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04
Apr

New Milford Tells New Residents: Farms Are Here to Stay, Noise, Smells and All, NY Times Aug 2008

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New Milford Tells New Residents: Farms Are Here to Stay, Noise, Smells and All, NY Times Aug 2008

With about 40 farms left that mostly grow hay and vegetables, the town passed what it calls a right-to-farm ordinance. It cautioned all those home-owning arrivistes that this is farm country, son, though it put it a little more formally.  Click here for full story.

18
Sep

George Harris National Dairy Shrine Award, Dairy Herd May 1, 2018

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George Harris National Dairy Shrine Award, Dairy Herd May 1, 2018

Mr. Harris was a leader in the dairy cattle farming business in our town, and his children worked with the state Preservation of Development Rights to preserve half of Harris Hill Farm.  Working together with New Milford Farmland Preservation Committee, the Harris children raised funds to establish a college scholarship fund in honor of their father and their mother, who was also deeply involved in promoting agriculture in our state for New Milford high school seniors interested in pursuing careers in agriculture.  (The fund is administered through the CT Community Foundation.)   In addition, Sue Harris, his daughter, was instrumental in working with the New Milford Trust for Historic Preservation in developing the successful first phase of the eight-farm New Milford Quilt Trail.  George Harris, who is being honored nationally, would have been proud of all his three of his children for what they have also done to encourage the continuation of agriculture in our town.
George was also an enormous supporter of Sullivan farm for years, and the Harrises have made their preserved farmland available to the New Milford Youth Agency Sullivan Farm college and high school interns for years for years. George, who passed in 2012, will be honored at an awards ceremony in Madison, WI, on October 4, 2018.
Click here for link to article in Dairy Herd from May 1, 2018:
30
Aug

New Milford Farmland map

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Are you on this map?

Please click on and look at the New Milford Farmland map below.  If you are not included on this map, email: info@newmilfordfarmlandpres.org.

Thank you!

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09
May

Connecticut Farm & Food Guide 2018

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Connecticut Farm & Food Guide 2018

New Morning Market has generously underwritten the Connecticut Farm & Food Guide – 2018 edition for CT NOFA.

Download your copy here

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