‘TABLE-TO-FARM-TO-TABLE’ WITH DANCING DOG FARM

We are so pleased to have formed a new partnership with yet another local farmer! Earlier this February, Chef Jay Lippin met with Wilson Chang from Dancing Dog Farm to collaborate on the coming season’s produce plantings.

Dancing Dog Farm is a homestead farm in Ridgefield, CT that has recently relocated from their farm in New Hampshire. Everything is raised “beyond organic,” using no synthetic pesticides, herbicides or fertilizers.

What resulted from this meeting was not just a new farm to table partnership, but so much more! At the Kittle House, we have been eagerly researching the implementation of a composting system to cut down on restaurant kitchen waste and create a fertilizer that could be used by our local farmers.

Now, Dancing Dog Farm and Crabtree’s Kittle House are compost partners! Wilson, from Dancing Dog Farm, visits the Kittle House three times a week to pick up our newly sorted compost bins. Back at the farm, the compost is converted to fertilizer, and the useable food scraps that we save are distributed to their most suitable takers among the chickens, pigs, cows, etc. It’s the new ‘Table-to Farm-to Table’ collaboration.