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Winter Market

Saturdays
January 7 – March 25
10:00am – 1:00pm
Conte West Hills Middle School – 511 Chapel St.

Wooster Square

Saturdays
April – December
9:00am – 1:00pm
Conte West Hills Middle School – 511 Chapel St.

Edgewood Park

Sundays
June – November
10am – 1pm
Edgewood Park
Corner of Whalley &
West Rock Aves

Q-House

Wednesdays
June – October
3pm – 6pm
Q-House
197 Dixwell Ave

Downtown

Postponed Until
Next Season
Many farms in Connecticut continue to face labor shortages, making it challenging for farmers to staff fields and market stalls.

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8 hours ago

Join us this Saturday at our last Indoor Winter Market of 2023! Tomorrow is our last indoor market at Conte West School from 10am-1pm.

The weekly vendor lineup is available on the Winter Market page on our website.

Starting next week (April 1st) the Wooster market will be held outdoors and open an hour earlier from 9am-1pm. Same address, new hours. ... See MoreSee Less

Join us this Saturday at our last Indoor Winter Market of 2023! Tomorrow is our last indoor market at Conte West School from 10am-1pm.

The weekly vendor lineup is available on the Winter Market page on our website.

Starting next week (April 1st) the Wooster market will be held outdoors and open an hour earlier from 9am-1pm. Same address, new hours.

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Huge congratulations to our friends and long-time market vendors Star Light Gardens! Read more about how David passed the torch to Jen and Joel. “My big thing is that I want this farm to live,” Zemelsky, 74, said. “I started this place 23 years ago, so I’ve got a lot of my soul wrapped up in what is going on."

You can find Star Light Gardens at our last Winter Farmers Market of the season, tomorrow from 10am-1pm at Conte/West Hills Magnet School. More details and the full vendor lineup here: https://cityseed.org/winter-market/ The market moves outside on April 1st!

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Keeping farms alive in Connecticut: Star Light Gardens finds new owners

DURHAM — David Zemelsky sowed the first seeds at Star Light Gardens nearly a quarter century ago, and he was determined his organic vegetable farm i...

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CitySeed is at Conte/West Hills Magnet School.

7 days ago

Join us today for one of our last Indoor Winter Markets! The Indoor Winter Farmers Market will run on Saturdays through March 25. Join us at Conte West School until 1pm! @_sharper_harper_ is here sharpening knives so be sure to bring your dull knives and tools. ... See MoreSee Less

Join us today for one of our last Indoor Winter Markets! The Indoor Winter Farmers Market will run on Saturdays through March 25. Join us at Conte West School until 1pm! @_sharper_harper_ is here sharpening knives so be sure to bring your dull knives and tools.

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3 weeks ago

Calling all farmers, fishers, beekeepers, bakers, chefs, and food vendors! CitySeed is currently seeking vendors for our 2023 farmers market season. Please check out our vendor info and application: https://cityseed.org/vendors/

If you have questions about our guidelines or need help sourcing local ingredients for your products, please contact our farmers market manager Blaise Berglund at blaise@cityseed.org. 🥕🍄🥖🥚🍯🎣👩‍🌾 ... See MoreSee Less

Calling all farmers, fishers, beekeepers, bakers, chefs, and food vendors! CitySeed is currently seeking vendors for our 2023 farmers market season. Please check out our vendor info and application: https://cityseed.org/vendors/

If you have questions about our guidelines or need help sourcing local ingredients for your products, please contact our farmers market manager Blaise Berglund at blaise@cityseed.org. 🥕🍄🥖🥚🍯🎣👩‍🌾

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Passionately Pasta in Wallingford has my vote

3 weeks ago

Our food system needs to be more representative of our communities! Black-owned food businesses authentically honor black culture. The black culinarians and food entrepreneurs in our community make Black history daily. Enjoy this A-Z compiled list of Black-owned food businesses in New Haven that you can support well after Black History Month ends. Your support in doing solidarity work is greatly appreciated! ... See MoreSee Less

Our food system needs to be more representative of our communities! Black-owned food businesses authentically honor black culture. The black culinarians and food entrepreneurs in our community make Black history daily. Enjoy this A-Z compiled list of Black-owned food businesses in New Haven that you can support well after Black History Month ends. Your support in doing solidarity work is greatly appreciated!

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Join us this Saturday at our last Indoor Winter Market of 2023! Tomorrow is our last indoor market at Conte West School from 10am-1pm.

The weekly vendor lineup is available on the Winter Market page on our website.

Starting next week (April 1st) the Wooster market will be held outdoors and open an hour earlier from 9am-1pm. Same address, new hours.

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CitySeed held our annual Food Safety Manager Training and Exam today! (aka ServSafe) The lovely @chefb777 joined us as instructor extraordinaire teaching us everything about safe internal cooking temps, how to SAFELY thaw your food, pest mgmt, HACCP plans & more!! This is one of the first requirements needed to legally sell your food in CT.

Want us to offer the training & exam for FREE in the fall? 🤔 comment below!

Thank you to the @dixwellqhouse for offering this beautiful conference room.

#ServSafeSaturday #foodsafety #businessowners #servsafe #supportsmallbusiness

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Join us today for one of our last Indoor Winter Markets! The Indoor Winter Farmers Market will run on Saturdays through March 25. Join us at Conte West School until 1pm! @_sharper_harper_ is here sharpening knives so be sure to bring your dull knives and tools.

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Calling all farmers, fishers, beekeepers, bakers, chefs, and food vendors! CitySeed is currently seeking vendors for our 2023 farmers market season. Please check out our vendor info and application: https://cityseed.org/vendors/

If you have questions about our guidelines or need help sourcing local ingredients for your products, please contact our farmers market manager Blaise Berglund at blaise@cityseed.org. 🥕🍄🥖🥚🍯🎣👩‍🌾

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Our food system needs to be more representative of our communities! Black-owned food businesses authentically honor black culture. The black culinarians and food entrepreneurs in our community make Black history daily. Enjoy this A-Z compiled list of Black-owned food businesses in New Haven that you can support well after Black History Month ends. Your support in doing solidarity work is greatly appreciated.

#bhm #buyblack #local #newhaven #foodsystem #africandiaspora #supportblackbiz #everyday #caterer #baker #restauranter #entrepreneur

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CitySeed’s mission is to engage the community in growing an equitable, local food system that promotes economic development, community development, and sustainable agriculture. While we primarily carry out this mission on the local level in CT, we have seen the ways in which elected officials at all levels of government can make a tangible impact on New Haven, the communities we serve, and the issues we fight for -- food access, sustainable agriculture, immigration, inclusive economic development, livelihoods for entrepreneurs. This Presidents Day, and this #BlackHistoryMonth, we’re reflecting on how more diverse and inclusive leadership at all levels of government can lead to a more equitable food system.

In 2009, Barack Obama made history and became the first Black President of the United States. In 2021, presidential history was made again when Kamala Harris was sworn in as the first Black, first woman, and first Asian American vice president in US history. These important moments have shifted American history, but they were only made possible by the many Black politicians that came before them. This President’s Day, let’s remember some of the influential African American men and women who paved the way for Obama and Harris.

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Join us tomorrow at the Indoor Winter Market at Conte West Hills School (511 Chapel Street). The market will be open from 10-1pm. Come pick up vibrant fresh produce from local farms like @starlightgardens, hot prepared food, baked goods, meat, honey, and more!

The first picture showcases the variety of produce @starlightgardens brings to the markets! Swipe to see Jenny from Starlight holding a ginormous Chinese cabbage from their winter garden.

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We are so grateful that some of our team was able to have lunch with @leahpenniman and several wonderful folks working in local organizations that do all things food justice related from urban agriculture to food-based economic development.

Leah discussed some of her impactful work and vision for a future of food sovereignty and racial equity and guided the room full of, mostly BIPOC, local leaders in connecting and envisioning how we can collaboratively build a more just food system right here in CT.

Leah is a phenomenal person whose intentional words are always so powerful and inspiring. This felt like like a continuation of our learning from Leah and Soul Fire Farm‘s Undoing Racism in the Food System training our team participated in together in 2021.

If you’re looking for a good #BlackHistoryMonth read, we recommend checking out her critically acclaimed book, Farming While Black, a read that provides a viewpoint that is especially crucial to our work! You can purchase Farming While Black from @binghamsbooks, a Black Owned bookstore literary agency located in New Haven, CT, designed to celebrate social justice, marginalized communities, and Black culture, inspired by the Founder's Great Grandfather, civil rights activist and entrepreneur Russell Bingham.

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Join our team! CitySeed is seeking a detail-oriented, creative, and personable Development Manager to join our team. This role will best suit someone who is highly detailed, enjoys connecting with people, is a strong writer and storyteller, and is inspired by CitySeed’s mission. This position plays a critical role in ensuring that CitySeed’s supporters have a positive experience and feel connected with our organization’s mission. Full full job description link in bio.

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We did it! Thanks to 174 donors, we exceeded our ambitious goal of raising $80,000 in our end-of-year fundraising campaign! These generous donations will support economic opportunity for food entrepreneurs, career development for immigrant and refugee women, and increased access to healthy local food.

We are so grateful to our community of supporters and partners who will help us grow our impact in 2023! Follow along on our social media and newsletter to keep up with the good news and exciting developments. From all of us at CitySeed - Thank You!

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