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Local Produce & Meat For Sale
It's been an abundant season on the new land in Fitzwilliam at Tracie's Community Farm. We have a farmstand stocked with all the extras we can't fit in our CSA baskets including tomatoes, peppers, hot peppers, eggplant, cucumbers, bulk pickling cucumbers, garlic, onions, cantaloupes and watermelons. We are located on 72 Jaffrey Rd, .25 mile from rt 12 just north of the intersection of 119 where Mr. Mikes in located (on the left if coming from Keene).
Spring lambs are ready to go at the Johnson Farm in East Swanzey. The lambs are grass-fed on fresh grass on over one hundred acres of beautiful pasture. The lambs will sell for $1.80/pound, on the hoof, which includes processing. Orders are being taken now through the next two weeks. Pick up will be at the farm on a day to be announced. Please call 603.352.2870 if you are interested and ask for Mike Johnson.
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.
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Garlic-Tomato-Basil Butter
From http://www.epicurious.com
1 tbsp olive oil
1 1/2 cups chopped roma tomatoes
2 tsp minced garlic
1/2 cup butter, softened
2 tsp grated lemon rind
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
1/4 cup fresh basil, chopped
Heat oil in small skillet. Saute tomatoes and garlic, stirring occasionally to form puree (about 10 min). Cool completely. Mix butter, tomatoes, rest of ingredients.
Jamie Larsen's Roasted Garlic & Eggplant Salad or Dip
From I Am The Eggplant, Goo-Goo-G'Joob Article
By Sheryl Cornett, Independent Weekly
1 medium to large eggplant
2-3 cloves fresh garlic
1/2 cup olive oil
1 tablespoon fresh squeezed lemon juice (half a lemon)
1 tablespoon chopped fresh oregano (or 1 teaspoon dried)
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
Sea salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
Red leaf lettuce (or any tender salad green)
Garden ripe tomatoes: grape, cherry, plum or thick-sliced slicers Pita bread
Parmesan cheese (optional)
Preheat oven to 350. Peel garlic and cut into slivers. Cut a few long slits into the skin of each half of the eggplant and insert garlic slivers. Place on foil-lined baking sheet brushed with olive oil and bake 1 to 1 1/2 hours or until silky tender when pierced through. During baking, Jamie turns hers every 30 minutes or so, but I put mine in the oven and went back to grading summer school finals and never turned them once and they were fine. Remove from oven and cut eggplants in half; cool slightly.
Scrape eggplant pulp out of skin into food processor. Add remaining ingredients and process until smooth. Taste and add more seasoning if necessary. Transfer to bowl and cool completely in refrigerator. Keeps well for a day or two. When ready to use, set out the bowl as a dip with pita bread or fix individual salads by lining plates with lettuce leaves, spooning the eggplant puree into the middle and arranging tomatoes around edges. Drizzle top with olive oil and freshly grated Parmesan cheese. Garnish with oregano sprigs. Serves 4-6.
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Hannah Grimes Localvore Potluck
Sunday, September 14, Potluck: 5 - 7:30p.m.
Movie, King Corn: 7:30 p.m.
Stonewall Farm
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Celebrate the season with your community while enjoying the exciting sounds of the Cold River Ranters! If you haven't seen them before they are high energy acoustic music with an accordion, mandolin, and lots of other fun instruments. They play often at local venues like Armadillos and always draw a large crowd of families, young, and old alike.
Bring a dish featuring local ingredients. For more information, call
603-352-5063 or email: info@hannahgrimes.com
"KING CORN is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In KING CORN, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat - and how we farm."
Features Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma, and Earl Butz, former US Secretary of Agriculture.
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Family Farm Day - Pond Dipping
Stonewall Farm
Saturday, August 30, 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. . . .
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Monadnock Farm & Community Connection's
"Feast on This" Film Festival:
Celebrating Farms, Community, Sustainability, & Health
September 11-14
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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.
For more information about MFCC, contact Amanda Costello at 603-756-2988 ext.116 or email at amanda.costello@nh.nacdnet.net. |
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Slow Food Monadnock Event
Sunday, September 14, 4 - 7p.m.
Orchard Hill Farm, East Alstead
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Terra Madre Pizza Dinner & Raffle Drawing! Please join us at 125 Old Settlers Road - just off Rte 123, with our gracious hosts, Noah & Dove Elbers. $15 per person. Children under 6 Free
Featuring:
All Natural & Local Ingredients
Handmade Thin-Crust Pizzas with Fresh Toppings Including
Vermont Cheeses
Local Tomatoes & Other Vegetables
Local Farm Sausage
Amazing Varieties of Local Green Salads
Organic Apple Crisp and
Organic Creamery Ice Cream
Sample Wolaver's Organic Beers or BYO
Slow Food Raffle, Tickets on sale now, 1 for $5 & 5 for $20
Prizes Drawn on Sunday September 14th
* Garden Tour with Roger Swain
*Dinner for 8 by Aasta & Nell
*Slow Food Membership for 1 year
*Ben Watson's Newly Revised Book "Cider, Hard and Sweet"
*Slow Food Cookbooks
*Gift Certificates to local Establishments and much more...
For Tickets to this Event or to Purchase Raffle Tickets:
Call Aasta at 603-547-2301 and send checks to: Slow Food Monadnock, 121 East Road, Greenfield, NH 03047.
Raffle Tickets also available at Steele's Stationers. All proceeds will be used to sponsor Monadnock Region Farmer/Chef Delegates travelling to Terra Madre, a Gathering of World Communities,
in Turin, Italy, October 2008. All remaining proceeds will be donated to our local food pantries.
Thank you for your continued support of Slow Food Monadnock & Local Farmers and Food Producers
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| Regional Localvore Events |
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Massachusetts Raw Milk Dairy Day
Saturday, September 13
NOFA - MASS
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Features eight dairies across the state that are opening up their farms to people interested in learning more about raw milk and visiting a working dairy farm.
Participating Farms:
Bostrom Farm 701 Colrain Rd., Greenfield, MA, (413) 772-3732
10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Chase Hill Farm 74 Chase Hill Rd, Warwick, MA (978) 544-6327
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Cricket Creek Farm 1255 Oblong Road, Williamstown, MA (413) 458-5888
10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Lyons Brook Farm 76 Drift Road, Westport, MA (508) 636-2552
10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Oake Knoll Ayrshires 70 North St., Foxboro, MA
12:00 noon - 4:00 p.m.
Robinson Farm 42 Jackson Road Hardwick, MA (413) 477-6988
2:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Sidehill Farm 137 Beldingville Rd, Ashfield, MA (413) 625-0011
2:30 p.m. tour
Upinngil Farm 411 Main Road, Gill, MA (413) 863-2297
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
For more information, visit: http://www.nofamass.org
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D Acres September Events
D Acres Farm, Dorchester, NH
Saturday, September 6, 10a.m.-12p.m. Herbs for Kids with Lauren Buyofsky
Saturday, September 6, 1 p.m.-3p.m. Hard Apple Cider Making with Bill Errickson
Saturday & Sunday, September 13 & 14
Cultivating Wellness Conference - A celebration of Land Stewardship and Community Wellbeing in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Registration for 2 day conference: $100.
Featuring many workshops including:
The Herbal Kitchen with Maria Noel Groves. Get inspired to turn your garden herbs into fantastic treats you can use year-round or give away as gifts. We'll discuss techniques (and demonstrate a few!) to make herbal vinegars, oils, honeys, butter, cheese, cordials, pastes, spice blends, sugars and salts.
D Acres, (603) 786-2366,info@dacres.org, http://www.dacres.org
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Click here for more information on D Acres Organic Farm & Educational Homestead.
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Growing Herbs - Making Medicine
Saturday, September 6, 10a.m.
Anjali Farms, Londonderry, VT
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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.
Cover Crop Trials For
Soil Improvement
Wednesday, September 10, 5p.m.
Brattleboro Extension Office, Brattleboro, VT
The Brattleboro UVM Extension office fields are home to a 3/4 acre demonstration of 20 different cover crop plots, which have been rotated with different species over the past 4 years. Come see how different clovers, vetch, sudax, millet, soybean, cowpea, and more unusual cover crops, like sesbania and crotolaria, have performed. Co-sponsored by the Vermont Vegetable & Berry Growers Association. Please contact Vern Grubinger for more information, 257-7967x13. $10 for NOFA members, $15 for non-members.
Contact NOFA-VT or visit www.nofavt.org for more details and directions, 802-434-4122, info@nofavt.org, http://www.nofavt.org
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VT Sheep & Wool Festival
Saturday, September 6-7th
Champlain Valley Expo, Essex Jct, VT
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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
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2008 Tour de Taste: A Pedaling Picnic
Sunday, September 7th
Fairlee, VT
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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
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Canning Workshop
Sunday, September 14, 1 -3 p.m.
Post Oil Solutions, Saxtons River, VT
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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 . . . .
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Natural Resource Business Institute
September - December
UNH Cooperative Extension
13-week course will help natural resource entrepreneurs plan for success
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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
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7th Annual Honeybee Festival
Saturday, September 13, 10a.m. - 4p.m.
Warm Colors Apiary, South Deerfield, MA
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Common Ground Country Fair
Friday - Sunday, September 19-21
Unity, ME
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Come to the Fair and see why Downeast Magazine calls Common Ground "Maine's most authentic country fair, uniting, as it does, old-time folkways with progressive ideas about living the good life on a fragile planet."
MOFGA celebrates its 32nd Common Ground Country Fair. The Fair allows fairgoers to make connections with a rapidly expanding base of organic farms in the state of Maine. Hundreds of vendors, exhibitors and demonstrators, more than 1,000 volunteers, and roughly 50,000 fairgoers will gather to: share knowledge about sustainable living; eat delicious, organic, Maine-grown food; buy and sell beautiful Maine crafts and useful agricultural products; compete in various activities; dance; sing and have a great time.
For more information, visit: http://www.mofga.org
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Green Wagon Farm
Upper Court Street, Keene
Bill Jarrell
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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 |
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Hospitals Nationwide Purchasing
Local, Sustainable Food
May 29, 2008
From Health Care Without Harm
Arlington, VA - For 127 hospitals across the United States, the words "hospital food" and "healthy communities, healthy environment" are one and the same, according to a new report released by Health Care Without Harm today. The "Healthy Food in Health Care" report outlines concrete steps being taken by hospitals nationwide to change their food buying practices towards more sustainably produced, healthier choices for patients, staff and visitors.
"We applaud the 127 facilities, in 21 states across the country, including some that serve over 9000 meals every day, that have pledged to source local, nutritional, sustainable food," says Jamie Harvie, National Coordinator of the Healthy Food in Health Care Initiative. "These hospitals recognize that their healthcare food dollars are an important investment in preventive medicine."
In 2007, the American Public Health Association recognized the urgency of transforming our food system and passed a policy to promote environmental sustainability, improve nutritional health and ensure social justice. That same year, the California Medical Association passed a resolution that encourages hospitals to adopt policies that increase the purchasing and serving of local, sustainable food.
"By supporting local, sustainable food systems, these facilities are promoting health at the individual, community and global level," stated Harvie. "Across the country, pledged hospitals are continuously working to address the public and environmental impacts from current industrialized food production practices by sourcing nutritious, local sustainable food."
For more information on the healthy food pledge see http://www.noharm.org/us/food/pledge.
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As More Buy Local,
Farmers Markets Gain In Popularity
By Joseph G. Cote, Nashua Telegraph
August 20, 2008
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Brookline, NH - There wasn't a lot of room to park at the Brookline ball fields Tuesday afternoon. The parking was packed and cars lined the street nearby while people visited the dozen or so stalls for the grand opening of the Brookline Farmers Market.
Shoppers are relying more on local farmers markets and farm stands mostly for vegetables, but also for things like fruit, herbs, flowers and even soap and tea, according to some farmers.
Julia Kaplan, a Brookline resident, spent a few minutes at the Brookline market picking up a couple of spinach pies and pieces of fresh red snapper. She grows most of her own vegetables and supplements them with locally grown produce at a few local markets, she said.
"If you eat things that grow near where you live, it's symbiotic," she said. "It's healthier for you, and I like to support local people. Local is important. I wish there were more farms because it's really sad to see them go."
To read this entire article, go to http://www.nashuatelegraph.com
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Keep Cheshire County on the Map
Valley Food & Farm Requests Feedback
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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!
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Farmer Grant Applications
& How to Write a Farmer Grant
Now on the Web
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The Northeast Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program has posted the 2009 Farmer Grant application to its web site at www.uvm.edu/~nesare/. Follow the "farmer" links to download the application as a Word file. We also offer a booklet, "How to Write a SARE Farmer Grant," which gives many tips and examples of how to write a proposal. It's on the web site as a PDF file.
The postmark deadline for Farmer Grant proposals is December 16, 2008 for awards in the spring. If you have questions or would like printed copies of the guide and application, call us at 802-656-0471 or send e-mail to nesare@uvm.edu.
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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: Acorn squash, arugula, beans, beets, broccoli, cabbage, cantaloupe, carrots, corn, cucumbers, eggplant, mesclun, peppers, potatoes, summer squash, tomatoes, zucchini
Basin Farm:
Basil, bread, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, lettuce, garlic, leeks, onions, peppers, potatoes, tomatillos, tomatoes, watermelon, zucchini
Bolles Farm:
Hamburger, shin shank, bottom round roast, chuck eye round roast
Milkweed Farm:
Basil, beans, blackberries, chard, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, heirloom tomatoes, kale, onions, summer squash, zucchini
High Hopes: Apples, blueberries
Monadnock Berries: Apples, beans, blackberries, blueberries, currants, muffins, peaches, plums, tomatoes
Ruffled Feathers Farm:
Fresh Eggs on Tuesdays- Starting September 1st, Saturdays too!
Stonewall Farm:
Beans, cabbage, carrots, chard, cucumbers, dill, heirloom tomatoes, kale, parsley, summer squash, zinnias, zucchini
Sunset Farm: beans, carrots, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, heirloom tomatoes, onions, peppers, potatoes, summer squash, zucchini
Sawyers Syrup:
Maple syrup, maple cream, maple roasted mixed nuts
And more!
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| Local Products For Sale |
Price Road Perpetual Perennials:
Fall plantings of peonies, iris, & others;
Cut flowers;
Christa Patterson, Sullivan
603-357-5662
christahpp@verizon.net
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