Recently the New Hampshire Farms Network received a query from Patti Lacasse of Canaan, New Hampshire.  The answer from Gail McWilliam Jellie follows.
Patti wrote: 
“Four years ago I opened my small farm business selling herbs and perennial plants, and fresh cut and pick your own herbs all grown with organic methods (but not cert. org.).
My question [...]

From Lynda Brushett:
NH Cooperative Development Institute 
The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) invites proposals for the 2009 Farmers Market Promotion Program (FMPP) grant program. The Notice of Funds Available for the FMPP was published in the Federal Register on March 13, 2009. This is the fourth year of the FMPP grant program, which is authorized under [...]

Mary Anne Broshek believes it was her mother’s longing for the farm where she had grown up that led her parents in 1951 to buy the farm in Andover which has been Broshek’s home for nearly 20 years. Broshek spent childhood summers at the farm, until her family moved there fulltime in 1969. Broshek moved [...]

Testing May Help Verify Organic Foods
by Henry Fountain, The New York Times
Published: March 3, 2009
Organic foods command premium prices at the supermarket, and wherever there is extra money to be made there is a possibility of fraud. Most organic producers adhere to certification standards, but there is little if any product monitoring at the retail [...]