Year: 2019

Compost your Pumpkins at Fairgate Farm

Fairgate Farm Awarded $25,000 Grant by the EPA

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded Stamford’s Fairgate Farm a $25,000 “Heaps for Health” Community Composting grant to continue and build upon the farm’s food waste diversion program. The EPA funds will enable…
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Young women reign in Westhill’s agriscience program

If you happened upon Fairgate Farm on a Wednesday morning this summer, you’d likely find six teenage girls chatting while harvesting the one-acre community garden. “We’re always talking to someone,” said Diana Kolaj, describing the…
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