Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont touted agricultural production as an important part of the state’s economy, by visiting an oyster farm in Norwalk and a winery in Shelton on Tuesday.
At the Jones Family Farm, nestled among rolling hills between Monroe and Shelton just above the Housatonic River Valley, Lamont invited the public to support local agriculture.
“Get your Christmas tree, get a pumpkin, get some wine. See he’s bringing in the fresh grapes. This is Connecticut. I’m trying to promote it everywhere I can.”
Agriculture is a $4 billion-a-year business in Connecticut. It employees 22,000 workers and covers about 400,000 acres of land.
Lamont had earlier visited the Copps Island Oysters farm in Norwalk. More than 70,000 acres of shellfish farms are under cultivation in the state’s coastal waters.
