Connecticut Food System Alliance

02/17/2026

Check out the newly formed CT Food Sovereignty Collective's 2026 legislative agenda! This holistic platform for food, health, economic, and environmental justice unites food access with interconnecting issues such as housing, health care, and environmental rights.

Connecticut Food System Alliance has helped found this new initiative to support organizing throughout the state to grow regenerative, interdependent, democratic food systems centering Black, Brown, and Indigenous foodways and food work. This policy agenda shows a path to economic, health, and environmental justice through many interconnected issues. There are two policy priorities:
- Establishing a permanent Connecticut Food Fund to invest in universal school meals, SNAP enhancements, and other food security measures
- Releasing $10 million in bonded funds that were already allocated in 2022 to support food pantries and food distribution

The other sections of the policy agenda including supportive agricultural and environmental policies, plus interconnected policies for health care, housing, and justice reform.

Read the full policy agenda here and sign on to the agenda using the link in comments!

CONNECTICUT FOOD SOVEREIGNTY COLLECTIVE POLICY AGENDA The Connecticut Food Sovereignty Collective is dedicated to building power and fostering relationships to grow regenerative, interdependent, liberated food systems that nourish people and land. Our policy recommendations center food access, w...

02/06/2026

Get Counted in the Local Food Count!

The Local Food Count is live across New England! Organizations in MA, CT, RI, NH, ME, and VT are invited to share data on local food purchasing. This effort helps build a stronger, more resilient regional food system.

👉 Get counted now: https://web.cvent.com/survey/38bfc9f2-f1e0-4327-9533-920c22a5b7ba/welcome



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02/06/2026

The Connecticut legislative session is under way - track bills with a food system impact with CFSA!

This week's update includes the Governor's proposed free breakfast and free lunch for reduced-price eligible students, multiple proposals to eliminate the 1% restaurant meals surtax, public option for health care, agricultural tax credits, and more.

The Connecticut General Assembly’s “short session” opens on February 4 and concludes on May 6. In a “short session”, the legislature typically only makes adjustments t…

02/05/2026

Exactly one week from today we will be at the Capitol with Office of Governor Ned Lamont, ALICE families, 211 contact center specialists and community partners celebrating the 50th Anniversary of 211. Join us? https://www.ctunitedway.org/211-day-at-the-capitol/

01/30/2026

We're anticipating a busy little legislative session starting February 4! Keep track of bills impacting the food system with the CFSA bill tracker! Make sure you're signed up for our listserv, where we'll post weekly updates on bills related to food access, land policy, labor, health, and more. Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd3QQL4dAu-HJOeX1_i_qAft3ebvlIxUb7xmIi8swuXMIkp7g/viewform?usp=header

01/21/2026

Attention: CT grocers, restaurants, food retailers, college dining services, and more! Do you sell or serve food produced in New England (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont)? Make sure your hard work strengthening the regional food system is counted!

Get Counted in the 2025 Local Food Count!

New England Feeding New England is now collecting responses to estimate how much New England produced food is sold here.

Tag your favorite CT grocer, restaurant, or food business and ask them to get counted!

Learn more here: https://ctfoodsystemalliance.com/2026/01/21/2025localfoodcount/

01/21/2026

We spoke to For the People about the New England 2025 Local Food Count - check out the interview below and get counted here: https://bit.ly/2025LocalFoodCount

For the People is proud to join the Central Connecticut Coast YMCA in celebrating 175 years of community building in 2026, as we welcome their current executive to discuss the organization's past and where it's headed. Tune in and find out why the Y is far more than a gym - it...

12/19/2025

10/22/2025

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Join us for Our Food Our Future on November 15th, 10-3pm in Bridgeport!

Join the CT Food Sovereignty Collective in building collective power for regenerative, democratic, interdependent food systems in Bridgeport and throughout the state!

What to look forward to:

Workshops on Black, Brown, & Indigenous land loss in CT; the Planting Seeds food justice internship program; community organizing; and indigenous food of southern New England

A panel on what is food sovereignty, including examples from Bridgeport and across the state

A healing space w/ Bridgette Bryan

Coffee, tea and pastries from Sound Coffee and lunch from Khemis Cuisine!

Spanish interpretation and childcare provided

Registration open until Oct 30th, link in bio - see you there! less

04/19/2025

At the launch of the Connecticut Food Sovereignty Collective on Saturday, April 12 at in Bridgeport, we gathered to share knowledge, dreams of a just and equitable food system, and delicious food from and coffee from !

We learned about indigenous food history from - who also shared some great reading recommendations and efforts for food sovereignty and early learning center gardens in Bridgeport from youth food advocate Zane. offered an introductory Know Your Rights workshop so community food advocates know how to support and protect immigrants in our spaces and neighborhoods.

With this grounding, we all talked about what food sovereignty means to us - and how we want to see it embodied and thriving in Connecticut. Thank you to everyone who participated for sharing your energy, hope, and efforts with us on this rainy Saturday! As a gesture of reciprocity, we hope you will consider making a gift to the Tribe to support Clan Mother Shoran Waupatukuay Piper and Drummers and Dancers to participate in two days of ceremony as thanks for learning and working together on their land.

Connecticut Food System Alliance has been working with this group since fall 2023 to support the launch of this new collective which aims to build power for regenerative, democratic, interdependent food systems that celebrate black, brown, and indigenous food sovereignty. The Connecticut Food Sovereignty Collective will connect community food advocacy and statewide movements for justice in areas connected to food because food security does not exist without housing justice, education justice, health justice, migrant justice, or racial and economic justice. We invite you to join this new effort - stay tuned for the next steps, meeting invite, and save the date for our next gathering September 20!

For all links and references included in this post please check out the link in our bio - https://linktr.ee/ctfoodsystem

03/21/2025

🌱 What's growing on in the CFSA listserv? 🍇 Current onvine offerings include:
📜 CT food system bills and action alerts to grow a just, sustainable future
📅 Community-sourced updates and events
📰 Food and farm news and resources rooted in truth

The CFSA listserv is a group email list tended by the Connecticut Food System Alliance - members receive updates from each other and from CFSA to their inbox. In addition to the CFSA offerings of weekly legislative updates and news, Connecticut food system allies post action alerts, community events, jobs and other resources about food and agriculture in the state.

Everybody who eats in Connecticut has a stake in our food system - join our listserv to help shape just, sustainable food systems transformation! Check the link in our bio for more info.