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BRIDGEPORT — A proposal to expand the city's inventory of community gardens died on the vine Tuesday as the Board of Park Commissioners denied a request to add gardens in two city parks. via Bid for two Bridgeport community gardens wilts – Connecticut Post. SEYMOUR — Three generations of the Bomba family on Monday welcomed Gov. M. Jodi Rell to their farm, where she announced that the state Bond Commission is expected to approve $5 million toward the state’s ongoing efforts to preserve farmland. via Seymour farm joins preservation list (video) – The New Haven Register. If we want to protect what’s left of our open space, we need to preserve our remaining farms. One way is to help farmers make a living. That is why the legislature should pass the “pickle bill.” This proposed law would let farmers sell pickled fruits and vegetables — pickles, salsa, relish — at farm stands and farmers markets, as they can now do with homemade jellies and jams. via ‘Pickle Bill’ Would Help Farmers At Markets – Courant.com. The leader of a New London County farm group is supporting fines on people who misuse outdoor wood-burning furnaces after a lengthy hearing Monday in Hartford. Wayne Budney, president of the New London County Farm Bureau, said financial penalties are necessary to discourage trash burning and other misuse of the furnaces. via Area farm leader supports fines on outdoor furnaces – Norwich Bulletin. John Holbrook of Holbrook Farm in Bethel will be at the Mark Twain Library on Sunday, March 14, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. to give tips on how to get the most from your yard. A seasoned 15-year Connecticut farmer, Mr. Holbrook has developed methods of companion planting, raised beds and the use of beneficial insects to stay organic. He will cover such topics as composting, organic gardening, raising chicks, and will even identify edible delights already growing in your own backyard. via At the library: Talk focuses on living off the land | Redding Pilot. Gov. M. Jodi Rell has announced that $5 million, which will allow the state to add hundreds of acres of working farmland to ongoing preservation efforts, is expected to be approved when the state Bond Commission meets March 16. Today, she will be at the 62-acre Bomba Farm, a former dairy operation, in Seymour where owners are in the process of selling its development rights to the state for $865,000 or $13,956 an acre. via State funding will help preserve more farmland – Connecticut Postings. WETHERSFIELD — – The owners of Wilkus Farm have agreed to clean up contamination at the property before the town buys it for open space. The original deal, negotiated by the Trust for Public Land with the three owners, called for the town to buy the 87-acre property for $3.5 million. That deal was postponed in December while the extent of the environmental contamination was assessed. SHELTON — For more than four decades, Barbara Murzin has lived on Longview Road next to what was once the Klapik Farm. Several years ago when the city purchased that property Murzin thought it would remain open space forever, but now city officials want to turn a portion of it into a community garden and build a road right by her home. via Seeds of discontent sown over Shelton community garden plan – Connecticut Post. When you drink a glass of organic milk, how do you think it was made? You may picture cows grazing in pasture. You may think the cows never had antibiotics. You may expect a guarantee that they haven't eaten genetically modified feed. These are some of the perceptions that prompt shoppers to buy organic products, but the truth is more complicated. via Farmers wrangle over organic dairy standards – Food and Recipes – fresnobee.com. There are still some tickets left for this weekend’s CT NOFA Annual Conference, 8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Saturday, March 6, 2010, at Manchester Community College in Manchester, CT. Celebrate local organic farming, gardening, landscaping and sustainable lifestyles. This annual conference features more than 30 workshops, a vendor and exhibit area, and keynote speaker Michael Shuman, author of “The Small-Mart Revolution” and a local economy specialist. There will be a potluck lunch (the best lunch you have all year), children’s program, and a series of hands-on cooking demonstrations. Help support CT Environmental Headlines and tell them you read about it here first! Thanks!Continue reading Some tickets left for CT NOFA 28th Annual Conference today — see you there! Superintendent Scott Schoonmaker said the school district is joining with the Agricultural Commission to build a greenhouse behind the high school and the adjacent intermediate school. Organizers also want to find farmers to mentor students and expose them to the town’s agricultural history. via No. Branford High plans farm project – The New Haven Register. The University of Connecticut is studying ways to help dairy farmers diversify and preserve open space while boosting grape-growing to supply Connecticut’s wineries. Agriculture and resource economics professor Boris Bravo-Ureta (BRAH-voh You-RAY-teh) is leading the study. He says he wants to determine if grape production in Connecticut can meet the demand created by wineries. via Cows to chardonnay: Can Conn. dairy farms change? : Townhall.com. March 6, Manchester Community College, 161 Hillstown Road, Manchester, ctnofa.org Paul Trubey of Lebanon’s Beltane Farm isn’t concerned that the locavore movement is bringing more people into the cheese-making business. “It hasn’t impacted my business,” he says. “And it’s kind of nice when someone from the northernmost part of the state comes to get my cheese and I can tell them there’s [a cheese maker] that’s more accessible.” Community Supported Agriculture programs enable farmers to generate revenue in the winter, enabling them to buy fertilizer, equipment, livestock, seeds and other supplies. via Farming by community: Local farms using a year-round, community-based model – The Register Citizen. BRIDGEPORT — They marched into City Council chambers, long-handled shovels and pitchfork in hand, a band of determined gardeners. Robert Halstead, president of the Bridgeport Community Land Trust, cultivated the idea of shovels to illustrate the displeasure of community gardens supporters who wonder why their programs didn’t get any money in the latest federal Community Development Block Grant allocations. via City gardeners tell Council they’re ’shovel ready’ – Connecticut Post. Students who serve themselves a horseradish-crusted wild salmon sandwich at lunch in a residential college dining hall on Friday may not realize just how “wild” the dish is. A single delivery of 30,000 pounds of sustainably fished salmon from an Alaskan fishery back in the fall has provided all the salmon served in dining halls since then. via Staying sustainable by buying in bulk | Yale Daily News. A great rundown of gardening events from The Hartford Courant. via Edible Gardening, New Perennials, Bulbs For Color, Organic Conference – Courant.com. People who are hungry to learn more about the local and sustainable food movement may want to check out a screening of the 2009 documentary “Fresh” Saturday afternoon at Audubon Greenwich. The snow date is Sunday. via ‘Fresh’ screened in Greenwich – NewsTimes. As incongruous as it might seem, with snow shovels still the primary outdoor tool, the dead of winter is the perfect time to talk about that dead-of-summer phenomenon known as the CSA. CSA stands for community supported agriculture — a farming model in which consumers buy shares in return for weekly allotments of food during the growing season. Continue reading Sign-Up Time Is Now For Joining Local Farm Cooperatives – Courant.com |
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