If you weren’t among the lucky to attend the January 24th workshop held at McIntosh culinary school, organized by Wendy Berry of [1] Lasting Legacy Farm and other local farmers, here are two blogs that do a great job sharing and summarizing:

[2] Living the Local Life

[3] What Did She Do Today?

Virginia of Living the Local Life also linked to the blog [4] Save McIntosh. We are about to lose a really valuable part of our community, just when it seems that we are turning the tide in changing our food system to a more sustainable, self-sufficient, local one. McIntosh culinary school has played a very valuable part in educating students in a way that exposes them to these ideas and connections - they aren’t just learning to cook with halfway processed food.

I believe the writer of the Save McIntosh blog has the right idea - McIntosh could and should be part of our community college system. As an educator in the public school system for the last 8 years, I know that students need diverse, local, and financially reasonable options. Community colleges are a great place for students of all ages to reasonably get great educations and make the kind of investments in themselves that will have value for the long term.

[5] Save McIntosh suggests that we write letters to our representatives and media outlets, and I agree. But I also urge all that care about this issue to write our state community college system.

Letters are more effective than email:

Chancellor - Dr. Richard Gustafson

26 College Drive, Concord NH 03301

But if email is all you have time for, the emails of the assistant chancellor, etc. are [6] listed on their website >