Farming has been important part of Connecticut’s history, long before it became a state. Native Americans worked the land, cultivating maize, beans, squash, sunflowers and Jerusalem artichokes,” accor.
The nonprofit, based at Stone Acres Farm in Stonington, has gotten grants to do social studies programming, provide training for high school teachers, and more.
An online platform to boost sales at local farms using sustainable growing practices has won a $41,600 planning grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The local farm-sales platform, called Healthy PlanEat, was originally the brainchild of East Lyme, Conn., native Rosemary Ostfeld, who teaches sustainable agriculture at Wesleyan University.