Seacoast Eat Local

Interested in learning more about how Seacoast Eat Local is working to bring the use of Food Stamps to area farmers’ markets? If you work in healthcare, nutrition, or in the community with low income families, Seacoast Eat Local invites you to participate in a focus group this Saturday, March 26th at 11 a.m.

All states now use Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) — an electronic system that allows customers to use government-issued benefit debit cards to pay for food — to issue Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits (formerly known as food stamps). Although there is no requirement that farmers’ markets use EBT systems, doing so provides a great public benefit to those who otherwise don’t have access to fresh, healthy, local produce.

We will meet at the Winter Farmers’ Market in Rollinsford, giving participants the opportunity to see the farmers’ market in action. Bring your passion for a healthy Seacoast community and help us create a successful SNAP/EBT (Food Stamps) outreach program!

SNAP/EBT (Food Stamps) Focus Group 

• Place: Winter Farmers Market, Wentworth Greenhouses, 141 Rollins Rd, Rollinsford, NH (1 mile past Red’s Shoe Barn in Dover)

• Date: Saturday, March 26, 2011

• Time: 11:00 AM

• Directions & Parking: Additional parking is available at Salmon Falls Pottery, located right around the corner, with a free shuttle service that brings you directly to the Winter Farmers’ Market. For map & directions >

• RSVP & Contact: Sarah Jacobson, 607-275-7499 or TallyhoAlby@gmail.com

Put some spring in your step with a visit to the University of New Hampshire Macfarlane greenhouses during the annual Greenhouse Open House on Friday and Saturday, March 25th and 26th, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days. There’s no charge to attend, and you’ll find a lot to see and learn. The Open House features gorgeous plant displays, educational talks on many topics, plant sales, activities for children, and more:

Annual UNH Greenhouse Open House 2011

UNH Research Greenhouses, Durham, NH

Friday, March 25–Saturday, March 26, 2011

9 am–4 pm both days

Usher in spring with a visit to the University of New Hampshire Macfarlane greenhouses during the annual open house Friday and Saturday, March 25 and 26, 2011. This year’s event will again provide displays and plenty of information to help chase away winter blues and welcome spring. The greenhouses will be open from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. both days.

 

UNH staff and students will present colorful displays and educational lectures of interest to home gardeners and landscapers. Visitors can attend seminars on rain gardens, culinary herbs, and organic vegetable gardening. Garden show-quality displays will showcase sustainable landscaping, living walls, Mother Goose rhymes, and rain harvesting. Experts will be on hand to answer questions on encouraging native pollinators, how to attract butterflies, and carnivorous plants.

 

Additional displays include information on the N.H. Master Gardener program, sustainable greenhouse production, and much more. Publications by UNH authors also will be available for sale. Other open house activities include plant sales, greenhouse tours, and a coloring contest for children. The Thompson School Horticultural Club will host the Greenhouse Café, which helps fund their spring trip to Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania.

 

Coinciding with the open house on Saturday is the Little Royal Livestock show at the Skoglund Livestock Arena at UNH. This free event, open to the public, showcases students competing against one another for the best turned-out cows or horses. In addition, the Seacoast Home & Garden Show (http://www.homegardenflowershow.com/) is at the UNH Whittemore Center on Saturday.

 

The greenhouse open house is free and open to the general public. The UNH greenhouses are located off Main Street on the west end of Durham. Lectures will take place in Putnam Hall across the parking lot from the greenhouses.  For more information, please call 862-3200 or go to http://www.thompsonschool.unh.edu/events.

Download printable flyer > or brochure of times/events >