Experience Local Agriculture
Live Local at UConn
Live Local Connecticut is a UConn Extension program encouraging residents to live locally through food and gardening, and ties into our Live Local app. The Live Local UConn Trail highlights a few locations in and around UConn's Storrs campus where you can live locally. The University of Connecticut and the surrounding area offers the opportunity to purchase locally grown food and gardening items in several locations. Come up to campus and visit some our great attractions while supporting local agriculture.
Stop by the UConn Dairy Bar for some of their award winning ice cream. You can view the production facility from the Dairy Bar, and choose from many available flavors, or take some home with you. Also available at the Dairy Bar are UConn Poultry Farm Fresh Eggs in a variety of sizes, and Cheeses...
UConn Blooms, housed in the Floriculture Building, serves the community with high-quality flowers and plants for most occasions. Customers such as students and their families, faculty and staff, and the university departments, order online, purchase via phone or walk into the store. UConn...
"Food for Thought" and the "Ice Cream Truck" have hit the streets of UConn!
Whitney “Local Routes” offers a sustainable and local menu featuring seasonal food items from a variety of local farmers and food producers including our own UConn Gold honey, UConn eggs, UConn Dairy Bar ice cream and produce from the UConn EcoGarden.
Chuck & Augie's is located in the UConn Student Union and participates in Connecticut's Farm-to-Chef celebration. Farm-to-Chef Week was started by the Connecticut Department of Agriculture in 2024 as part of its year-round Farm-to-Chef program. This special week encourages culinary...
Everyone is welcome to explore the animal barns and learn more about the animals that are used in the Department of Animal Science program. Visitors can see dairy and beef cows, sheep, and horses. The poultry units are closed to the public.
UConn offers a Farm Fresh Market in season on Fairfield Way. The market offers fresh local produce from our own Spring Valley Student Fam and other local farms, baked goods from our Not Just Desserts bakery, local honey, and many other local products each week. (Because of construction, the...
Their goal is to provide individuals with disabilities paid training and meaningful work ex-perience in a retail horticultural setting. Tri-County Greenhouse is located adjacent to the UConn Depot Campus. Tri-County Greenhouse is open year round and offers products grown on site, unique to the...
One Plate, Two Plates also located in the UConn Student Union was created based off the philosophy that their menu would be made from non-processed, real, and locally sourced foods. With the tag line “Fast food served healthy and fresh”, they hope that creating a menu based on preparing...