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Are you ready?

This year’s 5th annual Kelp Harvest Week represents a huge progress milestone for the crop in Long Island Sound.

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Funding Seaweed

Seaweed-based packaging startup SeaSol wins Grand Prize in the Wolff New Venture Competition

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Food for Good

Our Stonington restaurant and farm community cares, as you'll see in our top EVENTS lineup, and it's often personal.  Check it out.

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Farm to School

The 2026 New England Food Vision Prize will award up to $1.5 million to collaborative farm to school initiatives and local sourcing efforts across the region.

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Future Fish

One of the region's most underrated, sustainable, and delicious fish, long dismissed as "trash fish" is gaining well-deserved recognition.

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Seafood Chefs Wanted

CFRF is seeking two seafood restaurants or businesses to develop recipes and value-added products utilizing minced scup meat.

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Book of the Month

Long known for its nutrient-packed versatility, seaweed is the latest must-have superfood, full of minerals and unami tastes.

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Why drive?

Healthy PlanEat is an online farmers market that exists so you can easily shop directly from local sustainable farms and food artisans.

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Always Home Chowder Cookoff

The popular annual Cabin Fever Charity Chowder Cook Off returns to Olde Mistick Village on Saturday, February 28th, 2026 from 12:00 to 4:00 pm

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Book of the Month

Can we inspire other seafood nations to follow the Icelandic example: creating more value in seafood through innovation and collaboration?"

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Connecticut Originals

Nan’s recipes remained a tightly held secret, except to her family. Now, two of her children and one of her granddaughters have used the late matriarch’s …

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The semifinalists

Two Mystic restaurant talents are semifinalists for a James Beard Award, one of the biggest honors in the culinary world.

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Stonington Red Shrimp

It’s not a vast fleet you’ll find 100 miles southeast of Stonington on the continental shelf, trawling the seabed at depths up to 2,700 feet…

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Time off

Our restaurants are driven by people. From the chefs and their crew in the kitchen to the front end and the bartenders, servers, bussers and dishwashers, your culinary satisfaction depends on a uniquely…

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Dear Owners:

Because your work can be a shining example to the rest of us, I'd like to tell more people about it — what you do, who does it and why it’s important, beyond your great food and drink and service.

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The oyster’s story

They started CORR as a small operation, initially collecting shells in their own cars before expanding, with support from the Fairfield Shellfish Commission. How did that work out?

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Milestones

Here’s some good environmental news in our own back yard courtesy of Long Island Sound Partnership.

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Book of the month

Ecologist Mark J. Easter offers a detailed picture of the impact the foods you love have on the earth. Organized by the ingredients of a typical dinner party…

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Fishing Starbrite

Empire Fisheries trawler Starbrite in action, hauling a load of Black Sea Bass and Scup before unloading at Stonington’s Town Dock.

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From sea to land

Regenerative Ocean Farming is a new form of aquaculture that is rapidly expanding world wide. Not only can it provide food, but it can also help buffer the negative effects of climate change.

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