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• Export Assistance

• Connecticut Grown Program

• Connecticut Grown Price Cards

• Using the Connecticut Grown Logo

• Connecticut Grown Store

• Grant Opportunities

• Agriculture Directional Signage

• Farm to School

• Food System Capacity Building Grant

  This grant supports initiatives that strengthen the overall capacity of the state's food system, including production, processing, distribution, and access to local products.

• Farm Transition Grant (FTG)

  The Farm Transition Grant Program (FTG) (C.G.S. Sec. 22-26k) is a competitive matching grant program for Connecticut farmers and agricultural cooperatives to support the diversification of existing farm operations, transitioning to value-added agricultural production and sales, and other venues in which a majority of products sold are grown in the state.

• Transition Grant in Action

• The Birch Mill Farm Partnership Promotes No-Till

  In 2022, the Birch Mill Farm Partnership collaborated with the Berkshire Agricultural Ventures, The Northwest Connecticut Conservation District, Connecticut Resource Conservation and Development, and the Connecticut Natural Resources Conservation Service State Agronomist to propose a project that would address the need for custom no-till equipment operation for the region’s farmers.

• Cloverleigh Farm Constructs Propagation Greenhouse

• Pleasant View Farms Expands Red Angus Beef Capacity

  Pleasant View Farms Inc has been family owned and operated in Somers, Connecticut since 1918. The farm is currently run by brothers Jacob and Louis Lipton, the fourth generation. After developing a niche market for non-GMO grains as a CT Grown value-added product, PVF currently farms nearly 1,200 acres to grow sufficient hay, corn, and grains to meet the feed and hay needs of small and large livestock farmers throughout New England.

• Desantis Farm Promotes Pig and Poultry Production

  Desantis Farm of Watertown was established by Mike Desantis in 2012. Mike founded the farm with little to no equipment--just some pigs and a love of farming. By 2019, Mike and his wife, Joann, and three daughters, raised over 100 pigs a year, meat birds and turkeys, sold eggs, grew ten acres of produce, 5,000 bales of hay, and over 40 acres of corn for the pigs and poultry.