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Weekly Harvest Membership · New Haven

Eat the Sun.

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 nearby.

A hand resting open on broad collard leaves, wearing three copper-wrapped crystal rings and stacked beaded bracelets, with dark soil and young growth between the plants. Collards in the bed · New Haven
Join the Weekly Harvest See What’s Growing

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Choose Your Share

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Each cycle = four weekly harvests. Renews every 28 days · 13 cycles per year. Never called monthly.

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Sovereign Luxury · By inquiry

Private households & executive gifting — request a consultation →

Outside New Haven?

Join the Diaspora Pantry waitlist — shelf-stable, nationwide →

Volunteer days

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Come work the beds with us.

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.

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Come see it first

Not ready to join? Walk the racks.

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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What we mean by it

It is literal

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.

It is inherited

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.

It is a verb

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.

Grown in New Haven Black-owned Farm-direct Crop stories included

The growing network

Where You Collect It

Three pickup windows a week, all free. You choose one when you join and can change it any cycle. There is no delivery — someone hands you the box.

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We also grow at 222 Starr Street, Ward Street and The Shack on Valley Street. Those are working sites — only the three windows above are handovers.

See where we grow Choose a pickup site

From Our Growing Room to Your Table

Four fresh harvests. One clear 28-day cycle.

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What Actually Changes

Six things differ between the shares. Everything else is the same in all four.

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In every share

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Institutions & wholesale

Buying for a school, clinic, restaurant or corner store? That starts with a person rather than a cart.

WholesaleFood hub Corporate gifting

Three Lifestyle Tracks

Tracks personalize your recipes, crop stories, music and preparation guidance. They are preference overlays — not separate farms or guaranteed inventories.

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Choose Your Flavor Profile

Every palate is personal. Pick yours — change it any cycle.

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What’s Growing Now

See This Week’s Harvest →

Every Box Builds Community Power

$21/hr

Starting training wage

2,000+

Youth reached in a decade

See the living Impact Dashboard →

From the Root Life Table

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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Share your Root Life story

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.

Your Weekly Harvest Is Waiting.

Grown here. Harvested fresh. Shared with care.

Choose My Membership

Watch: how Root Life works

All 24 films →

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