Community Pathways · Food · Work · Health · Ownership
Food is the doorway. Ownership is the destination.
Paid training, youth apprenticeship, food access, and a community fund — the same enterprise that grows your greens grows wages, credentials, businesses, and land stewardship in Greater New Haven.
One pathway, soil to deed
Tap a rung — the architecture behind everything we grow.
“A conviction history must never become a discount on a person’s wage.”
Four Programs, One Ecosystem
Each a complete, legally grounded architecture — tap to open.
The Community Harvest Fund
Same harvest. Same quality. Sponsored table.
Premium memberships, checkout round-ups, and higher tiers extend the identical weekly harvest to households that can’t currently bear the full cost — beginning with 2–3 sponsored households in our first 25-member cohort.
Honest fine print: at launch the Fund lives inside Root Life LLC, so contributions are not tax-deductible. Sponsored members receive the same containers — nothing labeled, nothing lesser.
Sponsor a ShareWhat We Hold Ourselves To
$21/hr
Starting training wage
2,000+
Youth reached in a decade
2–3
Sponsored households in first 25
3 yrs
To DOL-registered apprenticeship
The living dashboard reports only verified counts.
The infrastructure layer · In development
The Black Food Hub & Producer Network
Where the pathway leads at regional scale — built demand-first, owned in layers →