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Chicks Ahoy Farm Inc is a Bloomfield based not for profit working to increase our representation and participation in the USDA's Agriculture Census.

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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
On September 24th, officials from Middlesex Hospital and the Department of Social Services (DSS) outlined upcoming changes to Husky D coverage affecting more than 300k people in CT. We have created a one-pager with a few questions people are asking.
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In March 2027 we wil open 20 acres of land for community people to farm, God Willing and the Creek Don't Rise of course
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Tending The Soil, Tending The Future: Empowering New Growers In Connecticut - Northend Agents Black Newspaper
Lorenzo Jones, Sr, Farmer, Chicks Ahoy LLC
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This is our 4th annual, family-friendly recap of what we've learned, grown, and cultivated this past year, and a chance to set priorities for what we'll sow in 2027.
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Harvesting Change 2026 | Chicks Ahoy Farm
Harvesting Change 2026 is our annual community dinner and visioning sesson.
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Building Leadership & Organizing Capacity tonight at 6pm. BLOC is a core training that builds your tools, tactics, and skills for self advocacy. Our suite of facilitated workshops are for people and aspiring farmers. Here is the link to register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: EggUcation: Building Leadership & Organizing Capacity 2026. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Community Organizing Training. BLOC is a core training that builds your tools, tactics, and skills for self advocacy. EggUcation is our suite of facilitated learning workshops we run to support local...
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Join us for Harvesting Change, Chicks Ahoy Farm’s annual vision-setting dinner. We'll share a meal, reflect on what we grew this year, and plan for what we want to learn and grow together next year. docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...
Join us for Harvesting Change, Chicks Ahoy Farm’s annual vision-setting dinner. We'll share a meal, reflect on what we grew this year, and plan for what we want to learn and grow together next year.
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This is why we have worked to increase the number of women, Black and Brown farmers in CT. Our communities fight and win demands from other state and federal agencies. We've never laid a glove on the CT Dept of Agriculture. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Nonprofit groups sue US Agriculture Department over rules on grants
Five nonprofit organizations sued the U.S. Agriculture Department on Thursday over grant conditions they say restrict speech ​in support of diversity initiatives and immigration rights.
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"Fish with CARE" Schedule of Classes and Events, August 2026: August 4, 2026, Saltwater, New Haven August 5, 2026, Saltwater, Norwalk Pier August 6, 2026, Eagle Landing State Park, Haddam August 8, 10, & 16, 2026, Saltwater, New London portal.ct.gov/deep/fishing...
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CARE Fishing Schedule
Schedule of classes and events for the CT DEEP Fish with CARE Program.
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Nearly 18,900 CT children have lost SNAP benefits over past year ctmirror.org/2026/07/30/n...
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Nearly 18,900 CT children have lost SNAP benefits over past year
CT's 15.7% rate of children losing SNAP benefits is worse than the 13% rate reported in a survey of 19 states where data was available.
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The Connecticut Mirror @ctmirror.org · 30/07/2026
CT's 15.7% rate of children losing SNAP benefits is worse than the 13% rate reported in a survey of 19 states where data was available. ctmirror.org/2026/07/30/n...
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Nearly 18,900 CT children have lost SNAP benefits over past year
CT's 15.7% rate of children losing SNAP benefits is worse than the 13% rate reported in a survey of 19 states where data was available.
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Aug 20th BLOC Training is coming up. You can register now.
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Cultivating Justice tabling at Bloomfield Farmers Market. Distributing mutual aid supplies and food to neighbors.
Cultivating Justice tabling at Bloomfield Farmers Market, June 2026.
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
We’re hosting our annual BLOC sessions that teach people the basics of community organizing. This is a really important training to learn how to build power in your community. Registger here for any or all three sessions bit.ly/BLOC26
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: EggUcation: Building Leadership & Organizing Capacity 2026. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Day Long Community Organizing Training. BLOC is a core training that builds your tools, tactics, and skills for self advocacy. EggUcation is our suite of facilitated learning workshops we run to supp...
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
We are offering three dedicated sessions for people interested in launching an agribusiness or initiating new farm projects. We encourage anyone planning to start a farm business or integrate agricultural elements into their existing business profile to register. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Farmers & Leaders of Color (FLOC). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Farmers & Leaders of Color is the core program work for Chicks Ahoy Farm. Participants are provided personal and professional development combined with coaching to assist with your agri-business are t...
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Chicks Ahoy Farm is celebrating our 4th birthday this month! In that time, we've grown dozens of farmers and growers, 1000+ pounds of food, countless chickens, and a powerful network of people civically engaged in addressing the root causes of our disconnection to food and farming.
Together, we've tackled municipal and statewide issues; developed relationships and public education programming with people of all ages; and challenged systems on issues ranging from individual farmers' rights to the right of thousand to access food. 

We don't win because we're right. We win because we're strong.

Thank you for your support! Because of you, we'll have more birthdays to celebrate together!
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Join us for a Mother's Day Cookout! RSVP here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... We'll be installing beehives and hosting a cookout to celebrate all the Queen Bees in attendance. Sunday, May 10 at 3pm Miller Street Community Farm 18 Miller Street, Middletown
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Please urge your legislator to vote in favor of SB 497. This bill is necessary to address some of the harmful effects of the "Big Beautiful Bill" on Connecticut's veterans, families, and individuals. For a detailed summary, a one-page explainer of SB 497 is attached.
FREE CT Action Alert for Senate Bill 497 asking people to contact their legislator and ask for them to support the legislation.
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Cultivating Justice organizes youth, elders, and those in between to increase access to food and farming, and to strengthen our social safety net. You can join our monthly meeting in person or via Zoom by registering here!
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Cultivating Justice Middletown Meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Cultivating Justice organizes youth, elders, and those in between to increase access to food and farming, and to strengthen our social safety net. We are teaching, organizing, and developing multigene...
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
How To Become a CT Farmer is a part of Chicks Ahoy Farm's agri-business entrepreneurial coaching program. This course is an EggUcation workshop, part of a series of facilitated learning workshops we run to support local aspiring farmers, growers, and producers.
THIS IS A HYBRID WORKSHOP-ATTEND IN PERSON OR VIA ZOOM

Light refreshments will be provided.

If you're joining us in-person, we'll be at:
693 Bloomfield Avenue, Unit 205 
Bloomfield CT 06002
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Growing Power is one of Chicks Ahoy Farm's annual events. Now in our fourth year, we feature presenters who are farmers and growers in our FLOC (Farmers & Leaders of Color), Cultivating Justice members, and leaders. Register here: bit.ly/growingpower26
Growing Power '26 Registration
Sunday, April 26th from 12:30pm to 5pm
CNTR- 725 Main St Unit 31, Middletown, CT 06457
Event, meals, and supplies-- all FREE!
Children Encouraged; Lunch and Snacks Provided

This event is open to everyone, and centers BILPOC, justice-impacted, and low-income families. Entire families, from babies to elders are welcome! Come for some or for all of the event!
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Our members have moved the Human Services Committee to raise SB 497 that would protect Food Security for Veterans and Others and Mitigating Federal Cuts to Nutritional Assistance for people with probation/parole @dianammartinez.bsky.social @shopseniorsinhart.bsky.social @lorenzojones.bsky.social
Action Alert asking people to contact the Human Service Committee members in support of SB 497 AAC (An Act Concerning) Protecting Food Security for Veterans and Others and Mitigating Federal Cuts to Nutritional Assistance, which will end the denial of SNAP benefits to people with probation or parole violations.
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
FREE CT's campaign to eliminate the reincarceration of people for technical violations of probation and parole has cleared a major hurdle. Our Founder @dianammartinez.bsky.social penned this article that lays out the plan for policy chane in CT on this.
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Ban the Box on Basic Human Needs: Food Security for People with Probation Violations - Northend Agents Black Newspaper
By Diana Martine, Chicks Ahoy Farm, Inc.
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Hunger as punishment: How states restrict SNAP benefits for people on probation #BanTheBox for basic human needs. #FREECT
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Hunger as punishment: How states restrict SNAP benefits for people on probation
A patchwork of statutes and administrative choices limits access to the food assistance program SNAP for some people on probation.
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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Correction Advisory Committee Public Hearing - January 29, 2026
YouTube video by CGA - Judiciary Committee
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
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Inmate's death at maximum security CT prison under investigation
Connecticut State Police and the state Department of Correction's security division were investigating an inmate's death at the Suffield prison.
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Fact sheet stating how violations for probation and parole impact families and individual people's access to food and basic human needs in Connecticut. CAF proposes a bnill to change this snare in the system.
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Correction Advisory Committee Public Hearing - January 29, 2026
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Correction Advisory Committee Public Hearing - January 29, 2026
YouTube video by CGA - Judiciary Committee
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The nonsensical policy requiring tech probation violations to be reported on SNAP applications is only one of the many problems we face with food security and nutrition.
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SNAP enrollment dips in Connecticut as new federal work rules begin, data shows
The new work rules were among the changes to SNAP that the U.S. Department of Agriculture asked all states to begin enforcing on Dec. 1.
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The F.R.E.E. CT campaign was initiated in the autumn of 2025 with the singular objective of ensuring CT's accountability in establishing an equitable and just state for all, particularly for individuals adversely and unjustly affected by systems ostensibly designed for assistance and rehabilitation.
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Sitting and listening to @claycane.bsky.social and @reeciecolbert.bsky.social show today on Urban View, Clay Cane blessed us with this BAR - 'Lead with your heart, not your fear'
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a man in a gray hoodie says got it
ALT: a man in a gray hoodie says got it
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Commission – January 20, 2026
YouTube video by Town of Bloomfield, CT
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The Connecticut Mirror @ctmirror.org · 20/01/2026
The 2025 Conditions of Confinement report examined several aspects of prison life, from food service to technology to medical care.
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Correction ombuds details 'institutional failure' in CT prisons report
The 2025 Conditions of Confinement report examined several aspects of prison life, from food service to technology to medical care.
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
We are fighting to reform the probation system by eliminating incarceration for noncriminal technical violations, introducing earned time credit and removing burdensome supervision fees in order to incentivize success, reduce caseloads and reduce the trauma of arrest.
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Probation was designed to be an alternative to incarceration.
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Connecticut residents demand systemic changes to the Probation System
YouTube video by Chicks Ahoy Farm
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The Connecticut Mirror @ctmirror.org · 12/12/2025
UConn and the Hartford Deportation Defense launched the ‘People's Migrant School’ to build bridges with the city's immigrants.
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Hartford's 'People's Migrant School' connects UConn to community
UConn and the Hartford Deportation Defense launched the ‘People's Migrant School’ to build bridges with the city's immigrants.
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
We have a public meeting scheduled for December 17th at the Elmwood Community Center in West Hartford, where the community will have the opportunity to meet with legislators, request legislative reports, and have HB 6361 heard in a public hearing during the 2026 legislative session.
FREE CT Probation Reform December 17th at the Elmwood Community Center in West Hartford
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
This public meeting is being called by people directly impacted by Connecticut’s probation system. People from neighborhoods across the state will meet with legislators to formally request a Public Hearing and legislative reports on House Bill 6361.
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Probation was designed to be an alternative to incarceration. Still, it has become a direct pathway into the prison system, creating an endless cycle of supervision and incarceration, while acting as a barrier to resources such as food insecurity.
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FREE CT Probation Reform Explainer, 2025
YouTube video by Chicks Ahoy Farm
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
We have a public meeting scheduled for December 17th at the Elmwood Community Center in West Hartford, where the community will have the opportunity to meet with legislators, request legislative reports, and ask that HB 6361 be heard in a public hearing during the 2026 legislative session. Join Us!
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Join the Statewide. We'll be joined by organizers, advocates, and community members focused on various aspects of justice reform in the state. If you have any questions, please contact our Policy Coordinator, Nick Rogers, at nick@chicksahoyfarm.org.
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Do you live in Great Hartford? Come thru our office on Thursday for our C2K pop-up! Grab some food and supplies, grab a coopon for meat from Saba Live Poultry, get a fresh cut from Barber Jimmy, and join us for a meal! Registration link in bio or visit bit.ly/c2ksignup ❤️✊🏾🌱
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
We have a public meeting scheduled for December 17th at the Elmwood Community Center in West Hartford, where the community will have the opportunity to meet with legislators, request legislative reports, and to have HB 6361 heard in a public hearing during the 2026 legislative session.
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F.R.E.E. CT Greater Hartford Meeting
Cultivating Justice has officially launched the F.R.E.E. CT movement, where our leaders and community members have decided to fight to change Connecticut's toxic probation system. With over 32,000 pe...
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
This event is free and open to families and people of all ages from across Connecticut. Harvesting Change 2024 was a great night with families sharing food and talking about farming, probation reform, and nutrition.
Join us for Harvesting Change, Chicks Ahoy Farm’s annual vision-setting dinner. We'll share a meal, reflect on what we grew this year, and plan for what we want to learn and grow together next year. Únase a nosotros para Harvesting Change, la cena anual del establecimiento de visión de Chicks Ahoy Farm. Compartiremos una cena, reflexionaremos sobre lo que cultivamos este año y planificaremos lo que queremos aprender y cultivar juntos el próximo año.
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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Harvesting Change 2025 RSVP
Join us for Harvesting Change, Chicks Ahoy Farm’s annual vision-setting dinner. We'll share a meal, reflect on what we grew this year, and plan for what we want to learn and grow together next year. ...
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
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Fannie Lou Hamer's Freedom Farms Cooperative: Where Farming meets Social Justice | Chicks Ahoy Farm
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
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The USDA and Trump Administration Are Hurting Our Food Security | Chicks Ahoy Farm
What are we doing about this at Chicks Ahoy Farm?!? 1. Expand access to affordable, fresh food, such as poultry eggs, during the winter for underserved families. 2. Keeping Basic Human Needs and Ha...
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Our next Statewide Criminal Justice Reform Call is October 14th, 2025, 11:00 AM to 12:00 p.m. We'll be joined by organizers, advocates, and community members focused on various aspects of justice reform in the state.
Criminal Justice Reform Call is October 14th, 2025, 11:00 AM to 12:00 p.m.
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
"There is no impact to Access Health CT or our customers during the government shutdown. Access Health CT and our call center are open. If you have financial help, including Advanced Premium Tax Credits, it will continue to be available to you during the shutdown."
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2025 Enrollment Events
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Chicks Ahoy Farm @chicksahoyfarm.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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The USDA and Trump Administration Are Hurting Our Food Security | Chicks Ahoy Farm
What are we doing about this at Chicks Ahoy Farm?!? 1. Expand access to affordable, fresh food, such as poultry eggs, during the winter for underserved families. 2. Keeping Basic Human Needs and Ha...
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