How will Shared Harvest CT benefit our farmers, producers, chefs, restaurants, nonprofits, and farmland? As one of the many pieces of the puzzle, Shared Harvest CT will:
- Promote sustainable farming, sustainable food systems, and sustainable agriculture by providing alternative revenue and distribution options through web-based local food exchange and agricultural exchange transactions.
- Preserve Connecticut Farmland, preserve farms, and enhance CT Agritourism through the promotion of eating local food and locally produced products by increasing the direct contact with and awareness of our food supply.
- Increase the health and vitality of Connecticut residents through continued access to CT farmers and CT producers who provide sustainable, locally produced food.
- Support food insecure populations by supporting the nonprofits and community organizations whose missions are to promote Connecticut food security.
- Create an online interactive webspace for our residents that can unite all Connecticut and New England organizations - nonprofits, businesses, governmental agencies - whose mission and passion are to protect farmland, support farming, engage in local food consumer education, and farm market access.
Shared Harvest CT is designed to create a Sustainable Food Alliance Umbrella where consumers who are shopping for local food have immediate and direct access to supportive organizations, institutions, and passionate nonprofits who specialize in other separate, but equally important, areas of the Pro-Agriculture Support Chain.
Emily Brooks and the EA Alliance believe that collaboration is the only way to best meet our collective goal. We believe that we are all pieces of the same jigsaw puzzle and that collective collaboration will lead to long-term profitability and growth in our agricultural sector and increased preservation of our farmlands.