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Keep Cheshire County on the Map
Valley Food & Farm Requests Feedback |
The Valley Food & Farm program serves Cheshire County residents in several ways. One of the most visible is producing a free annual printed Valley Food & Farm Guide (also searchable on their website). They need our advice and feedback as they consider whether or not to keep including Cheshire County farmers in their service area. Please offer them help by answering a few questions. Let's keep this great service available to
Monadnock Region farms and localvores! http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB2285Y2XD53T |
Roasting Chickens For Sale
Abenaki Springs Farm in Walpole will have fresh organic chickens available at their farm with pick-up on three different dates. For more information, please call Erin or Bruce Bickford at 445-2157.
Spring Sun Farm in Westmoreland will have fresh chicken available for pick up. Email Chris for more information at hayhurst33@yahoo.com.
Farmers: Looking to sell your products direct to consumers? Send a description of what you're selling to jen@hannahgrimes.com and we'll post it in the next Localvore Newsletter. |
Little Peach PiesBy Localvore Katrina Hall
She's in the Kitchen Blog
I've gone berserk with peaches lately, making tiny pies almost every day. Actually, I suppose they should be called cobblers, since they only have a fat pastry top, sprinkled with sugar. In the beginning, I loosely followed the traditional mixing of peaches with sugar and flour, but I felt the peach flavor didn't shine, as I felt it could. Then I remembered the traditional Greek and Italian marriage of peaches and honey, tried it out, and was delighted. The peaches tasted like peaches, and the juices were clear and fragrant.
To make the peaches:
Peel and slice enough ripe peaches to make 2 heaping cups
Squeeze on 1 t. fresh lemon juice
1/4 t. salt
1/4 t. cinnamon
1 1/2 T. honey ( I used wildflower)
1 T. flour
Mix peaches in bowl with rest of the ingredients. Heap into 2 individual souffle cups or one larger 2 serving dish.
To make the pastry top:
Preheat oven to 400F.
In a mixer bowl, mix:
1 t. baking powder
1/4 t. salt
3/4 cup King Arthur all purpose flour
3 T. cold unsalted butter, cut in pieces
2 t. sugar
1/3 cup heavy cream
Mix the flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, and butter until crumbly. Add the cream and briefly mix, until it forms a ball. Roll out and cut with cookie cutters, or with a pizza wheel to fit your dishes.Bake for 25 minutes. Serve as is, or with softly whipped cream. This serves two people. Enjoy! |
Family Farm Day
Stonewall Farm
Saturday, August 23, 11a.m.- 2p.m.
Stonewall Farm continues the fun during Farm Family Days. Activities include garden tours, marked trails for easy bike rides, woodland hikes, and barn yard tours. Enjoy a hayride for $1/person through fields and wooded trails. Also enjoy scooped ice cream from our ice cream stand and self-guided activities available at our kiosk.
Check here for other upcoming Stonewall Farm events. . . . |
The Sustainability Project
August Calendar of Events |
Mushrooms in the Garden and Beyond:
Saturday, August 23rd, 3-6 pm. Join Dave and Jenny Wichland in the Emerson Brook for a mycological landscape workshop and Chanterelle foray. Mushrooms improve soil structure, serve as beneficial companions to plants and cultivate health in the garden and forest ecosystems. Followed by a potluck featuring the delicious Chanterelle mushroom. Sliding scale fee $35-45, barter available.
Board Meeting:
Monday, August 25, 6:30 -8:00 pm. Board of Director's meetings are open to the public and we welcome interested individuals. Come learn more about our activities, programs and opportunities to participate. This month, the agenda includes presentations on Board Governance and Sustainable Fundraising. The meeting will be held at the Cleveland Building community room located at 21 Roxbury Plaza, Keene.
For more information and directions for August events contact Valerie at: (603) 352-1887 or (603) 358-3444 or e-mail info@emersonbrookforest.org. |
Monadnock Farm & Community Connection's
"Feast on This" Film Festival:
Celebrating Farms, Community, Sustainability, & Health
September 11-14 |
The First Annual "Feast on This" Film Festival in Keene, sponsored by Monadnock Farm & Community Connection (MFCC) and Spirited Nutrition, seeks to entertain while raising food, farming, and nutrition awareness. The festival includes such movies as: "King Corn", "Two Angry Moms", "Simply Raw", and a variety of short films. Film hosts include the Hannah Grimes Localvore Project, Stonewall Farm, Fritz the Place to Eat, First Course Culinary Training & Catering, and others. More event details are set to be released next week.
For more information about MFCC, contact Amanda Costello at 603-756-2988 ext.116 or email at amanda.costello@nh.nacdnet.net. |
| Regional Localvore Events |
Canning Classes with Chef Hunn Monday, August 25th, 6 - 9 p.m. - $45
Atlantic Culinary, Dover, NH |
Canning safety techniques with Low Acid, Vegetables, Pickling and Fruits. In this class each person will have hands on experience of how to freeze and can Low Acid Vegetables, Pickling techniques and freezing Whole Berries. Each Person will leave the class with a low acid vegetable frozen and canned, a fruit frozen and canned, and a jar of pickles, frozen fruit plus a Ball Blue Book on Canning Techniques and Recipes.
Classes are limited to 25 attendees and must be pre paid. Please register at WBERRY@LLFARM.net and send enrollment fee to: Lasting Legacy Farm, 148 Second Crown Point Road, Barrington, NH 03825. If any questions please call 332-6328. |
Growing Herbs - Making Medicine
Saturday, September 6, 10a.m.
Anjali Farms, Londonderry, VT |
The day begins with a farm tour and weed walk with Lini Mazumdar, owner of Lotus Moon Medicinals. Get your hands dirty digging roots and wildcrafting herbs. After lunch, you will learn different methods of storing, processing, and making medicines and other herbal products. Lini will also discuss starting and owning an herbal business. $20 for NOFA members, $30 for non-members. Please bring a bagged lunch.
Contact NOFA-VT or visit www.nofavt.org for more details and directions, 802-434-4122, info@nofavt.org, http://www.nofavt.org |
VT Sheep & Wool Festival
Saturday, September 6-7th
Champlain Valley Expo, Essex Jct, VT |
A wonderful family weekend of demonstrations, workshops, colorful vendor booths, animals (goats, sheep, llamas and alpacas, oh my!) and sheep dog demonstrations. Find out what to do with that wool you have in your barn, buy a luxurious fleece and learn to spin your own yarn at home or learn about weaving and felting. Also, advanced knitting techniques are offered in British Gansey (fisherman's sweaters) and Swedish twined and cast-on. View or enter your fleece, handspun yarn, multi-generational in juried contests.
For more information: www.vtsheepandgoat.org/festival.html, Kat Smith, 802-446-3325, katsmith@vermontel.net |
2008 Tour de Taste: A Pedaling Picnic
Sunday, September 7th
Fairlee, VT |
Immerse yourself in a quintessential New England bicycling experience on this scenic progressive pedaling picnic through the Connecticut River Valley. Enjoy the autumn foliage at your own pace, meet local producers and community members, and sample delicious, local, harvest bounty at designated meal stops and farms along the route.
Last year's participants enjoyed potato leek chowder, just-picked corn on the cob, pizza, scrumptious barbecue, middle-eastern salads with fresh tomatoes, ice cream, and more!
REGISTER EARLY for this popular event - enrollment is limited, and it will fill fast! (Last year sold out!) www.uvtrails.org |
Canning Workshop
Sunday, September 14, 1 -3 p.m.
Post Oil Solutions, Saxtons River, VT |
Post Oil Solutions (Re)Learning to Feed Ourselves presents our third annual canning workshop with Treah Pichette. Learn skills for putting by the tomato harvest from your garden. Workshop fee is $5/$10 sliding scale, no one refused. Pre-registration is required. Contact info@postoilsolutions.org or call 802 869-2141 for details and to register.
Click here to see more POS Events . . . . |
Natural Resource Business Institute
September - December
UNH Cooperative Extension
13-week course will help natural resource entrepreneurs plan for success |
Perhaps you've thought of putting your open fields to better use by raising beef cattle for the local market. Or, for some extra summer income, adding Pick-Your Own raspberries to your Christmas tree operation. Maybe you've wondered about the feasibility of producing shitake mushrooms on your woodlot, boarding horses or starting a campground. Should you diversify a multi-generation dairy operation to increase income opportunities that will encourage your children to keep farming after you retire?
An interdisciplinary team of UNH Cooperative Extension staff has teamed with outside experts to offer a 13-week Natural Resource Business Institute (NRBI) this Fall at UNH Thompson School of Applied Sciences in Durham. This first-of-its-kind course will provide individuals and families who want to start or expand a natural resource-based business with the essential information and preparation they need to be successful.
Dates and times: Wednesday evenings,
September 10 through December 10, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Location: UNH Thompson School, Durham, NH
For more information or to register:
Call UNH Cooperative Extension Nada Haddad at 603-679-5616 or Geoffrey Njue 603-749-4445.
The web address for online registration is:
https://www.events.unh.edu/register.shtml?event_id=4780
Also visit our website at www.extension.unh.edu |
Green Wagon Farm Upper Court Street, Keene
Bill Jarrell |
Imagine biting into a fresh, steamed or roasted ear of local corn, so fresh the kernels pop with each sweet bite. Can't you just taste it?
A bounty of fresh corn is now available, and at Green Wagon Farm in Keene you can pick out just the amount you want, from a basket brimming with ears that still smell of the cornfield.
"It's always picked the day you get it-off the spot for an hour or two or even less," says owner, Bill Jarrell. Temptation, a bi-colored variety, is the farm's current seller. "Nothing but good responses from people about it," says Jarrell.
Throw in a few extra ears. Corn is an excellent freezer choice. Or preserve it in a jar, its sunny contents canned and stored for a cold winter's day. And easily mixed with fresh red and green peppers, onions and spices, you have a medley of colors and flavors in a corn relish to accompany dinner, to preserve, to enjoy with a winter meal or give as a special holiday gift, if so inclined.
Green Wagon Farm is open seven days a week, Monday-Friday 10-6 p.m., weekends 10-5 p.m.
Corn is just one of many, quality seasonal vegetables available right here in New England. Support your local farmers and your community while enjoying fresh, nutritional food. Buy local.
Other farm-direct vegetables:
Pete's Farm Stand
Mike Janiszyn
Rte 12
Walpole, NH
The Farm on South Main
South Main St.
Troy, NH
Gus and Karen Gutierrez
603-242-7865 |
InSeason Delivers
Real Local Food in BostonBy Ryan Weaver, from the Bostonist
August 16, 2008
Boston, MA - Chris Crandall, the brains behind InSeason, a Salem-based local food delivery service ("the Pea Pod of local food").
This week, his service launches in Boston using bike delivery vehicles from the New Amsterdam Project to deliver locally-grown produce and locally-made products like cheese and bread (he'll have a fleet of trucks later on to keep up with demand).
"I feel very strongly about farmers in New England. I wouldn't have chosen this business if I didn't feel there was this intrinsic part of New England that's just vanishing. My family history is in Vermont, [where] the dairy farms are being replaced by townhouses," Crandall says. "Places lose their personality when they modernize and homogenize. I don't want that to happen for New England. There's a strong contingent that wish it wasn't like that everywhere. And those are the folks I'm trying to appeal to."
To read the entire article, visit http://bostonist.com |
Mobile Freezer Helps
VT Farmers Preserve Crops
By Associated Press
August 18, 2008 |
Craftsbury, VT - Pete Johnson, owner of Pete's Greens, already extends his vegetable farm's summer bounty by using cold storage. He will soon be able to offer customers some of his harvest throughout the year, thanks to a new Vermont Agency of Agriculture mobile freezing unit.
"It brings some access to people that normally wouldn't have it. It gives them another marketing opportunity," said Kevin Schooley, executive director of the North American Strawberry Growers Association.
Vermont and other states already have or are planning mobile processing units for meat and poultry. But the quick-freeze trailer is among the first in the nation designed to process and freeze vegetables right at the farm, officials said.
To read this entire article, go to International Herald Tribune |
Localvore Fact of the Week
From Sustainable Table Website |
| The University of Essex found that sustainable agriculture increased productivity by an average of 93% in 9 million farms in such places as the Sahel of Africa, the hills of the Andes, the rainforests of Southeast Asia, and other areas where chemical inputs are neither affordable nor successful. Meanwhile, industrial agriculture has allowed the US to develop a culture of over-consumption, where we waste about half the food we produce. |
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Keene Farmer's Market Update
What's Fresh? |
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Located on Gilbo Avenue in Keene
Every Tuesday and Saturday from 9-2 Abenaki Springs Farm: Beans, beets, broccoli, cabbage, cantaloupe, carrots, cucumbers, parsley, peppers, potatoes, tomatoes Basin Farm:
Basil, cauliflower, broccoli, greens, beans, tomatoes, tomatillos, cherry tomatoes, peppers, kale, beets, cucumbers, baby carrots, cabbage, garlic, potatoes, onions, leeks, lettuce, bread
Bolles Farm:
Hamburger, shin shank, top round roast, boneless chuck eye roast
Milkweed Farm:
Heirloom tomatoes, green beans, onions, chard, cucumbers, kale, bok choy, peppers, radishes, cherry tomatoes, summer squash, cilantro, basil, zucchini
High Hopes: Blueberries, apples
Monadnock Berries: peaches, plums, blackberries, nectarines, apples, tomatoes, jam
Ruffled Feathers Farm:
Fresh Eggs, Tuesday Only
Stonewall Farm:
Heirloom tomatoes, cucumbers, summer squash, cabbage, kale, chard, cabbage, parsley, thyme, maybe peppers, zucchini
Sunset Farm: Eggplant, cucumbers, summer squash, beans, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, onions, potatoes, peppers, flowers, zucchini
Sawyers Syrup:
Maple syrup, maple cream, maple roasted mixed nuts
And more! |
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