Moving Forward, Looking Back / Remnants of Fairfield farming tradition survive

... unless you have scuba gear. It's an oyster bed just off Fairfield's coast controlled by Hillard Bloom Shellfish in Norwalk. As an aside, the Bloom family has been farming oysters since the 1940s, and they work an astounding 24,000 acres of oyster ...



via Norwalk Newswire http://www.fairfieldcitizenonline.com/opinion/article/Moving-Forward-Looking-Back-Remnants-of-4706988.php

Moving Forward, Looking Back / Bigelow steeped in tradition, but a 'green' innovator

... R.C. Bigelow Inc. , a classic American business success story. Forty five years later, having outgrown its straining Norwalk facility, David E. and Ruth Bigelow moved their headquarters and primary plant into a renovated warehouse at 201 Black Rock ...



via Norwalk Newswire http://www.fairfieldcitizenonline.com/news/article/Moving-Forward-Looking-Back-Bigelow-steeped-in-4673019.php