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March 4, 2025
Contact: Diana Martinez – 860-580-9402 – diana@katalcenter.org
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Sunday 3/9: Workshop Series to Bring Together Diverse Mix of Participants, Including BILPOC Farmers, Business Owners, People Impacted by Mass Criminalization, Low-Income Families, Students, & Scholars
Growing Power ‘25 Expects Hundreds from Across Connecticut & Northeast for Workshops on Growing and Compost, Chicken Keeping, Freshwater Fishing, Beekeeping, Community Organizing, and More
Hartford, CT – On Sunday, March 9th, the Cultivating Justice project, in collaboration with Chick Ahoy Farm Inc, is hosting the third annual Growing Power workshop series focused on growing food, skills, and community power. The day-long program is focused on supporting participants in gaining farming and agriculture skills while exploring connections to community organizing, the fight for justice in the criminal legal system and beyond.
More than 300 people from across Connecticut and the Northeast are registered to attend the day-long event, with workshops about growing and composting, chicken keeping, freshwater fishing, beekeeping, community organizing, and much more.
- What: Growing Power
- When: Sunday, March 9th, 10am – 4pm
- Where: The Artists Collective – 1200 Albany Avenue, Hartford, CT 06112
- Cost: The event is free.
- Who: The Cultivating Justice project of the Katal Center for Equity, Health, and Justice, in collaboration with Chicks Ahoy Farm.
For the full list of workshops and the Growing Power schedule, click here. To get live updates about the series, follow Cultivating Justice on social media.
Background on Cultivating Justice: In Connecticut, more than 98% of registered farmers are white. The U.S. Department of Agriculture only allows registered farmers and growers to contribute to the Agricultural Census, which is taken every five years and directly shapes the Food and Farm Bill in Congress. This means the people most vulnerable to food insecurity in Connecticut are not included in the decisions that shape the federal Food and Farm Bill. These are the same communities targeted for mass criminalization and incarceration.
Cultivating Justice is a multi-generational project with leadership representing young people, elders, and those in between. The mission of Cultivating Justice is to nurture Connecticut’s next generation of farmers of color. We are teaching, organizing, and developing leadership among Black, Indigenous, and Latin People of Color (BILPOC) through farming, business development, and civic engagement.
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