Date: Thursday, September 23
Time: Open house from 4:00 pm until 8:00 pm with tours offered every hour
Cost: Free

Event Details

Stop by Rose Avenue Education Farm for a visit and enjoy a walk around the farm with a guided tour!

Learn about the development of this new community resource for local farm start-up businesses.

Many of the farmers in the incubator program are Burmese refugees, so you will see some traditional and culturally specific cultivars and production methods.

Small group tours will be given on the hour, no group is too small.

Rose Avenue Education Farm & Heartland Communities
Heartland Communities' Facebook Page

Rose Avenue Farm is 10-acre farm business incubator for start-up vegetable farmers. Each new farmer tends a one-half acre plot and sells vegetables direct to customers at farm markets and to other buyers.

Heartland Communities, a nonprofit organization, is administering a Refugee Agricultural Participation Program grant from HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement to help refugees with previous agriculture experience to learn the particulars of intensive vegetable farming in the USA and get their farm businesses started.

Rose Avenue Farm has professional Farm Educators and Interpreters on staff to teach the science and art of vegetable production using organic-approved techniques. Workshops and classes are also offered to the public to learn vegetable production, soil conservation, integrated pest management, and other topics of interest to vegetable farming.

The farm and markets are managed by Plowshares Cooperative Food Hub.

TRAVEL TIP: Google Maps will tell you to turn down West Street, but don't! One block further east is the farm field, and the driveway is east of the field along the tree line. You will see the farm stand near the road. Drive all the way down the driveway to the parking lot. Rose Avenue at Landin Rd to the East of the farm is closed until later this fall, so you have to come in via Parrott Rd (Maplecrest intersection) or Hartzell Rd in New Haven.