Real Food CT’s Young Farmer Internship Program: Cultivating Change and Feeding Our Community!

Real Food CT is thrilled to announce the ongoing success of our Young Farmer Internship program, which is now in its fourth season! This initiative has been a catalyst for change, empowering local high school and college students to delve into the world of regenerative agriculture, community gardens, and hunger relief. Our dedicated interns have …

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The Small Farm Model

Who knew you could grow 20K pounds of food on less than an acre? Don’t we need sprawling fields and tractors to do that? Real Food CT got going in 2019 with an idea to prove the concept of the Small Farm Model in our region of Connecticut. The goal was to show that the …

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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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CPTV Documentary “Resourceful” Highlights Real Food

Recorded in the summer of 2020, Christina DeFranco and the recording team from Connecticut Public Television came out to live a day in the life of Real Food Share as our team harvested, donated, and worked at the Newtown Farmers Market. “Resourceful” did an amazing job of highlighting community organizations doing amazing work across the …

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