Join in on the Winter Market Love this week! Visit our warm gathering place and see your neighbors, friends & community! Remember to tag your market photos online with #CitySeed!
We sat down with the women of Three Girls Vegan Creamery out of Madison, CT. They are fairly new to the CitySeed Farmers Markets providing dairy-free, plant-based, organic vegan cheese offerings! Visit them at our Winter Market on: 1/28, 2/25, 3/11.
1. How did your business get started/How did you first get started? Being an Italian-vegan family, it was the cheese that kept us doing double takes at family gatherings. We decided to solve that problem. First, we took on the mozzarella and after pounds and pounds thrown away, we arrived at the perfect texture and taste. We were able to convert a some family members to a dairy-free life and started making cheese for friends and family. That led us to starting the Creamery.
2. What's unique about your product? I think the small batch, fermented and cultured approach to vegan nut cheeses really sets us apart. Of course, bigger than that would be the love and passion we put in to our products. We really love what we do!
3. What's the story behind your business name? As a long-time single mom with two daughters, it has always been the three of us in the world. Time has marched on and the family has expanded but the core was always us, Three Girls, and we are Vegan!
4. What is your favorite product? It would be a toss up of the Pistachio, Cranberry, Fresh Thyme, Pumpkin Seed aged cheese wheels and the fresh Mozzarella "di Bufala" in a caprese salad. So yummy!
5. Tell us about your use of local ingredients. All of the herbs we use are locally sources here in CT. Once the season changes we are super excited to begin our Edible Flower line that is as beautiful as it is delicious. We source all of those locally as well!
6. What do you like to do when you have spare time? Spare time? What's that? Truthfully, cook, cook, cook. I love to veganize everything from traditional Italian dishes to seafood. We make awesome clam strips from Oyster mushrooms, and Cauliflower "Chickun" Cutlets and so many more!
7. What's one thing you want everyone to know about your business? Three Girls Vegan Creamery is our culinary activism. We hope to make the greatest vegan cheese possible to hopefully assist more people to go dairy-free. Not only for one's personal health but with compassion for our animal friends who cannot defend themselves.
8. What are the best and hardest things about being in this industry? We have been lovingly received with warmth and excitement, that has been the most beautiful gift. The hardest has been learning how to navigate the growing pains. We want to remain small and focused on small batches with love!
Like them on Facebook here. View their website here.
Humans of CitySeed
Modeled after the
Humansof New York project, "
HumansofCitySeed" is a storytelling project that allows market-goers to share personal narratives related to food and community. Lauren Kohler, an intern at the Yale Farm, organized the project this summer. Participants share their experiences, anecdotes, and ideas during brief interviews, which culminate with photographed portraits.
CitySeedthen publishes the portraits alongside excerpts from the interviews.
HumansofCitySeed stories from community members and customers represent the vibrant
CitySeed marketplace.
Follow the whole series on our Facebook & Instagram page by using the hashtag: #humansofcityseed
New Leadership
Ameila Reese Masterson
CitySeed Executive Director
All of us at CitySeed are thrilled to announce that Amelia Reese Masterson is joining us as Executive Director on January 3rd, 2017! Amelia is returning to New Haven from Washington, DC, where she has been dividing her time between there and Lebanon, working with the International Medical Corps. Her focus has been working in food security and public health nutrition programs with refugee and immigrant populations.
Amelia earned her Masters of Public Health at Yale, and is del
ighted to be returning to New Haven. She is especially looking forward to expanding the use of CitySeed's commercial kitchen, as she designed and launched a healthy school-feeding program linked to women's community kitchens in Beirut.
Amelia's commitment to social justice and food system work position her well to lead CitySeed's work to engage the community in growing an equitable, local food system that promotes economic development, community development and sustainable agriculture, and especially to dismantling inequality in the New Haven food system.
Please join us in welcoming her in the coming months!
The 2017 Winter Market is off to an amazing start! We are so excited to have so many folks coming out to the market! Here are some tips o
n parking:
Parking is available at the Metropolitan Business Academy (115 Water Street), next door at Unger's Auto Body (105 Water Street), and High School in the Community (175 Water Street). Here are some tips we hope will make parking easier:
The market is busiest between 10am-11am, so the Metropolitan Business Academy MBA (115 Water Street) and Unger's Auto Body (105 Water Street) lots tend to fill up quick. Coming after 11am might make finding a close spot easier!
If you do come during our busiest times the mo
st convenient place to park is High School in the Community, 175 Water Street (less than a 5 minute walk to the market)
Limited street parking is also available on:
Brown St. (one-way side street, 2 hour parking, about a 2 minute walk)
Wooster St. (2 hour parking and about a 5 minute walk using Brown St.)
Do not park in the Avantus lot or your car will be towed. Their lot is needed for their patients and ambulances/life-saving vehicles.
It's been a mild winter, why not walk and/or bike to the market if you live nearby!
