2023 Grow Your Own – Virtual Home Gardening Series!

Real Food CT Master Gardeners Sean Fitzpatrick and Nancy Zychek are returning this season to take you through all the steps for a successful home garden. To make things more accessible, we will be hosting a virtual (Zoom) series every other Tuesday evening up until Memorial Day. We’ll be recording and sharing our notes from …

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Executive Director Sean Fitzpatrick on the iEat Green Podcast with Bhavani Jaroff

Bhavani is the founder of iEat Green, a grassroots platform providing all the goods on a healthy lifestyle. She’s got a stockpile of vegan recipes and weekly podcast interviews with influencers across the organic spectrum. It’s clear she loves to spread the joy of seasonal, simple, home-cooked food to clients, families, schools, and communities. In …

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Food System and Food Security

Our Food System is everything involved in production, processing, distribution, consumption to waste.  From farm to table!  Our current production system has been very successful but, with consequences.  We have never produced more food worldwide, but we are dealing with unprecedented numbers of Malnutrition, Obesity, Chronic hunger, and Chronic disease. The mono-crop production and processing …

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Preparing Healthy Food

Inflammation and Chronic Disease: With nearly 50% of Americans suffering from at least one chronic disease (heart disease, diabetes, obesity, cancer) it’s important to view how what you put in your body affects your health. The American standard diet of processed foods includes by-products of corn, wheat and soy because it is cheap for the manufacturers, not healthy …

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Buying Local Food

Create demand to create excess! This is key to how we change the game on a community level. Driving the demand up for local food will create more opportunities across the board, especially for those in need. It is important to know where your food comes from, how it is grown, and how long since …

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Growing Food At Home

Fresh, Fresh, Fresh! This is what “organic” used to be! Being able to harvest food directly from your yard, deck, windowsill, or community garden means you are getting the healthiest and best-tasting food you can find. No travel time, no chemicals, and no plastic storage. Just freshness! When you plant your own food, you know …

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Real Food Nutrition

Real Food is single ingredient, zero or minimally processed, and as close to nature as possible. The buzz phrases to look for are organically grown, pasture-raised, wild-caught, grass-fed, and locally grown. Put simply, real food is food as it’s found in nature. Only 9% of Americans meet the dietary guidelines for daily veggies and only …

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Regenerative Agriculture

Regenerative agriculture is definitely a buzzword in the industry right now. When we’re talking about regenerative agriculture we’re talking about a sustainable food production system that not only produces nutrient-dense food but can also contribute to reversing the effects of global warming. About 10% of greenhouse gasses come from a combination of carbon emissions that …

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