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A New Organic Farmers Market Opens in May at Fairgate Farm On May 31, 2018, Fairgate Farm, located at 129 Stillwater Avenue, will introduce its first Farmers Market featuring organic produce from five farms. The…

A new farmers market is coming to the city’s West Side! The Neighborhood Grant Program, created last year when Mayor David Martin set aside $75,000 for the initiative, provided grants ranging from $1,500 to $4,000…

The Stamford community is joining forces to raise funds to build the Anthony Pellicci Pergola at Fairgate Farm, 129 Stillwater Avenue, in the historic West Side neighborhood for which Pellicci gave his impassioned support. Architects,…

A large arbor dedicated to Anthony Pellicci, the popular West Side restaurant owner who died in 2014, is planned for Fairgate Farm. Organizers have raised about $6,600 of the $15,000 needed for the pergola. Click…

The Vita Health & Wellness District is a one-mile corridor in Stamford, Connecticut, that has positioned itself as a “health-themed neighborhood,” offering mixed-income housing, health care services, community farming, early childhood education programming, and supportive…

Fairgate Farm, located at 129 Stillwater Avenue and part of the Vita Health & Wellness District, is managed by the newly-appointed farm manager, Peter Novajosky, who brings a wealth of experience in horticulture and gardening…

Fairgate Farm — founded in 2011 as a partnership between the city’s housing authority, Stamford Hospital and the Boys & Girls Club — has more changes afoot than just the growing season. Farm coordinator Maxon…

Good soil is teaming with life, and the more you work with this life, the more they work with you. Less than one 8-ounce cup of healthy soil has more microbes than there are humans…