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May 2015

Local Food System Innovations
We're highlighting a few innovative ways to get more local food from the farm to you -- efforts happening in New Hampshire and across the globe.  Have an innovative local food system program, initiative, or idea to share? Please share it with us.

Also, since spring has SPRUNG, we compiled a list of upcoming opening Farmers' Market Days in New Hampshire.  We hope you'll make a plan to attend one or more Opening Days this May through July.

Congratulations to our NH Farm and Forest Expo Raffle Prize winners:
  • Debra P. (she won New Hampshire: From Farm to Kitchen)
  • Julie B. (she won New Hampshire: From Farm to Kitchen, Cooking with Fire, and New Hampshire Women Farmers: Pioneers of the Local Food Movement)
Enjoy the season!



GrainsCheck Out a Farmers' Market on Their Opening Day 
Help farmers jump-start their market season - attend a Farmers' Market Opening Day near you. Please confirm the opening day dates before you go!

May 21st
Lebanon Farmers' Market

May 23rd
New Durham Farmers' Market

June 1st

Durham Farmers' Market
Hampton Falls Farmers' Market

June 2nd
Northwood Farmers' Market

June 3rd
Canterbury Community Farmers Market
Dover Farmers' Market
Hanover Area Farmers' Market

June 4th
Laconia Main Street Outdoor Marketplace
Wolfeboro Area Farmers' Market

June 5th
Weare Farmers' Market

June 6th
Contoocook Farmers' Market
Open Air Market of New Hampton

June 7th
Littleton Farmers' Market

June 9th
Wilton Farmers' Market

June 16th
Bedford Farmers' Market
Greenland Farmers' Market

June 17th
Derry Community Farmers Market
Merrimack Farmers' Market

June 18th
Lisbon Farmers' Market

June 20th
Bethlehem Farmers' Market
New Boston Farmers' Markets

June 21st
Laconia Farmers' Market
Manchester Farmers' Market
Nashua Farmers' Market
Wentworth Greenhouses Summer Farmers' Market

June 22nd
Penacook Village Farmers' Market

June 24th
Rye Farmers' Market

June 25th
Berlin Farmers' Market

June 27th
Wilmot Farmers' Market

July 2nd
Franklin Farmers' Market

See details about all Summers Farmers' Markets
at NH Department of Ag and NH Magazine
(Including markets that have already opened for the season!)

InnovateFrom Farm To...Desk?
Originally Posted By NHPR 
From farm to desk, farm to library, even farm to x-ray room, Local Foods Plymouth is narrowing the distance between what grows in local fields and what appears on local tables.




Photo from NHPR 
Originally Posted By Seacoast Online
Winnacunnet High School and Oyster River High School were two of nine schools involved in the "Fish to School" project. Doris Demers is cafeteria director for the Oyster River School District, which includes Mastaway Elementary, Moharimet Elementary, and both Oyster River middle and high schools.  She has been working with local farms over the last two years to establish a Farm to School program, where local produce is served as a part of the school lunch program. Demers was excited by the opportunity to include locally sourced fish.
Originally Posted on ARExA
The Keene Energy Agriculture Project (KEAP) is a unique concept in resource up-cycling - an economically, environmentally, and socially exceptional business model. Connecting established technologies and best-of-breed equipment, Integrated Food Energy Systems (IFES) solve a pressing and increasingly global need. The KEAP facility will capture and transform waste resources to build and power local food and energy systems.

Image posted on ArexA 
West Louisville FoodPort
From Seed Capital KY 
The FoodPort project is a food-centric economic and community development engine that will create jobs for West Louisville residents, enhance the built environment and green space of surrounding disinvested neighborhoods, enable existing small businesses to grow, increase farmers' income as they increase their market channels, enable new food businesses to take their first steps, and provide educational opportunities around eating and agriculture.
TEDxManhattan 2015 Highlights: Changing the Way We Eat
TEDxManhattan 2015 Highlights: Changing the Way We Eat
TEDxManhattan 2015 Highlights: Changing the Way We Eat
Biomimicry Global Design Challenge: Redesigning Our Food System
From the Biomimicry Institute

Food. It's not just the way we fuel our bodies, but perhaps the most intimate way we interact with our environment. Everything we eat comes from nature, and begins as something growing on land or at sea. While our food is rooted in a vast chain of ecological relationships, it's also part of an increasingly complex and problematic system of our own design. It's a system that has resulted in depleted soils, landfills full of packaging waste and uneaten food, and dependence on expensive inputs, like chemical fertilizers-all while nearly 1 billion people go hungry every day. From seed (or sea) to table and everywhere in between, there's a lot we need to improve.

Know Your Farmers: The Rocks Estate, Bethlehem
By Meghan McCarthy McPhaul

The Rocks Estate in Bethlehem is pushing the "Buy Local" movement beyond the traditional farm fare of vegetables, meat, and dairy. The main crop at The Rocks is Christmas trees, which are both locally grown and farm fresh, but The Rocks also provides agri- and eco-tourism opportunities, along with year-round educational programs in its capacity as the North Country Conservation and Education Center for the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests. Read more about The Rocks Estate.
From Farm to Kitchen: Dandelion and Bacon Salad       
From the New York Times
 
A great way to use up your lawn's baby dandelion leaves. Avoid any plants that may have been sprayed and wash the leaves well before using.

Try this recipe: Dandelion and Bacon Salad
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6th Annual Herb & Garden Day: 
It Takes a Village
June 6, 9am - 5pm

Enjoy a fun day of gardening and herbal workshops, delicious food, and amazing vendors.

Herbal educators and seasoned growers from all walks of life come together to share their unique knowledge and build upon a tapestry of age old wisdom about herbs and natural medicine, native plants, organic gardening, permaculture, traditional homesteading practices, beekeeping, brewing, and the power of nature to heal.

With more than 200 attendees, including vendors, sponsors, presenters, and volunteers who take part in this event each year, it truly takes a village to create a successful event.  Cost: $35. View details.