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Hamden · New Haven

Where We Grow

One living food system. Multiple neighborhood roots.

Root Life grows fresh food across a network of indoor growing spaces, community farms and neighborhood gardens in Hamden and New Haven. Our distributed model connects food production, youth employment, hands-on education, community markets and neighborhood food access.

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The network, by function

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Indoor production runs year-round in Hamden. The New Haven sites are seasonal, community-governed ground where we grow alongside neighbours — and where the youth program works.

Five sites · three weekly pickup windows · one growing team. We are not one big centralized farm, and we never claim to be.

Choose your pickup location

Freshly harvested food, picked up where community already gathers. Three windows a week — pick the one that fits your life, and change it any time from your account.

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Pickup policy

Members should arrive during the published pickup window. Unclaimed food is highly perishable and may be donated, redistributed or handled according to Root Life’s pickup and subscription terms.

Read the full Pickup, Refund & Subscription Terms

Fresh harvests are pickup only — home delivery is not included with any membership.

Five sites, five jobs

Each location does something the others cannot. Together they make one local food system — production, education, employment, markets and neighbourhood access.

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What happens here

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Not a customer pickup location. Growing, education and stewardship only.

333 Valley Street — “The Shack”

Paid to Learn. Prepared to Lead.

At The Shack, young people earn wages while learning agriculture, microgreens, composting, market operations, value-added products, essential-oil distillation and entrepreneurship.

A ConnCAT youth holding up a whole peanut plant with the pods still attached to the roots.
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