January 28, 2010 by Sara Zoe.

New classes from Tracy Miller:

Nutrition Boot Camp 2010

Designed for moms to help them understand the latest nutrition research, food myths and diets to see what foods and eating plan will work best for you family. You’ll also learn time-efficient tools for menu planning, food preparation and staying on a healthy eating plan and how to eat  locally, reasonably and seasonably!

Dates:

Downtown Portsmouth Nutrition Boot Camp: Starts February 9^nd (Tuesdays 7:30-9pm) Fee: $125
(Dates: February 9, 16, March 2,9)

South Berwick Nutrition Boot Camp: Starts March 3^rd (Thursdays 7-8:30pm) Fee: $125
(Dates: March 4,11,18,25)

Boost Your Child’s Immune System!  Downtown Portsmouth, Thursday, February 11, 7:00 – 9:00 pm

Your child’s immune system is developing, so now is the time to build their resilience to help them avoid common childhood illnesses, like colds, flus, ear infections, and allergies.  Learn how the body protects itself against nasty colds and flus and the most important nutrients to help you boost your child’s immune system. We’ll try some new recipes including juice boosts, stocks and soups and other herbs which build your immune system.

 

For more details go to: www.traceymillerwellness.com or contact Tracey Miller at 603-380-1080 or tracey@traceymillerwellness.com.

 

Instructor Tracey Miller is a health & wellness coach offering nutrition courses, wellness seminars and cooking classes for individuals, families, and businesses. In addition she is a health communication specialist and freelance writer and has worked with the World Bank, the Food Studies Institute and other organizations. She received her training at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in NYC. 

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January 28, 2010 by Sara Zoe.

Thistleridge Farm will hatch your chicks, or rent you an incubator so you can hatch your own! Call Sherri at the phone number listed below:

Sherri Towle

397 Tolend Road

Dover, NH 03820

phone: (603) 740-9332

email: thistleridgefarm @ yahoo . com

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January 28, 2010 by Sara Zoe.

Kathleen Merrigan, U.S. deputy secretary of agriculture, will discuss the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Know your Farmer, Know your Food program at 10 a.m. Friday in DeMeritt Hall, Room 240, at the University of New Hampshire. The speech is free and open to the public.

The Know your Farmer, Know your Food initiative emphasizes the need to reconnect producers and consumers. The effort builds on the 2008 Farm Bill, which provides for increases and flexibility for USDA programs to promote local foods. Consumer demand for locally grown food in the United States is expected to rise from an estimated $4 billion in 2002 to as much as $7 billion by 2012.

Merrigan’s visit is part of a national tour of colleges and universities with the goal of engaging the next generation of farmers, ranchers and consumers in a national conversation on how to develop local and regional food systems to support small and mid-sized farms. Visit www.usda.gov/knowyourfarmer.

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January 28, 2010 by Sara Zoe.

You’ll be hearing a lot about Seacoast Harvest from us in the coming months. We update it every year to make sure it is the most accurate guide to the farms, farmers’ markets, farm stands, and CSA’s of Rockingham, Strafford, and York counties. A dozen volunteers, including three fantastic interns!, got together the other evening to strategize and plan for this project.

Farmers - our first efforts to help update your listings should be in your email inboxes right now if you were listed in Seacoast Harvest last year. Please respond as soon as you can! If you weren’t listed last year but meet the criteria to be listed this year, you can email foodguide@seacoasteatlocal.org for more information. Listings are free, and we give Seacoast Harvest out for free!

So how do we make it go with all this free-ness? Support from a wide range of community members, both individual donations and sponsorships.  If you’d like to learn more about sponsorship, email jeff@seacoasteatlocal.org, or donate online via paypal:

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