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Vote for Us!

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Thanks to several of our customers, we have been entered in the AMERICA’S FAVORITE FARMERS MARKET CONTEST sponsored by the American Farmland Trust. We are always getting great feedback when people come in to shop at the farm stand, and now you have the chance to let a wider audience know why you think Urban Oaks is so special.

To cast a vote, please visit the contest website.

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Urban Oaks Gets Blogged

Monday, April 20th, 2009

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Check out Timelesscool for some more photos.

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Fast Food/Slow Food Panel at C.C.S.U.

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Fast Food/Slow Food Panel: Are We Ready To Pay The Bill?

Wed. April 22, EARTH DAY, 2:15 - 3:15pm

Bill Duesing, Director of Northeast Organic Farming Association of Connecticut
Ingrid Jon, District Manager of CCSU’s Sodexho Food Services

Mike Kandefer, General Manager of New Britain’s Urban Oaks Organic Farm

Jane Slupecki, Agricultural Marketing & Inspection Rep for CT Dept of Agriculture.

Panel moderator: David Fearon, CCSU Professor in Organization and Management.

After presentations, the panel and audience will discuss/debate.

Following CCSU Dining Service’s trayless lunch, the panel will take place in CCSU Art Galleries, Maloney Hall, 2nd floor, where the art exhibition SUSTAINABLE? is on view March 19- April 23.

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Tomato To-mah-to!

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Save the date for our most popular annual event!

The largest heirloom tasting in the nation (by number of tomatoes). We had 116 varieties in 2008!

SLOW FOOD CONNECTICUT

Tomato To-mah-to Heirloom Tasting Feast

Sunday, August 23rd

2:00 - 4:00 pm

Upper Forty Farm, Cromwell

Delicious details to follow (in July or so)

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Mike and Assistant

Monday, March 16th, 2009

Mike works on the organic farm plan with Naya.

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FARM RALLY AT THE STATE CAPITOL

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

‘SPEAK UP FOR AGRICULTURE!’

March 18th, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.

Invitation to all friends of agriculture, including farmers, growers, gardeners, farmers’ market managers, chefs, agriculture land trusts, CSA members, students, agriculture experts, and consumers. The event is an opportunity to remind state leaders that we cannot afford to cut funding for farmland protection, ignore the financial plight of dairy farmers, eliminate farm business grants, or repeal tax exemptions on seeds and farm equipment.

Join us in Hartford to “Speak Up for Agriculture!” - or Watch it Disappear!

Help remind state leaders that NO FARMS = NO FOOD

Sponsored by:

CitySeed, CT Farm Bureau, CT NOFA, Working Lands Alliance, American Farmland Trust, Very Alive, Canaan Valley Agriculture Coop, and Connecticut Farmland Trust

After the Rally participants are welcome to attend an indoor press conference at 10:30 to to help demonstrate wide support for a critical source of agriculture funding: The Community Invesment Act.

You are also invited to join one of the small grassroots teams from your county to meet legislators during pre-scheduled face-to-face appointments between 11:00 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Join one of the grassroots teams and participate in face-to-face meetings with legislators! If interested, send your name and email to Amanda Freund: amandaf@cfba.org

Throughout the morning you can visit with dozens of agriculture organizations that will have displays in the Hall of Flags for the annual ‘Ag Day at the Capitol’.

JOIN US AND HELP KEEP AGRICULTURE IN CONNECTICUT!

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Parking at the Capitol - 1) Come early in order to use the Legislative Office Building Parking Lot - Parking is available on the first floor of the Legislative Office Garage. If the first floor is full, check to see if there is a police officer directing cars to the roof parking in the lower basement level of the garage around the back of the building. 2) There is a paid public parking garage in the Connecticut Education Association (CEA) Building on Oak Street. Go south (NOT the driveway which goes west onto Broad Street) out of the Legislative Office Building driveway, turn left onto Capitol Avenue, then take the first right onto Oak Street. The first building on the right across from the side of the State Library, is the CEA Building. Pull into the garage driveway on the far side of the building. 3) There is often meter parking available on that first block of Oak Street, or go to the end of the block and take a left on Russ Street for more meter parking.

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Our Arugula Makes it Big

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

Our friend Bill Taibe was a guest on the Martha Stewart Show yesterday. You can watch the video of Bill making his recipe for striped sea bass with tomato marmalade here.

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Sweet Sage Bakery

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

This Friday, March 3rd marks the return to Urban Oaks of Sweet Sage Bakery. Kathy will be delivering her artisan breads, muffins, brownies, scones and more. Oh frabjous day!

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