Dear Neighbors and Friends,
Come to the Rye Winter Farmers' Markets
Saturday, January 16th from 11am-2pm at the
Rye Junior High School.
Enjoy a variety of local produce, fresh native shrimp, fish, meats, poultry, fresh baked goods & breads, cheeses, teas, herbs, maple syrup, and take-home macaroni & cheese.
Support eating local! This is a wonderful opportunity for you to buy foods grown, raised, and prepared by our local farmers, bakers and fishermen.
Even though the ground is snow covered it's a great time to plan your 2010 garden. Bring last year's extra seeds and your saved seeds to the Seed Exchange Table on January 16th and swap seeds with your friends and neighbors. See more on seed saving in the article below.
Other dates for the Rye Winter Market are Saturday, February 20th and Saturday, March 20th at the Rye Junior High School.
For information regarding the Rye Farmer's Market, please contact Jaci Grote at ojgrote@mac.com or Tracy Ritzo at tritzo@comcast.net. Vendor space is available.
Mark your calendars and bring your friends. See you at the market.
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"Don't get your fuel from the same place your car does." Michael Pollan |
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Home Energy Savings Workshop on January 23rd at the Rye Library |
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Come to the Home Energy Savings Workshop on Saturday, January 23rd at The Rye Public Library from 10:00am-12:00pm.
Rye is pleased to have been selected by Clean Air-Cool Planet as a regional host for a free home weatherization workshop as part of the official launch of Button-Up NH, a highly successful program pioneered in Vermont and now available in New Hampshire. This workshop will be conducted by a qualified home energy expert who will introduce homeowner-participants to the basics of home energy budgets and the value of home weatherization.
These workshops are designed to teach residents about the fundamentals of how homes lose energy, simple do-it-yourself measures for incremental energy savings, the value of a professional home energy audit, significant savings opportunities and the long term benefits of extensive professional energy retrofits, health and safety issues related to tightening up buildings, and available technical and financial resources. The Rye Library will receive a copy of a DVD on "Simple Weatherization Measures to Button Up Your Home" that will be available to all residents.
Rye's workshop on Saturday, January 23rd will be led by Anne Stephenson of Clean Air-Cool Planet. Anne was trained as an architectural historian and worked as a green building consultant before joining Clean Air-Cool Planet. She holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and is a LEED AP, HERS Energy Rater, and BPI Building Analyst. She recently oversaw preparation of CA-CP's Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy and Historic Preservation: A Guide for Historic District Commissions which details ways to employ energy efficiency measures and renewable energy without detracting from the historic value of properties, from private residences to community buildings and museums.
Button Up NH workshops are free and open to the public. The Rye Energy Committee would like to invite residents from all seacoast towns to attend our workshop.
For more information please contact Lucy Neiman, Rye Energy Committee at lucy@strawspt.com or at 964-7711. |
| Voluntary Simplicity Course Offered at the Rye Library in January |
 The Rye Energy Committee is offering another course from the Granite Earth Institute titled Voluntary Simplicity. This course explores the personal and environmental benefits of living simply.
- Gain an understanding of the meaning of voluntary simplicity.
- Explore the material and psychological distractions that prevent us from caring for the Earth.
- Consider how life might be enriched through the practice of simplicity.
- Develop a personal action plan to integrate simplicity into your lives.
The classes will meet at the Rye Public Library for five consecutive Thursday evenings from 6:30-8pm. The class dates are January 21 & 28 and February 4, 11, & 18. Course costs $20 for the book.
There is currently room for 1 more participant. We will create a wait list. If several people respond a second class will be scheduled.
Meet neighbors and create community. Join us. All are welcome.
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| Check Out The New Rye Energy Committee Website! |
Many thanks our volunteer website extraordinaire, Nicole Carrier. The Rye Energy Committee is proud to introduce it's beautiful new webisite. Visit us today at www.ryeturninggreen.com!
To keep up to date with the Rye Energy Committee, you can now:
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| Other Area Winter Farmers' Markets |
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The Winter Farmers' Markets offer fresh salad greens, onions, potatoes, carrots, winter squash, local beef and poultry, cheese, maple syrup, local wine, fresh seafood, and more.
Exeter High School on Saturday, January 9 from 10am-2pm
Wentworth Greenhouse in Rollinsford on Saturday, January 23 from 10am-2pm
For a full list of participating farmers and food producers, along with a list of the locally grown foods that will be available, and a map for directions visit www.seacoasteatlocal.org |
Local Seafood - Native Shrimp...sustainable & delicious!
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Native shrimp are caught locally from December through May. This is the only time that the Yankee Fishermen's Co-op on Ocean Boulevard in Seabrook will sell "fresh off the boat" shrimp to the public. The shrimp catch is weather-dependent and is only sold when the boats come in to the dock between 5-5:30pm.
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| Yellow House "East": Food Creates Community |
Last year several people in Rye formed a poultry buying group with Yellow House Farm and farmers Joseph Marquette and Rob Gibson. Once a month throughout the summer and into the early winter, Joseph delivered heritage poultry to Mimi and Steve White's home in Rye.
As the months passed, a small community of locovores developed. Neighbors became friends and several decided to join forces with the Rye Energy Committee. Three of us serve on the committee as well as on the Rye Town CSA task force which is working to secure land in Rye for a town CSA. One has even taken over our new website. Please check it out at www.ryeturninggreen.com. You can now blog and keep us updated on your local foods activities.
Yellow House "East" continues! This past holiday season Joseph dropped off turkey, geese, chicken and duck. Several of us gathered to talk all things to do with poultry. At one point I was the only one in my kitchen who was not heavily into chicken raising! Lucky me. I buy my eggs from Jaci Grote and know of several others in Rye who now have fresh local eggs all year round.
The best part of the local food movement is the community that has grown up around it. We send each other recipes, we swap pickles, we give each other hints on pest control during the summer growing season. Some are even growing greens under "hoops" just like the White House.
Join us at Rye's Winter Market, January 16. You'll find lots of local foods and you will find a wonderful, supportive community.
Happy and a peaceful New Year to you all. Mimi White |
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Gardeners have been saving seed ever since we settled into one place and started growing our own food. Thanks to seed saving, and passing them down from one generation to the next, we have the heirloom seedsand plant varieties that are so prized today. It's only since the end of World War II that growers have had the option of buying affordable, high quality commercial seeds; before that, saving your own seeds or trading with neighbors was the only way to procure prospective plants.
Saving garden seeds at the end of each growing season can be a great cost saving measure and a way to duplicate last year's delectable harvest. It's also a good way to preserve plants that grow best in your own backyard. By carefully selecting individual plants that flourish in your garden and saving their seed, you can create strains that are well-adapted to local growing conditions.
Self-pollinated plants are the easiest to save and include: Beans, Chicory, Endive, Lettuce, Peas, Tomatoes. You can also save many heirloom flower seeds such as: cleome, foxgloves, hollyhock, nasturtium, sweet pea, and zinnia.
Be sure to participate in the seed exchange at the Rye Farmers' Market on Saturday, January 16th at the Rye Junior High School.
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| Rye Eats Local Bags |
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Buy your Rye Eats Local tote/grocery bags at the Rye Farmers' Markets.
Bright, bold, & available.
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Happy eating. See you at the Farmers' Market on Saturday, January 16th!
Mimi White & Tracy Ritzo
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January Recipe
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Cooked Fresh Native Shrimp |
Time: 15 minutes, plus 1 hour's refrigeration
3 tablespoons kosher salt or sea salt
2 pounds fresh native shrimp with heads on (about 80)
1/2 lemon
1 bay leaf
1 teaspoon black peppercorns
melted butter
1. Mix salt with 3 cups ice water in a bowl large enough to hold shrimp. Rinse shrimp, add them to salt water, cover and refrigerate 1 hour.
2. Bring 2 quarts water to a boil in a saucepan. Squeeze the lemon into water, then add the lemon to the pot, along with the bay leaf and peppercorns. Simmer for 10 minutes. Rinse shrimp, add to simmering water, and cook no more than 1 minute, until the water barely returns to a simmer. Drain shrimp
3. Serve shrimp hot, peel and eat with melted butter. Or peel to use in other recipes.
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