContinue reading “Successful Food Supply Chain Adaptations & Sustainability”
Category Archives: Non-Profit – Community Organization
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”
