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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The question of eating or canning tomatoes from plants infected with the late blight fungus has been frequently asked question this summer. I’ve compiled information from colleagues and food safety experts from states experiencing the late blight epidemic. Healthy, un-blemished fruit can be safely eaten or canned. Canning should be done immediately after harvest because [...]
Citizen’s Guide to Restoring Our Local Foods, Farms and Independence by Jeremy Lougee
The New Hampshire Coalition for Sustaining Agriculture is an informal network of organizations and individuals dedicated to enhancing the social, economic and environmental sustainability of agriculture in New Hampshire.
Labor Day Weekend On the Farm
Labor Day invokes a lot of jokes among farmers.While neighbors and nonfarming friends and relatives get away someplace for the last long weekend of the summer,most farmers are working hard.They are hurrying to get hay in,getting equipment ready to chop corn,and milking and caring for livestock. They are picking apples [...]
Governor Lynch has sent a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack requesting a “Secretarial Disaster Designation for farmers with production losses in hay and other crops in all ten New Hampshire counties.” The letter states that “The disaster period began in early June and continues to date.” USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA)state officials are [...]
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.