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Today our partners at Morena Farming and Chicks Ahoy Farm partnered together to put up a coop and welcome 9 chickens to the Miller Street Community Farm. Alongside community members, we learned about the basics for caring for the chickens, set up the food and water feeders, laid woodchips in their nesting area, and fed them sunflower seeds. In the coming week, we'll make sure their predator protection is set up to keep them as safe as possible. The chickens in this coop will provide eggs, an important protein source, for the neighbors on Miller/Bridge in Middletown. Check out pics from the day, and if you're interested in learning more about chickens or helping with the care of our birds, please write to diana@katalcenter.org.

Great piece by Katal Center's Taina Manick on food justice, farming and parole. Recently families from Hartford, Middlesex, and New Haven County met in Bloomfield to talk about and plan some action around them. https://ctmirror.org/2024/11/15/cultivating-justice-through-community-and-conversation/

by Mia Taylor Monarch populations are teetering on extinction, their numbers down to 5% of what they were a few decades ago. Here's what to know and the simplest way to help.

EggUcation Series: Cultivating BIPOC Farmers I just supported EggUcation Series: Cultivating BIPOC Farmers, an awesome project on Patronicity. It's a crowdfunding campaign, so they need lots of small contributions from donors, or 'Patrons' like you and me to make it happen.   You can read more about how this works at https://www.patronicity.com/how-it-works   Please visit the project here, read more about it, choose a giving level, and share with others as well! https://www.patronicity.com/project/eggucation_series_cultivating_bipoc_farmers

Join us at Lovie’s Farm for a Farm Action Day on Saturday, August 24th, as we fight to make the “Right to Farm” real! Come by for a farm tour, help feed the animals, bring your kids for an egg hunt, and take ACTION with us! RSVP below & don’t forget to wear closed-toed shoes! Can’t make it? You can still support us by signing this petition!

An exert from: The Quest for Racial Equality Has Always Been Different for Rural Americans "Eighty-three-year-old Corine Woodson is poised to suffer a devastating blow: the loss of the home she shared with her late husband—who died in 2022—for over 60 years. Her land, 40 acres set amid rolling pines outside of Auburn, Ala., was purchased in 1911 and passed down through generations, a rare example of Black land ownership in the Deep South. But in recent years, this once rural property, now parsed out among various family members in a form of ownership known as “tenants in common,” has caught the attention of investors who hope to purchase and develop properties they consider prime real estate. Cleveland Brothers Incorporated bought out Woodson’s relatives, accumulating 49% ownership of the previously Black-owned property. Now, the case is making news as it heads toward the Alabama Supreme Court, with the company declaring that it will suffer “financial harm” if Woodson delays the sale of her share. (A representative of Cleveland Brothers told WTVM that Woodson could stay on the property for a year even if the sale goes through.)" Read more....

https://ctmirror.org/2024/12/20/ct-offshore-wind-solar-projects/