May 21, 2008 by Sara Zoe.

Rachel Forrest of Seacoastonline.com/food wrote a wonderful profile of Yellow House Farm that appears in today’s Portsmouth Herald food section:

“At Yellow House Farm in Barrington, the air is filled with a cacophony of bird calls. The high squawk of a guinea hen, the honk of a Shetland goose, the cluck of a La Fleche chicken.

Some wander around in all their glorious plumage, a huge tom turkey puffs up to what seems like twice his size, and the shimmer on the feathers of the black Cayuga ducks becomes iridescent in the sunlight.

These are all breeds of poultry that might have disappeared if not for people like Joseph Marquette and Robert Gibson, who are saving them for us and for future generations.”

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May 21, 2008 by Sara Zoe.

Remember the baby lettuce in the greenhouse? Here it is growing bigger in the fields of Meadow’s Mirth Farm in Stratham.

You can buy their tender fresh organic lettuce at the Portsmouth Farmers’ Market on Saturdays (get there early!). Other fresh veggies for sale at the market these days: bok choi, green garlic, spring onions, arugula, salad mix, radishes, and more every week as the weather warms and the days get longer.

And here is some of this year’s garlic crop, which will be harvested in mid-July and then cured for a few weeks so that you can store it all winter. Between now and then we’ll have green garlic and garlic scapes!

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