Last year (2008) was the first year that Sunday Mountain Maple Farm, a New Hampshire Farm of Distinction, in Orford, NH used the system of reverse osmosis to speed up the boiling down of its sap and 2008 was the year they received the Carlisle Trophy ( Lawrence A. Carlisle, a former commissioner of New [...]
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December 9th, 2009
As we were polishing off the last of the leftovers from the Thanksgiving feast, I read with interest a New York Times feature on the most searched-for recipes online in the run-up to turkey day. The popular website www.allrecipes.com analyzed the most-used search terms across the country and state-by-state.
At 10:00 am on Tuesday, December 8, 2009, the Milk Producers Emergency Relief Fund Board is holding a public forum on the Keep Local Farms Initiative (www.keeplocalfarms.org). It will be held in Representatives’ Hall of the New Hampshire State House in Concord, NH.
The forum offers a question and answer opportunity for legislators, farmers, media, local food and land [...]
There are nine Seacoast Eat Local winter markets remaining in the 2009-2010 season ensuring that you can buy food from your local farmers all winter long. All markets are on Saturdays, 10am-2pm. For complete information see [...]
Lorraine S. Merrill
NH Department of Agriculture, Markets, & Food Weekly Bulletin
(Excerpted from the Commissioner’s column)
With the horse long out of the barn, major media outlets recently agreed to stop using the swine word when talking about the flu pandemic. Pork producers have been vying with dairy farmers as this year’s biggest agricultural money-losers—with boneless center-cut [...]
In New Hampshire: From Farm to Kitchen, Helen Brody profiles 30 of the Granite State’s most important working farms. Quick and easy recipes using the farm’s raw ingredients make the direct and often overlooked connection between the farmer who grows the food and the cook who prepares it.