Nottingham Farmers Market Opens June 2nd!

Looking forward to our Opening Day on Sunday, June 2nd! Below is a list of vendors who will join us this season:

The Root Seller (produce and maple)
Saddleback Mountain Farm (organic produce)
Our Place Farm (pasture-raised beef)
Nielson Road Farm (organic produce)
Montminy's Farm (produce and eggs)
Cracked an Egg Farm (eggs, poultry, meat)
Elderberry Acres (produce, honey, and jams)
Henwyn Farm (pasture-raised pork)
Stage Road Gardens (plants, cut flowers, fruit)
Solidago Farm (wool and fiber goods-special events only)

Berry Bogg Farm Plant Sale

Berry Bogg Farm is selling fruit bushes this coming weekend!

Don't miss our annual plant sale of two year old blueberries, raspberries, blackberries and peach trees which will take place this year on May 4 and May 5 from 9am to 2pm. We also plan on having a limited number of beautiful hanging annual plants and potted herbs just in time for Mother's Day. 

Get ready for the market opening!

Yes, it's that time again!  Winter is over and the Northwood Farmers Market will be opening on Thursday, May 9th from 3:00-6:30 pm!  We're looking forward to seeing you there!

It's maple syrup season!

This coming weekend is the 17th Annual NH Maple Weekend, so be sure to look around and find your local maple syrup producers.  Don't forget Northwood's Sugarmomma! There's a list here of the many maple producers around the state.

Other local producers are:

Comte Family Farm/Root Seller
Dan Comte
13 Nielson Road
Nottingham, NH
603-942-1297
e-mail:comte.danATgmail.com

Folsom's Sugar House Brian & Sue Folsom 130 Candia Rd., Chester, NH 03036 603-887-3672 Visit our website

Setting the table

Your blogger was looking for more information about a bill introduced by Martha Fuller Clark in the NH Senate this session to establish a Granite State Farm to Plate program, and came upon this great article from last summer.

It starts like this:

Our nation is in the midst of the most widespread and devastating drought it has experienced in 70 years. So far in 2012, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated some 1,369 counties across 31 states as disaster areas.
The majority of those states are in the South, West and Midwest; the Northeast has mostly been spared of the ruin. But, since more than 90 percent of the food we eat in New Hampshire is produced in other states—including grain to feed our livestock—the drought is still taking a huge toll on our food supply.
“Basically, half the country has declared disaster, including large swaths of the grain-producing regions. That’s a major concern for New Hampshire farmers and New Hampshire eaters,” said agriculture commissioner Lorraine Stuart Merrill.

Read the rest while you're looking at your seed catalogues.

Update: and here's some information from the Vermont Farm to Plate program.

Granite State Future Outreach Event

Want to talk about what you want to see in NH's future? Here's the place this Saturday.
SRPC Granite State Future Wentworth Greenhouse Farmer's Market Outreach Event
Sat, January 26, 10am – 2pm
Wentworth Greenhouse, 141 Rollins Road, Rollinsford, NH

Master Plan: Agriculture and Related Issues

The Northwood Planning Board invites you to discuss Agriculture and Related Issues at its January 10 work session at the Community Center on Main Street at 6:30 pm. The board decided to address agriculture in more depth since it has received some input on agriculture from its visioning sessions and the community survey responses as part of its Master Plan Update review. The public is encouraged to attend to listen, provide input, and take part in the discussion.

The board’s Master Plan Update work session schedule has been revised as follows:

Economic Development, Income & Employment will be discussed on March 14, 2013 (no change)

Transportation will be discussed on April 11, 2013

Population and Housing will be discussed on May 9, 2013.

Master plan discussions begin at 6:30 pm.