Category Archives: Non-Profit – Community Organization

On Tuesday, September 22, the Connecticut Food System Alliance (CFSA) held the third session of this year’s virtual summit, Designing Resilience for Food and Farming in Connecticut: A Virtual Series to Collectively Shape the Future of Growing & Eating in Our State. This session, Funding & Policy: Building Long-Term, Systemic Solutions, focused on philanthropic givingContinue reading “Funding & Policy: Building Long-Term, Systemic Solutions”

On Thursday, September 17, the Connecticut Food System Alliance (CFSA) held the second session of this year’s virtual summit, Designing Resilience for Food and Farming in Connecticut: A Virtual Series to Collectively Shape the Future of Growing & Eating in Our State. This session, Assets & Gaps: What Do We Have and What Do WeContinue reading “Assets and Gaps: What Do We Have and What Do We Need for a Better Food System?”

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”

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”

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?”

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”

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”

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”

  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”