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This month's tour:
BACON !
Monadnock & Sunapee Regions
Ava Marie's Chocolates
43 Grove Street, Peterborough, NH 866-924-5993
Chocolate covered bacon!
"Because life's too short for ordinary chocolate"
31 Clymers Dr, Harrisville, NH 03450
(603)827-3925 info@MayfairFarmNH.com
The pigs are primarily Old Spots, Tamworth and Chester White crosses. Piglets are weaned at about two months and spend as much time as conditions allow in the woods. There, they forage, romp and act like pigs, eating nuts and roots they find as well as non-GMO grains raised and milled specially for us.
Available at the Harrisville Farm Store, Monadnock Food Co-op
Unbridled Chocolates
222 West Street, Keene NH
603-357-4900
Habanero Chocolate Covered Bacon and Bacon Caramels - Soft organic caramel and crispy bacon.
In the business to bring their love of ingredients to people who are passionate about what they eat. Yes, they have won awards. Big deal. They intend to please more than the Judges... "Our best critics step up to the counter in the store every day!"
Keene, NH 603-209-4248
Bacon Jam - North Country Smokehouse peppered bacon simmered for hours with local maple syrup and sugar, caramelized onion, garlic, coffee and sometimes chipolte pepper, chocolate and/or bourbon. Available at catered events or by special order only.
Life is Sweet
32 Central Square, Keene, NH. 603-352-0900
Maple Bacon Cupcakes; yellow cupcake with maple buttercream frosting and topped with bacon. Made fresh daily.
Fred's Bacon
997 Old Walpole Road, Surry, NH 603-762-5453
79 Old Manning Hill Rd, Winchester, NH 03470
(603) 239-4397
Bacon, Ends & Pieces. They humanely care for and raise all natural, antibiotic, hormone free pork. All of their pigs are born and raised on the farm and live outside with shelter so they can enjoy the fresh air and sunlight. They have plenty of room to root and roam and grow well on excess milk produced from their cows. They are also helping them to reclaim old pastureland and make new pasture with the use of their strong noses!
663 Wentworth Rd, Walpole, NH 03608
Pasture-raised Heritage Breed Pigs: Certified GMO-free grain only-no antibiotics or hormones ever, continual access to lots of grass and forage and given the ability to be pigs.
Nitrate-free Bacon Thick Cut, maple cured, hickory smoked nitrate-free bacon. Canadian Bacon.Available at their Walpole Farm Store, On-line store or Home/Work delivery program.
800-258-4304 Claremont, NH
Applewood, fruitwood or cob smoked, Canadian, Cottage, Pea Meal, peppered, uncured and ends & pieces. 3 generations of authentic flavor. There's something about the rich aroma of applewood smoked or our cob smoked bacons' sizzling in a skillet that draws people to the kitchen faster than most anything else. They have received national acclaim from the New York Times, Saveur Magazine, and the finest hotels around the country for its hand-crafted, meaty flavor and a natural wood smoked scent that signals its supreme quality. The slabs are marinated for days in dark maple syrup brine and double smoked to create hearty, thick-cut bacon that's more boldly flavorful than you'd expect. They applewood or cob smoke their bacons' at low temperatures lazily.
available at: by mail order from Claremont, Hannah Grimes Marketplace, Monadnock Food Co-op, Hannafords
Next TOUR - Cheese!
The local area has SO many amazing cheese to offer - it will be difficult to choose. Join us, as we look to put together simple, tasty Localvore tours of the region. Forward your suggested topics or tours via email, Facebook , and Twitter.
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Featured Events:
Independent's Week and the Indie Challenge
Independent's Week is a time to celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit and the values that our locally owned businesses embody - and recognize their contributions to our community and local economy. Visit the Monadnock Buy Local website for updates and more information.
Take the Indie Challenge - Individuals who sign on to the challenge will try fulfilling all of their needs at locally owned, independent businesses for 1 week.
The 2015 Summit: Food, Mindfully
Wednesday, June 3 through Friday 5th
Downtown Brattleboro, VT.
The fifth annual Summit brings food into focus. Participate in a mindful exploration of the journey of food, from farming and food entrepreneurship to food systems to nourishment to food justice and policy. Learn more about the Slow Living Conference
Herb and Garden Day with the NH Herbal Network
Saturday June 6th 9AM -5PM, NH Audubon Center, Concord, NH
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.
Enjoy the Herbal Market Fair filled with herbal remedies, natural body care, books, artwork, jewelry, organic food, artisan crafts, plants from local growers, medicinal and culinary herbs, heirloom and rare varieties, flowers, and organic vegetable seedlings.
Sunday Socials Summer Concert Series
The Heritage Commission and the Keene Music Festival have partnered to put a summer concert series!
History, architecture and preservation talks will be part of the intermission. All proceeds from the series go to the restoration fund for the Summer Knight Chapel.
Saturday, May 31st 1-3PM - The Scott Mullett Jazz Trio - 82 Court Street, Keene.
Walpole Valley Farm - Farm Tours
June 1st, July 6th, August 3rd, September 7th, October 5th.
A highly educational tour of their 105-acre family owned and operated pasture based farm. Visit the animals, see their "chicken tractors" and "egg mobile" in action, view their historic three-story post and beam barn, learn about intensive rotational grazing, tour their no till vegetable garden, and more. Come with your camera and your questions. Learn how real food is grown! Reservations required.Visit Walpole Valley Farms for more information.
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 Buying Local Made Easy Bringing our Cheshire County Farmers fresh products to your local kitchen. Monadnock Menus aggregates and distributes locally produced food - creating a simpler way for buyers to purchase local.
Fresh, wholesome, local food is just a few clicks away! They deliver direct to your school, business, institution or restaurant.
Check out the products in the market and meet the people who grow and make them. Businesses can purchase a variety of products from multiple farmers at one time, simplifying the ordering and billing process.
The market is easy to use and keeps dollars in our community. By supporting our local farms, we help increase their viability and keep farm land in our region. If you would like to know more about becoming a buyer or producer for Monadnock Menus please contact Sara Lovitz by phone or email. Do you know of a business, school, institution or camp in our county where you'd like to see local food? Give Monadnock Menus a call or ask THE BUSINESS to use Monadnock Menus! coordinator @ monadnockmenus.org or 802 289 9440 or call the Conservation District at (603) 756 2988 x 116
The Monadnock Menus Market is a developing program launched by the Cheshire County Conservation District . Its purpose is to provide schools and other institutions throughout Cheshire County with easy access to foods grown and made in the Monadnock region.
Support for Monadnock Menus in 2015-17 is provided through the Cheshire Medical Center's Partners In Community Health agreement from the Center for Disease Control and the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. Funding for Monadnock Menus in 2014 was made possible in part with a Rural Business Enterprise Grant from USDA Rural Development.
Partners include Windham Farm & Food, Food Connects, Harlow Farm, and Neighbor Made of Keene. A non-profit service, Monadnock Menus facilitates direct farm to institution sales, supporting and encouraging local farmers and the local food movement. |
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Recipe
CANDIED BACON SALAD
Recipe adapted from Jamie Oliver
Serves 4-6
For creamy French Dressing
- 6 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 3 tablespoons white wine vinegar
- 1 heaped teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 1 heaped tablespoon natural yogurt
- sea salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- 12 slices of smoked streaky bacon
- 1 clove garlic, peeled
- 3 slices fresh white bread
- olive oil
- freshly ground black pepper
- 2 heaped tablespoons demerara (raw) sugar
- juice of 1 clementine
- 5 large handfuls mixed salad leaves, washed and spun dry
- Strawberries (or other fruit/berries as desired)
- 1 small bunch fresh mint, leaves picked
To make your dressing, put all the ingredients into a large serving bowl, whisk together, and season to taste. Put aside.
In a large frying pan on a medium heat, add the bacon slices and cook until lightly golden (but not to crispy), turning them every so often. Remove the bacon to a plate. Squash your garlic clove and add it to the pan, then turn the heat up a little and tear your bread into medium-sized chunks. Drop them into the pan so they suck up all the flavors and become crispy. (If your bacon didn't release a lot of fat and you think the bread needs a little help to crisp up, simply add a lug or two of olive oil). Add a pinch of black pepper and shake the bread around until crispy and golden, then remove to the plate with your bacon.
Wipe the pan clean with paper towel, then put the bacon back in with the sugar and the clementine juice. Concentrate on what you're doing, and make sure you don't touch or taste anything at any point because it will burn you. Stir everything around in the pan so the syrup starts to stick to the bacon. As soon as the bacon slices are perfectly caramelized and sticky, use tongs to carefully move them to a plate and leave to cool down for a minute. Whatever shape you leave the bacon in at this point is how it will set, so give the slices a bend or a twist. Peel the remaining clementines and slice them into rounds.
Grab your bowl of dressing and add your greens. Slice your strawberries, add your mint leaves, then use your hands to toss and dress everything thoroughly. Lightly toss your croutons through the salad and lay your candied bacon on top then pass the bowl around the table and let everyone serve themselves.
Wine suggestion:
Ingredient sourcing: Bacon: See tour locations above Greens, mint and garlic: Your local Farmer's Market
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Classifieds*
Need Egg Cartons?
Hannah Grimes Marketplace regularly has empty eggs cartons that are available for FREE to those that need/want them. Please contact the Marketplace at 603-352-6862 if you can use gently recycled egg cartons for re-use.
FREE Trees
Two Red Pine trees. Approx. 7ft tall - in need of a new home. Adopter will be responsible for removing the trees from the ground. To adopt or have questions, please contact Donna Weldon at donna@hannahgrimes or 352-5063
More produce than you can use?
Gleaning Program now available in the Monadnock Region - please contact tckgleaner@gmail.com for more information and to get involved.
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