Real Food CT Kicks Off 2024 Growing and Giving Season

Greetings! We hope everyone is off to a great start in 2024. It’s incredible to even write this, but we are kicking off our sixth season connecting regional hunger relief organizations with locally grown, fresh produce. With an estimated 1 out of 10 CT residents struggling with hunger (CT Foodshare), there are far too many …

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JOB OPENING: Operations Director, Real Food CT

Real Food CT is seeking an experienced, organized and passionate local food system administrator to manage the coordination and execution of their primary programs.  RFCT is a farm and food system organization that operates two small farms in Newtown, CT, runs a Young Farmer Internship Program and coordinates a farm surplus pickup and delivery program.  …

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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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