Connecticut's
Organic Farms & Food
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Looking for Organic Land Professionals?
Want to learn more about our programs?
Visit organiclandcare.net for more information.
What is a Community Farm?
- A not-for-profit, publicly accessible farm that conducts educational programming for the public.
- A center providing opportunities for meaningful work, learning, service and self-development.
- A local source of healthful produce, and a demonstration site for local food systems
How can community farms serve farmland conservation purposes?
- Community farms represent a financially viable approach for managing open space.
- A community farm provides partners including land trusts and municipal conservation commissions with valuable platforms to reach their constituencies and promote active public engagement with preserved land.
Resources
Farm Based Education in Connecticut - prepared by Dr. Kimberly Stoner, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven.
Connecticut Community Farm Network
Farm-Based Education Association
CT NOFA's Resources for Farmers webpage
Connecticut's Community Farms Listings
Bolton Heritage Farm - Bolton
860 649-8066 X111
Friends of Boulder Knoll, Inc. - Cheshire
203-439-7003 or Kim Stoner 203-974-8480
info@friendsofboulderknoll.com
Fairfield Organic Teaching Farm - Fairfield
The Dudley Farm - Guilford
203-457-0770
info@dudleyfarm.com
Grow Hartford C.S.A. - Hartford
860-296-9325
Aiki Farms - Ledyard
860-536-6407
Bauer Park - Madison
Madison Beach and Recreation Department
203-245-5623
Urban Oaks Organic Farm - New Britain
Mike Kandefer
860-223-6200
urbanoaks@earthlink.net
Diabetes Prevention Program & Chabaso Bakery Community Farm - New Haven
r.kline@fhchc.org
203-915-1892
New Haven Ecology Project &
Common Ground High School - New Haven
203-389-4333
Yale Farm/Yale Sustainable Food Project - New Haven
F.R.E.S.H. New London - New London
860-444-8050 x14
freshnewlondon@hotmail.com
Sullivan Farm/New Milford Youth Agency - New Milford
860-354-0047
Community Farm of Simsbury, Inc. - Simsbury
Down to Earth CSA - Staffordville
Located at the Bob White Farm
860-684-2124
info@getdowntoearth.org
Terra Firma Farm - Stonington
860-535-8171
info@terrafirmafarm.org
Friends of the Farm at Hilltop, Inc. - Suffield
860-668-4606
info@fofah.com
Voluntown Peace Trust - Voluntown
860-376-9970
Voluntownpeacetrust@gmail.com
Holcomb Farm CSA - West Granby
860-653-5554
sam@holcombfarmcsa.org
Wakeman Farm - Westport
203-227-5320
New Pond Farm - West Redding
203-938-2117
info@NewPondFarm.org
Ambler Farm - Wilton
Friends of Ambler Farm
info-ambler@amblerfarm.org
Massaro Community Farm Inc. - Woodbridge
president@massarofarm.org
Shepherd Farm - Woodbridge
203-393-0296
shepherddairy@aol.com
If you would like your Community farm listed here, or have pictures or updates, contact the office:
203-888-5146 or ctnofa@ctnofa.org
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CT NOFA
PO Box 164 • Stevenson, CT 06491
phone: (203) 888-5146 • fax: (203) 888-9280