Enjoy Yoga In Our City this summer at parks throughout Hartford. Stretch, breathe, flex, and connect with the beauty around you at these instructor led yoga classes that are great for folx of all levels– beginner to absolute yoga pro. Classes in Colt Park are held Sundays, May thru October. Scroll their Instagram Stories for a map of where to meet up.

Bring your kids, or don’t. You definitely don’t need an excuse to ride the historic 1914 Stein & Goldstein Carousel because it frickin’ rules. Pro tip: the best seat in the house is on a horse named Freedom.

The Reading Fighting Phils stadium has a swimming pool directly behind the right field home run wall. It’s heated to 87 degrees, and you can swim with 309 of your closest friends or total strangers while also enjoying an all-you-can-eat buffet and mascot visits. However, this game is played at Dunkin’ Park, which doesn’t even need a pool to be voted Best Double-A Ballpark (but it’d be kind of cool if they did). But, everyone knows there’s no swimming in baseball – winner: Yard Goats.

KNOX, KNOX. Who’s there? Peas. Peas who? Peas will you join me at the farmers market? While hilarious jokes are our specialty, delicious seasonal produce and local goods are theirs, so go, pretty peas? Lettuce know if you turnip.

The KNOX Farmer’s Market acts as a connection point between KNOX’s Urban Farming Program and the local community. Visit them to get fresh, locally grown produce.

Enjoy Yoga In Our City this summer at parks throughout Hartford. Stretch, breathe, flex, and connect with the beauty around you at these instructor led yoga classes that are great for folx of all levels– beginner to absolute yoga pro. Classes in Bushnell Park are bilingual and are held Mondays and Wednesdays, May thru October. Scroll their Instagram Stories for a map of where to meet up.

Take the stage at lower Mortensen Riverfront Plaza for RiverBarre, a free class taught by instructors from Hartford Sweat. Barre is a total-body-toning workout based on a combination of ballet movement, yoga alignment and Pilates core work. You’ll feel the burn with these low-impact body weight exercises that incorporate resistance bands, yoga stretching and controlled breathing. Strengthen and sculpt your body and your mind, and don’t forget to bring water and a yoga mat, and wear sneakers.

Get your veg on at Connecticut’s Old State House Farmers Market. Nestled on the East brick plaza near the lawn you can peruse some delicious treats from a variety of vendors, listen to some tunes from local musicians, and then you can explore the oddities inside at the Museum of Curiosities. There’s a two headed calf in there, just sayin’.

Put two eggs in your basket, or two feathers in your hat, or two peppers in your peck of pickles and check out the Old State House’s Summer Concert Series with live musical performances during their Friday market.

Dozens of tavern signs once hung over busy public spaces where Connecticans ate, drank, slept, argued, celebrated, gambled, danced, and courted. On Tuesday afternoons this summer, drop by the Connecticut Museum for a gallery talk about tavern life in early Connecticut. Learn how to decode the symbolism on some of their most inscrutable signs, and why so few of these once-ubiquitous items have survived until today.

The West End Farmers Market believes that everyone deserves access to fresh, healthy, delicious food. Through partnerships with local farmers, businesses and nonprofit agencies, the market strives to bring a vibrant mix of locally-grown farm products and locally-made artisanal crafts to the West End and Asylum Hill neighborhoods of Hartford. Also, super-yummy cheese.