Dancing daffodils: Higganum is home to CT s only pick-your-own daffodil farm
Andrea Valluzzo
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Drive, bike or walk to Higganum before the daffodils are gone.Winter Caplanson / Contributed photo
Jennifer and John Halfinger have shared in a family tradition of planting daffodil bulbs around their home for the last 22 years.
Now, the longtime farmers who have grown everything from pumpkins to strawberries and flowers and greenhouse plants are hoping to start a new springtime tradition, one that will bring people from far and wide to their Higganum farm.
In 2017, the couple bought the former Winmar Farm, a 12-acre property on Jacoby Road that’s been long dormant and quite overgrown, just a few miles down the road from their main operation, Halfinger Farms on Candlewood Hill Road. After spending two years clearing the land, they planted 8,000 daffodil bulbs in fall 2019, opening to the public the following spring.
Greenwich s Moon features a menu packed with Japanese, Chinese and Thai flavors
James Gribbon
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Moon in Greenwich offers a menu featuring flavors from Japanese, Chinese and Thai culture with an American twist.Winter Caplanson / Contributed photo
Greenwich’s Moon opened just as 2020 closed its eyes and woke as a new year. The menu nods to American dishes Long Island duck, Colorado lamb, beef from Idaho Wagyu pioneers Snake River Farms but the reason we’re lured in is sushi. Within a few months of opening, Moon has made waves in the dining community like its namesake moves the tides. We had to bring you a look.
The menu at Suffield s Broad Brook Brewery is as enticing as the beer
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Roasted cauliflower from Broad Brook Brewing.Winter Caplanson / Contributed photo
With wood-fired pizzas, burgers made with local grass-fed beef, and cheese and charcuterie boards, Broad Brook Brewing is becoming a northern Connecticut destination for its food just as much as its beer.
But the brewery’s June 2020 opening, more than four years in the making, was preceded by a roller coaster of events. In 2016, Broad Brook’s owners, Eric Mance and Tom Rossing, announced a move across the Connecticut River, leaving their original East Windsor location to construct a new building just north of Bradley International Airport. Construction problems caused extended delays, putting the building far behind schedule and as they finally prepared to open in March last year, the pandemic hit, shuttering state taprooms for months.
Missing the brewery? Check out six breweries that deliver in CT
Erik Ofgang
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Delivers to much of Fairfield, New London, New Haven and Hartford counties; out-of-area deliveries can be arranged • Minimum order: $50
Founded in 2014, OEC is known across the state and even nationally for its intense, complex and wonderfully tart sour beers and other barrel-aged and naturally fermented brews. However, in recent years the brewery has also produced non-sour “clean” beers including a pilsner, lager and several IPAs. Owner Ben Neidhart recommends first-time customers try the Coolship Lager, a crisp, clean and approachable beer, but adds, “Since we have a big assortment of offerings, customers should feel free to email us and we can give them specific recommendations.” Fans of more unusual beers may want to try sour offerings like Tempus or Exilis, or the wonderfully offbeat Kalvis Jupiter, which is made
Wander along the pink granite at the Stony Creek Quarry Preserve
Peter Marteka
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Trails wind through a hemlock forest and past large boulders.Peter Marteka / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
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The trails pass by piles of huge quarry tailings with drill holes visible in the rocks.Peter Marteka / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
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The Statue of Liberty famously proclaims, “Give me your tired, your poor,” and so on. Less famously, it’s builders asked quarries along the Connecticut shoreline to give them their pink granite rock 450 tons of it for Lady Liberty to stand on.
The pink granite, concentrated in a vein running through Branford and Guilford, has been making its way around the Northeast and points beyond since the first quarry was opened in Branford’s eastern side in 1858. The stone has been used at Columbia University, the foundation of the Brooklyn Bridge, Grand Central Station, Boston’s South Terminal Station, Ph