Seacoast Eat Local

We’re busy preparing for the Seacoast Eat Local Winter Farmers’ Market in Rollinsford next Saturday, where you’ll be able to stock up for the upcoming holidays. If you are still looking for a locally-raised turkey to grace your Thanksgiving table, check out our Facebook page for updates on availability. Here’s a listing of some of the places mentioned:

- Harrisons Poultry Farm, Candia

 

- Kellie Brook Farm, Greenland

 

- Kicking Horse Farm, Farmington

 

- Martha Bogart – Life is Sweet Baking, South Hampton

 

- Nippo Brook Farm, Barrington

 

- Sea View Farm, Rye

 

- Yellow House Farm, Barrington

 

A search of Seacoast Harvest also provides a list of local farms that may have turkey available. You may contact them directly for questions about type of turkey, availability, and pricing.

*Photograph by Robert Gibson, Yellow House Farm 

Debate and voting on The Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) are set to begin on the Senate floor this week. While the bill takes important steps to improve corporate food safety rules, it also affects small farms and processors that sell to restaurants, food co-ops, groceries, schools, wholesalers and at farm stands and farmers markets. Via CUESA:

Food Safety Action Alert

Debate and voting on The Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) is set to begin on the Senate floor on November 17th. It’s widely agreed that the bill takes important steps to improve corporate food safety rules, but some organizations, like the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC), believe that it shouldn’t set one-size-fits-all rules for both large and small farms and processors. Two amendments — the Manager’s Amendment and Tester-Hagan Amendment — on the other hand, could help create size-appropriate rules for these farms. Visit the NSAC site to learn more or take action.

 

Related: Grist recently hosted a roundtable of food safety and sustainability experts. It’s a four-part series-in-progress that has posed these two important questions so far: Do we really have a food safety crisis? and Will the Food Safety Modernization Act better protect us from contaminated food?

 

Note: Links via our Facebook page —  contact your local Senator and urge them to support the Tester-Hagen Amendment:

 - Senator Olympia Snowe, Maine

 

- Senator Susan Collins, Maine

 

- Senator Scott Brown, Massachusetts

 

- Senator John Kerry, Massachusetts

 

- Senator Judd Gregg, New Hampshire

 

- Senator Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire