Seacoast Eat Local

The Newburyport Farmers’ Market will be open on Sundays from 10am-1pm through December 20 at its location at the Tannery Marketplace. Open rain or shine, but not snow !

A few more details on the  November 7th event being put together by the Peace and Social Concerns Committee of the Dover Friends Meeting:

Seacoast Summit on Sustainability: Greening our Communities

Saturday, November 7th, 9:15 am – 5:00 pm
Portsmouth Public Library, 175 Parrott Avenue, Portsmouth 03801
Free and open to all
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Tom Kelly, Director of Sustainability Programs, UNH

Nine workshops in three tracks (running simultaneously).

Food-focused workshops include:

10:30-12:00  An Inconvenient Food: The Link Between Animal Agriculture, Environmental Degradation, and Global Warming
12:00-1:00 Vegetarian Lunch.  Free and open to the public.
1:00-2:30 Panel:  Healthy Options for School Lunches

Moderator:  Harvey Zarren, MD, cardiologist
Panelists:  Pat Laska, Director, Portsmouth School Nutrition Program
Stacey Purslow, State Coordinator, Farm to School Program
Kathryn Strong, MS, RD, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

2:45-4:00  Vegetarian Nutrition

Presentation by Kathryn Strong, MS, RD

Other workshop tracts:

• Town/State Activities and Planning – Panelists include sustainability leaders from local towns
• Educating and Promoting Environmental Wisdom in Faith Communities

Sponsored by the Peace and Social Concerns Committee of the Dover Friends Meeting

For more information, please contact 603-580-1934 or 207-384-0048.

A recent article in the Bangor Daily News describes a new collaboration — MOOMilk or Maine’s Own Organic Milk Co. — that should benefit regional dairy farmers as well as consumers, and expand the options for home cheesemakers:

Last February, a group of Maine organic dairy farmers thought that their businesses as they knew them had come to an end. Citing a soft organic market, a depressed economy and the great distances to serve organic milk producers in far-flung Washington and Aroostook counties, 10 farms were given their pink slips by H.P. Hood Inc.

The farmers were flabbergasted. Each had a contract, and all said they had made substantial investments in their farms to convert to organic.

 But this is rural Maine, and with true Yankee ingenuity, the 10 farmers banded together to find a solution. Through a cooperative agreement among the farmers, private investors, Smiling Hill Farm in Westbrook, Oakhurst Dairy in Portland, the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association, the Maine Farm Bureau and the Maine Department of Agriculture, a new company has been launched: MOOMilkCo., short for Maine’s Own Organic Milk Co.

“We have created a company using all the different parts already existing in the state,” MOOMilk’s general manager, Bill Eldridge, said this week. “This is a real Maine story. I have been totally astounded as to the level of cooperation and partnership in this state.”

Milk should start appearing in stores in early November, taking only 96 hours to get from the cow to the shelf….

“This is a terrific example of what can happen when all members of the Maine agricultural family pull together,” said David Bright, a member of MOOMilk’s board of directors. “Beyond that, the support from the industry and the public has been outstanding.”

 

Every study done on the buying-local market, in Maine and nationally, has overwhelmingly revealed that when consumers can find local products, they will buy them to support local agriculture.

Quick on the heels of her cooking class fall schedule comes this great news:

Dear Friends,

You can now find me on the world wide web! Check out my new blog at www.traceymillerwellness.com.  Today I’m featuring a recipe for Butternut Apple Soup!

I’ll continue to feature weekly recipes and tips for menu planning and some of the latest news about healthy eating, as well as interviews with moms, doctors, grocery store owners, butchers, farmers, scientists and even food companies. 

You can find all  my class descriptions and upcoming events, as well as more detailed information about my other services. This fall I have classes scheduled in Wellesely, Massachusetts and in the Seacoast area of New Hampshire.

I hope you’ll stop by once in awhile and see what’s cooking.  Please make sure to sign up for my online newsletter, “Fresh Food” when you visit the site.

Cheers!

Tracey Osborne Miller
Holistic Health Counselor

www.traceymillerwellness.com

From the community group Creating a Peaceful World by Sustaining our Future, a workshop that includes a track on food and sustainability, and features information about school nutrition: 

Seacoast Summit on Sustainability: Greening our Communities Sat. Nov. 7, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm 

Become more informed on sustainability, learn how to take action to green our communities and prepare to sustain ourselves in the future, given the realities of climate change. 

Keynote speaker:  Tom Kelly, Director of Sustainability Programs at UNH-Durham.  3 consecutive workshops in 3 areas: 1) Food, school nutrition and sustainability  2) Town/state Activities and Planning and 3) Educating and Promoting Sustainability in Faith Communities. 

Vegetarian lunch will be served, free and open to the public.  Sponsors include the Peace and Social Concerns Committee of the Dover Friends Meeting, the Green Sanctuary Team of the Durham Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Seacoast Peace Response, the Interfaith Sustainability Team and the Seacoast NAACP.  Information 603-580-1934 or 207-384-0048.

Tracy Miller has announced her fall schedule! Contact her at tosbornemiller@yahoo.com or 603-380-1080 for more information and to make reservations:

Dear Friends,

Back to your kitchens!  We’ve had the summer off enjoying fresh fruits and vegetables and cooking on the grill, but it’s now time for soups and roasts and purees from the fall harvest! Warm up your kitchen with some new ideas for sustainable, local and organic eats. Come hungry and join other women looking for some healthy alternatives to standard fare. I’m offering classes in Portsmouth, Dover and Hampton.

My schedule of classes in the Seacoast area is below.  Please contact me at tosbornemiller@yahoo.com or 603-380-1080 if you want more information or would like to register for a class.

Seacoast Schedule of Cooking &  Wellness Classes

(All classes are held from 7:00 – 9:00 pm. Location is at local residences and will be given out when your RSVP.)

October 14:   Sugar Blues: The Sweet American Addiction (Portsmouth )
(with Seacoast Mother’s Association)

October 15:   Thinking Outside the Box: Wholesome Breakfasts and Lunches for Kids (Dover )

October  20:  The Fall Harvest: Salads, Sides, Soups & Snacks!  (Hampton)

October 22:  Boosting Your Child’s Immune System. Dr. Margaux French is a board-certified naturopathic doctor, Giving Tree, (Portsmouth)

November 19:  Back to the Basics: Whole Grains, Beans, and Nuts (Portsmouth ) (W/ Seacoast Mother’s Association)

December 10: One-Pot Wonders! (Portsmouth ) (W/ Seacoast Mother’s Association)

November 5: One-Pot Wonders! (Dover )

Class fees are $40 with special discounts offered if you sign up for a series of classes.

RSVP to tosbornemiller@yahoo.com, 603-380-1080

Willow Pond CSA Dinner at Apple Annie, 7:00 Friday October 16, 2009

Prepared by Chef Ted McCormack, for reservations email: crazylucie@msn.com

Corn and Kale Soup

A thin polenta soup with garlic and kale garnished with roasted corn and chilies

Apple and Spinach (or Escarole) Salad

with shredded carrots, cranberries, and cider dressing

Kellie Brook Farm Chicken Saltimbocca

Roasted chicken with bacon in white wine over mushroom risotto

Or
Vegetable Torta

A double crust deep dish wheat dough pie layered with Willow Pond Farm vegetables and roasted garlic mascarpone cheese

Pumpkin Cannoli

Classic Italian pastry stuffed with ricotta, maple syrup & the NH State Fruit

$60 per person, limited seating available.

Fundraising Harvest Dinner includes Apple Annie Cider, local wine , coffee or tea. Dinner served upstairs in the Barn.

The wonderful Northwood Farmers’ Market is moving indoors to hold an additional 3 markets:

It’s not over yet! The Northwood Farmers Market is moving indoors for three “off season” markets at the Masonic Lodge right next to the municipal lot (Rts. 4, 202/9 and Rt. 43 at the traffic lights) where we have been reveling in good local products all summer. Our local farms still have fall produce, there is still jam and salsa, wine and soaps, eggs and wool and more, all local, all fresh.

Come support your neighbors, meet friends and enjoy some more of the Northwood Farmers market – INDOORS!

9:00 a.m. to noon

Saturday Oct. 24th

Saturday Nov. 7th

Saturday Nov. 21st

* Seacoast Eat Local’s Winter Farmers’ Market schedule has been set! We’ll be hosting 11 markets in all, 6 in Rollinsford in collaboration with The Wentworth Greenhouses, and 5 at Exeter High School. All 11 markets take place on Saturdays from 10am-2pm. The dates are: November 21, December 5, December 12, December 19, January 9, January 23, February 13, February 27, March 13, March 27, and April 10. More details up on our website soon!

From the Seacoast Growers’ Association:

For the first time, the Exeter Farmers’ Market will stay open to the end of October. Until Thursday, Oct. 29, you can find over 30 vendors at Swasey Parkway, from 2:15 to 6 p.m. every week.

Portsmouth, host to the Seacoast’s first Seacoast farmers’ market back in 1977, is the both the largest and the latest running of all. Its final day for 2009 won’t be until Saturday, Nov. 7. In the meantime, over 40 vendors of local produce, meats, dairy products, seafood, gourmet prepared foods and a variety of fine crafts are set up at City Hall every Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. All markets are open rain or shine.

The Exeter and Portsmouth Farmers’ Markets, as well as Durham (Mondays), Hampton and Kingston (Tuesdays), and Dover (Wednesdays) are coordinated by Seacoast Growers’ Association. For more information, including maps to each market and a complete list of all vendors, visit www.seacoastgrowers.org.

The Dover Cassily Community Garden is offering two workshops this coming weekend, both free and open to the public!

Garlic Planting Workshop on Saturday, October 17, 10-2pm

The Dover Cassily Community Garden is hosting a garlic workshop on Saturday, October 17th from 10am until 2pm. In this hands-on workshop, we will plant garlic cloves and learn how to grow and harvest garlic.

Sheet Mulching Workshop on Sunday, October 18, 10-2pm

The Dover Cassily Community Garden is hosting a sheet mulching workshop on Sunday, October 18th from 10am until 2pm. In this hands-on workshop, we will create new garden beds for the Dover Cassily Community Garden to use next spring. Sheet mulching is a quick and easy way to create gardens from lawns without the back-breaking work of digging or rototilling. Furthermore, sheet mulching can be done with readily available, inexpensive (or free) materials.

Both workshops are free and open to the public. Whether you are new to gardening or an experienced gardener, please join us in expanding the growing potential of our garden. Community members of all ages are welcome. Please provide your own food and drink. Registration is not required. Donations welcome. The garden is located off of Hillside Dr. near Beckwith Park. For more information or directions, please contact doverccgarden@yahoo.com.