August 30, 2008 by Sara Zoe.

HARVEST HELP WANTED at Apple Annie  (a small, low-spray orchard in Brentwood)

* Picking

* Cider-making

* Drop-collecting (2 hr. periods)

Hours, days flexible to fit your schedule. Pay to be arranged.

No experience required, but be prepared for hard physical work in all kinds of weather.

CALL 778-8881

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May 7, 2008 by Sara Zoe.

Get acquainted with the farm-fresh food scene on the Seacoast! Local vegetable growers Kate Donald and Audrey Gerkin will lead this workshop on buying locally grown foods, eating with the seasons and supporting local farms. Find out about local farmstands, farmers’ markets and CSAs that offer fresh vegetables, fruit, dairy, eggs, meat, honey and other farm products. Join a discussion about eating seasonally, living locally, growing your own food, and preserving the harvest for winter months. Learn about some exciting local initiatives including Seacoast Eat Local, Slow Food Seacoast and NH Eat Local Week.
By eating a little bit closer to home, you can reduce your carbon footprint, support local farms, and enjoy all the benefits of local, seasonal, fresh, nutritious food.
Kate Donald is the farmer at Willow Pond Community Farm, a certified organic vegetable farm in Brentwood that provides CSA shares to 70 local families.
Audrey Gerkin is a local food advocate trying to balance sustainability and feeding a hungry family of five. She is also an assistant farmer at Willow Pond Community Farm.

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April 10, 2008 by Sara Zoe.

Alert blogger Jeff mentioned this new blog the other day, but here is their official press release:

UNH LAUNCHES “DISCOVER(ING) SUSTAINABILITY” BLOG

 

DURHAM, N.H. – The University of New Hampshire, recognized as a higher education leader in sustainability, is taking its ideas to the blogosphere. The new blog discoversustainability.org, launched recently by the University Office of Sustainability, aims to share UNH’s commitment to being a sustainable learning community while helping readers discover how sustainability connects us all.

 

“The blog title – “Discover(ing) Sustainability” – says it all,” says Sara Cleaves, associate director of the University Office of Sustainability (UOS) and one of the blog’s authors. “We see sustainability as seeing things whole and acting accordingly. It’s highly interdisciplinary and relies on connections and conversation, all of which we hope to foster with this blog.”

 

Currently authored by several UOS and communications staff at UNH, Discover(ing) Sustainability will seek voices from around the university, including students, researchers, and administrators. Recent posts have highlighted a “green cuisine” gourmet dinner at UNH, research related to climate change and clean water, and a recent award to UNH’s Wildcat Transit. The blog also brings sustainability trends in higher education and in the news media to light.

 

Visit the blog at http://discoversustainability.org.

 

UNH, home of the nation’s first endowed office of sustainability in higher education, is a leader in conserving energy, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and integrating sustainability throughout its curricula, operations, research, and engagement efforts. Committed to being a climate protection campus that pursues a sustainable energy future through emissions reduction policies, practices, research, and education, UNH has earned several awards for its sustainability initiatives, which range from composting and supporting local, sustainable agriculture to using compressed natural gas and biodiesel-powered vehicles, and being the first in the nation to receive an EPA Energy Star building rating for residence halls. Discover the sustainable learning community at UNH at www.sustainableunh.unh.edu.

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February 22, 2008 by Sara Zoe.

What we are seeing here on the Seacoast with delicious local dairy products from farms like Brookford Farm, in Rollinsford, NH is also happening throughout New England - instead of trying to survive by competing with generic milk, these dairies are doing what comes naturally to them: creating and selling delicious and unique products, on smaller scales and much more locally.

Read: The Dairies Are Half-Pint, but the Flavor Isn’t, New York Times >

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January 14, 2008 by Sara Zoe.

An Invitation to a Women’s Retreat

at Lasting Legacy Farm, Barrington, NH

Saturday, January 26th ~ From 10 am to 4 pm

~ Give a gift to yourself and spend some time in an intimate setting with women in your community

~ The day will include workshops presented by four local women and a scrumptious lunch

~Workshops~

The Sugar Blues - Alison Kober Dean from Inside Out Nutrition, Holistic Health Counselor

Better Foods, Better Environment, Better You – Wendy Berry from Lasting Legacy Farm, Provides Naturally Raised Meats to the Community

Nurture Yourself in Nature - Debra Marcotte, Graduate from Institute of Natural Learning, Vermont

Positive and Powerful Intentions – Sue Stibler from Inner Peace Healing Arts, Intregates mind, body, emotion, and spiritual healing, to her clients

Please register early as enrollment is limited to ten women

You may pre-register by e-mailing Wendy at wberry AT llfarm.net

Cost is $25, to be paid in full upon registering

Presenter Bios

Alison Kober Dean is a holistic health counselor who strives to be a personal advocate for her clients. What began as a personal journey has become a business - Inside Out Nutrition. Her goal is to help people to make healthy, nourishing decisions about their diets that will enable them to live a more balanced, energetic and fulfilling life. At this retreat, she will be speaking about the Sugar Blues and why women are so prone to them.

Sue Stibler is a licensed independent clinical social worker and Inter-nationally registered yoga teacher. She assists her clients to integrate mind, body, emotional and spiritual healing through her business - Inner Peace Healing Arts. She will be presenting a workshop on creating Positive and Powerful Intentions for our lives.

Wendy Berry and her husband Jon began Lasting Legacy Farm because they wanted to provide quality food for their children. Their family project has evolved into a full time business, providing naturally grown meats for their customers. Their venture is ever-expanding to provide more local products for the community. Wendy will be speaking at this retreat about the foods for our own health as well as our planet.

Debra Marcotte is a recent graduate of the Community Nature Awareness Program at the Institute for Natural Learning in Vermont.Her focus is to help children and adults develop a renewed sense of place by employing the core routines of nature awareness in daily life. At this retreat, she will be speaking about those core routines and their benefits for our physical and mental well being.

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November 18, 2007 by Sara Zoe.

Kim of Yankee Food drove a ways to come to our Holiday Farmers’ Market yesterday, and then wrote a great write up with great pictures.

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September 4, 2007 by Erin.

I’ve completed four days of local-only food. I’ve been getting berries and veggies from Tuttle’s (they have quite a bit of their home-grown veggies on the shelves now), Barker’s Farm (on Route 33), picked up some milk and cream from Philbrick’s (they carry the Harris glass bottle dairy) and snipped some mint from my front yard. I ordered a 5lb bag of the Wood Prairie whole wheat flour (and made a leaden loaf of 100% whole wheat bread…I actually do know better than to do that, it was just an experiment). I have some local butter, cheese, honey, and maple syrup. I’m picking up fish tomorrow. Oh, and I harvested my own sea salt.

I only have myself to feed, but it’s amazing how much forethought it’s been taking. Right now, at 7:30 at night, I need to consider tomorrow’s breakfast. Defrost some berries? Boil potatoes? Start another round of bread? If I’m not at home for lunch, I’ll need to bring something along. Unfortunately, it feels like a bit of a chore, but I know it will get easier as I grow accustomed to my new rhythm.

On the delicious side of local food, I made a great ratatouille last night with gorgeous tomatoes, eggplant, onion, zucchini, and summer squash (substituting local butter for the olive oil) , a pretty salad with shell beans, and berries with maple-sweetened whipped cream. I’m making vichyssoise later this week.

I’m going to try to go as long as possible with 100% local food. I think next week I’ll consider what exceptions I may make (tea, cinnamon, white flour, and chocolate come to mind). I also need to gauge how reasonable it is to do drive all about to gather this awesome food, as it’s the environmental aspect of this challenge that I love. I’ve already learned a lot, I only wish my schedule would allow me to get to any of the farmer’s markets.

Hope everyone else in the Challenge is feeling nourished and proud.

Happy eating!

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