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The 19th Annual Winter Festival Event at Burr Pond State Park No Child Left Inside® (NCLI) Program in partnership with Fish with CARE and the City of Torrington will be hosting this event. There will be parking on-site at Burr Pond State Park (main parking lot) as well as off-site location parking lots at: Burr Pond Boat Launch Ramp, Burrville Fire Training School and RBC Aircraft Products . There will be 2 shuttles (one is handicapped accessible) circulating between the parking lots/locations between the hours of 9:30 am and 3:00 pm. The shuttles will circulate between Burr Pond State Park on Burr Mountain Road in Torrington; RBC Aircraft Products at 2866 Winsted Road, Torrington; Burrville Fire Training School on Burr Mountain Road in Torrington; and the Burr Pond Boat Launch Ramp at 600 Burr Mountain Road in Torrington. In the event of bad weather, the event will be rescheduled to Sunday February 2, 2025 from 10 am to 3 pm Contact 860-424-3917 kristen.bellantuono@ct.gov

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/

Miller Bridge Community Farm! Cultivating Justice Harvest Day Marigold

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.

AKNEW is a non-profit organization located in Hartford, CT. We provide resources to the underserved population of the Greater Hartford Communities. We are raising funds to help educate the Hartford Communities on the importance of Composting and urban gardening, fishing, and farm animals. We will be partnering with Our New Village who will come and educate the community about Urban Gardening, a local farm who will bring farm animals, and other organizations that will educate the community about fishing and composting.

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!