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Official Launch: Online Farmers Market ROCKS Connecticut!

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What?

Shared Harvest CT is a website that focuses on locally produced foods in a buy/sell/trade/barter/donate platform!  Shared Harvest CT will allow consumers to find locally produced food in another (NON-farm market) venue, provide producers with a separate sales venue, and allow for the donation of food to those in need.  Shared Harvest CT is a state-wide food distribution system allowing farmers, producers, and consumers to connect directly over the internet - in ONE interactive space and platform. Shared Harvest CT is an online farmer's market and food-bank rolled into one.  Food that might potentially go to waste can also be listed for donation to participating charities and food banks.

Shared Harvest CT works like an INSTANT ONLINE SELLING classified ad section and is available for free to all producers, farmers, and consumers.  

Watch our Tutorials to Learn How to Use Shared Harvest Connecticut if you are a:

• CONSUMER
• PRODUCER
• NONPROFIT
• Really, REALLY smart ADVERTISER

Go Shopping  . . . . Go Selling NOW!

Who?

Emily Brooks is the revolutionary new face of the local food and sustainable agriculture movements.  Founder of Edibles Advocate Alliance, Emily nurtures social entrepreneurs who support local agriculture, sustainable farming, and sustainable food systems, and passionately believes in changing the social norm towards agricultural sustainability and development through education and coalition building. 

She is the author of FARMER & FEAST Connecticut, the creator of Shared Harvest CT, and is a regular "local food & sustainability expert" on the Colin McEnroe Show.

Emily Brooks specializes in Entrepreneurial Training, Workplace & Community Sustainability Programming, and Corporate Sustainability & Environmental Education.  She is a certified partner of NxLevel and HubSpot, and is a consultant for Coleman Research Group, Gerson Lehrman Group, and Guidepoint Global Advisors. 

Seeking a Connecticut SUPER HERO. Is that you?

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Analiese Paik of the Fairfield Green Food Guide and Emily Brooks of Edibles Advocate Alliance are SEEKING A HERO! 

Not just any hero, A SUPER HERO!

In Connecticut, the time has come.  We need an Agricultural Angel Investment Network or an Agriculture Exchange.  We need to enhance CT's food security, food safety and food access; improve nutrition and health; promote cultural, ecological and economic diversity; and accelerate the transition from an economy based on extraction or outsourcing, to an economy based on the preservation and restoration of our agricultural sector.

We envision an agriculture investment network where:

• All potential investment projects become one family. Where individuals and businesses are nurtured from the moment they walk in the door and beyond into their successful lives.
• An investment system where each potential project learns from CT experts on the Advisory Team as they make their journey towards final application for funding: Entrepreneurial Training such as strategic business planning, Sustainability Education & Certification, Marketing Assistance with Social Media Platforms and website build-out from Edibles Advocate Alliance. Not to mention networking, contact building, and coalition building with Analiese Paik.  And there are more!  More local business experts to help!
• An investment system where pro-agriculture businesses band together to accomplish amazing things as a unified team!
• Investing in CT's agriculture is not just a game for those who want large returns or who have uber-millions to invest. I want a system where my $200 can help my neighbor!

WHY do we need CT Super Heroes?

We must learn to invest as if food, farms and fertility mattered. We must connect investors to the places where they live, creating vital relationships and new sources of capital for small food enterprises.

Let us celebrate the new generation of agricultural entrepreneurs, consumers and investors who are truly paving the way of our future.

Are you our HERO?

We are looking for:

• Brilliant financial minds to help us create a sustainable Agricultural Investment System in Connecticut
• Passionate individuals and local businesses who can lend their expertise, assistance, and local knowledge to our movement.