Weekly Harvest Membership · New Haven, CT
Every plant food you have ever eaten is sunlight, captured and held in a leaf.
We grow the shortest path between the two — microgreens and farm foods cut in New Haven, picked up weekly at three neighborhood sites.
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Founding Harvest
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Each cycle includes four weekly harvests. Membership renews every 28 days, creating 13 cycles per year.
Weekly price shown first. Your exact 28-day charge is always displayed — never called monthly.
Tier 1
$35 / week
$140 every 28 days · 4 weekly harvests
Ideal for individuals, couples, and first-time microgreen members.
Start with Seed & SoilTier 6
$55 / week
$220 every 28 days · 4 weekly harvests
A household that eats greens daily and skips the mushrooms.
Choose Full SunTier 2
$65 / week
$260 every 28 days · 4 weekly harvests
Ideal for plant-based households, families, and serious home cooks.
Choose Fungi & GreensTier 5
Seasonal$70 / week
$280 every 28 days · 4 weekly harvests
A household that wants the whole season. Nearly everything rotates — this tier follows the field.
Choose Garden HarvestTier 3
Opening soon$75 / week
$300 every 28 days · 4 weekly harvests
Ideal for premium local-food buyers, culinary explorers, and gift-oriented households.
Tell me when it opensTier 4 · Ecosystem
$85 / week
$340 every 28 days · 4 weekly harvests
Grown with
Liberated Land Cooperative
New Haven Black Farmers Collective
$34 of every $85 week goes to the partner farms. They set their own prices.
For households who want their grocery money to reach more than one Black farm.
Choose the Ecosystem ShareAbout the Ecosystem Share
Root Life grows the microgreens and the mushrooms. The produce comes from farms we work alongside — and the label says which. This is a Root Life box that partner farms supply into. Liberated Land Cooperative also runs its own weekly CSA, which is a separate thing you can join directly.
Out of season
Partner produce runs June through October. The rest of the year the share holds its price and fills with more Root Life mushrooms and greens — we say so on the container rather than quietly shrinking the box.
Where the money goes
$34 of the $85 week reaches the partner farms at prices they set themselves. The remaining $51 covers Root Life’s own growing, packing and the pickup routes.
Sovereign Luxury · By Inquiry
Deeply personalized harvest experiences. From $135/week ($540 per 28-day cycle) or a $500 one-time gifting experience.
Outside New Haven?
National shelf-stable program in development. Fresh food stays local — pantry goods will travel.
Join the Diaspora Pantry Waitlist →Volunteer days
Our sites need hands every week, in every season. Open days are posted on the board first and emailed to the list before they fill — no membership, no experience, no organization needed.
Volunteers never stand in for a job that should be paid. We run a $21/hour floor and paid apprenticeships alongside this.
Come see it first
You do not have to subscribe to eat with us. Pickups are open, film nights are sliding scale, and volunteer mornings cost nothing but a Sunday.
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Dates come from the events calendar, and only scheduled ones appear here. Workshops with a fee are listed separately under Gather.
What we mean by it
Photosynthesis is the only process on earth that turns light into food. A microgreen is that conversion at its densest — a seedling spending everything it has to reach the light, harvested at the moment it holds the most.
Afro-Indigenous foodways have always been solar. Provision grounds worked after dark, grain dried in the sun, hibiscus, palm oil, sorghum. Sunlight caught, stored, and carried across an ocean by people who were not supposed to survive the crossing.
Every step between the light and your plate costs something. We keep the count low: cut Thursday morning, in your hands Thursday afternoon. Not a slogan about freshness — a shorter distance.
The growing network
Root Life grows through a living network of indoor production spaces, community farms, neighborhood gardens, youth-learning sites and community pickup hubs. Each location serves a different purpose, but together they form one local food system.
Indoor production · Hamden
496 Newhall Street, Hamden · microgreen growing center, packing and product development.
Outdoor growing & youth work · New Haven
Growing, composting, distillation, market prep — and the paid youth program.
Community farms · New Haven
Seasonal production, agricultural education and neighborhood land stewardship. Not pickup sites.
Community garden · New Haven
79 County Street — we grow here as garden members, and hand over Saturday shares.
Three weekly pickup windows
Thursday · 5–7 PM
Root Life Office, 496 Newhall St, Hamden
Friday · 4–6 PM
“The Shack”, 333 Valley St, New Haven
Saturday · 12–2 PM
Armory Community Garden, 79 County St
Pickup only — fresh harvests are not home-delivered. Pickup details and policy
Four fresh harvests. One clear 28-day cycle.
STEP 1 — SEED
Six clear shares. Weekly pricing, transparent 28-day billing.
STEP 2 — ROOT
Lifestyle track, flavor profile, and whichever of our three pickup sites is nearest you.
STEP 3 — HARVEST
Fresh food every week, with crop stories, recipes, and storage guidance included.
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Tracks personalize your recipes, crop stories, music, and preparation guidance. They are preference overlays — not separate farms or guaranteed inventories.
What kind of harvest fits your table?A short quiz that suggests a track — you always choose.
Versatile, familiar, meal-friendly crops and family cooking ideas.
Trust Root Life to select the best harvest available each week.
Responsibly researched crop stories, diaspora food traditions, and culturally relevant recipes.
Every palate is personal. Pick yours — change it any cycle.
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Some senses travel through a screen. The rest are an invitation to taste in person.
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Nutrition summaries are evidence-reviewed. We grow culinary food — we don’t make medical claims.
The Crop-Story Archive
Botanical identity. Probable origin. Migration and diaspora adaptation. African American significance. Documented Indigenous relationships. Culinary use today. Every story carries its evidence grade, its sources, and its known uncertainties — because cultural memory deserves the same care as the harvest itself.
An intentional discovery system — a way to taste what’s next, vote on what we grow, and shape the harvest with us. Not every cycle brings a physical item; every cycle brings something worth opening.
See How Mystery Harvest Works →Investment, skills, opportunity, ownership, knowledge, land. Verified figures, updated from our living impact dashboard.
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Every figure here is either counted live from the site’s own data or checked and initialled by a person within the last 90 days — and anything older removes itself from this page. See the living Impact Dashboard for what sits behind each one.
Youth Agriculture & Entrepreneurship Program
At The Shack on 333 Valley Street, young people earn wages while learning agriculture, microgreens, composting, market operations, value-added products, essential-oil distillation and entrepreneurship.
Participants are not spectators. They seed, grow, harvest, compost, package, serve customers and test their own ideas — supervised, paid, and building a pathway into agriculture, green jobs and business ownership.
Applications, partnerships and sponsorships are three separate forms — no funnel that mixes a 15-year-old’s application with a funder’s inquiry.
Group drops bring Root Life to churches, workplaces, gyms, senior communities, schools, salons, barbershops, and community centers — one shared pickup, one stronger neighborhood.
Institutions & wholesale
Buying for a school, clinic, restaurant or corner store? That is a different conversation with different volumes, and it starts with a person rather than a cart.
Food, knowledge, jobs, and land-rooted community power.
Fresh local food and recurring membership.
Fresh culinary mushrooms, education, and future add-ons.
Compliant shelf-stable culinary products and seasonal releases.
Agriculture, food systems, media, science, and workforce learning.
Microgreens, mushrooms, cooking, compost, farm tours, and tastings.
Group drops, wellness programs, bulk shares, wholesale, and sponsorship.
In members’ and neighbors’ own words. Every story here was sent in by the person named and read by someone at the farm before it was published.
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A box, a pickup, a volunteer morning, a meal. A person at the farm reads every story before anything is published, and we publish your words as you wrote them — or not at all.
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Only so we can check with you. It does not add you to any list.
Please leave out health effects — we cannot publish stories about food treating, curing or preventing anything.
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Thank you. Your story is with the farm now. A person will read it before anything is published, and if something needs checking we will write to you.
Grown here. Harvested fresh. Shared with care.
