Second Annual Locavore Festival: A Food Tasting Event

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The Acworth Village Store has an exciting event planned for August 27, 2017 from 10am-4pm, and they want YOU to be included in the fun as an exhibitor/vendor, sponsor or speaker!

They are hosting our second annual Acworth Locavore Festival.

From the Organizing Committee:

What is a Locavore Festival?

It’s a public event to showcase local food and beverage producers and local “farm to table” restaurants which will connect local food lovers and consumers to what is being locally grown and produced.

We know your passion for locally produced food and beverage and we’d love to have you participate in this festival by showing, sampling and selling to the public what you produce. This is an opportunity to sell your products and make yourself known to a wider audience. This is a huge celebration of what our greater geographic area has to offer in the way of healthy, sustainable, locally cultivated and passionately produced food and beverage. We’d also like you to be able to supply samples, to the public who will be attending this event, so they can see, smell, taste and experience that passion.

Contact us to obtain a vendor application form so you can fill it out, send in your payment and join us this August. It promises to be a fabulous opportunity for local producers and just a fun time for all!

We have many opportunities for advertising and exposure in this event for vendors. Besides having table space to exhibit your products, we are also offering speaking/presentation/demonstration time slots within our big tent for you to speak to the public about your products.

Although we will be mentioning all vendors in our festival booklet with a short description and showing your booth placement on the festival map, we also have opportunities for you to specifically advertise in our festival booklet with different sized ads.

Finally, we are offering an opportunity for special sponsorship of the event which will afford each sponsor a booth, a speaking slot, a full page ad in the festival guide plus additional exposure of your logo on all of our advertising materials, including links on our website, along with a mention of your business in any media articles about our event.

If you have any questions about the event, or are interested in a sponsorship, please contact Linda Lacasse at 603-835-2486 or email linda@lacasseenterprise.com.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee for the Acworth Locavore Festival we want to offer our thanks for all that you do to provide healthy sustenance for the local community.

Call for Partners: NH Eat Local Month

Eat-Local-NH-logoRGB_20101-300x198It’s time to start planning this year’s NH Eat Local Month, an annual event in August that celebrates local food and farming in our state.

This year, Monadnock Buy Local is collaborating with the NH Department of Agriculture, Markets and Food, Seacoast Eat Local, NH Farms Network and hopefully you to amplify the “Eat Local” message and empower more of us to celebrate the harvest.

We’re looking for partners to help us spread the word and energize all parts of the state to celebrate NH Eat Local Month.

Partners will:

  • Endorse NH Eat Local Month by sharing their business/organization’s name and logo with us
  • Provide us with links to any events or promotions they are organizing during NH Eat Local Month
  • Spread the word by sharing social media posts, adding a link to NHEatLocal.org on their own website and finding other creative ways to engage their fans in NH Eat Local Month

Partners will receive:

  • A listing on NH Eat Local Month’s Website
  • Ideas on how to celebrate NH Farms & Local Food all month long
  • Event marketing templates — such as a press release, social media posts and other materials

How do you sign on as a partner?  It’s easy — just send an email to jen@monadnocklocal.org with an “I’m in!” message and we’ll add you to our list.  There’s no cost to you to participate as a partner.

Community Garden Connections Weekly Garden Parties

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WHERE?
The Westmoreland Garden Project located at the Cheshire County Farm
River Road in Westmoreland, NH, 03467 (near the Maplewood Nursing Home)

WHEN?
Every Tuesday, May through October, 4-6pm
(Carpool from Antioch University at 3:30pm)

WHAT ELSE?

  • Dress for garden work, rain or shine!
  • No supplies required – just bring yourself and a positive attitude!
  • Antioch’s Community Garden Connections staff will support volunteers in planting, watering, and weeding the vegetable garden, caring for the orchard, and creating a perennial flower garden!
  • All proceeds are donated to the Keene Community Kitchen and other community members with limited access to fresh produce.

For more information contact: communitygardens@antioch.edu

 

Help Raise a Barn and Bring Wheels to Another Farm

JUST ONE WEEK LEFT!  The Local Crowd (TLC) Monadnock’s inaugural crowdfunding campaigns end April 15, 2017. Check out each farm’s rewards for contributing to their campaign.

Don’t wait: Contribute today!

Archway Farm’s Farm to Table on Wheels

Select your reward on the right side of Archway Farm’s TLC Monadnock Page.

  • 2016-12-28-10-18-53-1024x765$10: Cart Karma
    • Personalized thank you note from the family and an Archway Farm temporary tattoo.
  • $20: Farm Tour
    • An hour long tour of the farm ending in a delicious sausage sampling. Tours are schedule for the last Sunday of each month (May – August) from 10 – 11 am. Good for 1 vehicle, up to 4 people.
  • $25: Jack’s Crackers Exclusive Flavor
    • One bag of Jack’s Crackers, made with fresh, local ingredients from the Keene, NH. Brand new exclusive TLC Monadnock flavor: Bacon & Buttermilk Biscuit (a.k.a. The Fallen Vegan).
  • $30: Kickoff Sausage
    • Get 1 lb of our Archway Farm’s limited edition Cheddar Bratwurst sausage, made with Stonewall Farm cheese.
  • $75: Sausage Club
    • Receive 1 pound of four different kinds of sausage, each made with an ingredient from a local farm. Sausage will be available in March, May, July, and September.
  • $100: Deluxe Sausage Club (ONLY 3 LEFT!)
    • Get all the benefits of the sausage club, plus get an Archway Farm BBQ apron.
  • $500: Let’s Have a Party! (SOLD OUT!!!)
    • The sausage cart will come to your house or work and provide lunch for up to 20 people.
  • $500: Roaster Pig (ONLY 1 LEFT!)
    • One Archway Farm roaster pig prepared by a USDA butcher, delivery between June and October 2017.

Check out these great rewards for giving at certain levels:

Stonewall Farm’s Barn Raising

Select your reward on the right side of Stonewall Farm’s TLC Monadnock Page.

  • Stonewall Banner$20: Beeswax Ornament from Raffi’s Bees
    • Raffi is a seven-year old beekeeper who, with his mom, makes these delightful ornaments.
  • $25: Tree Free Greetings Magnet
    • Magnet of Stonewall Farm
  • $25: Jack’s Crackers Exclusive Flavor
    • One bag of Jack’s Crackers, made with fresh, local ingredients from the Keene, NH. Brand new exclusive TLC Monadnock flavor: Bacon & Buttermilk Biscuit (a.k.a. The Fallen Vegan).
  • $50: Tree Free Greetings Coloring Book – Color Keene
    • A zen coloring style book featuring key places from throughout the Monadnock region – including Stonewall Farm!
  • $100: Tree Free Greetings – Stonewall Barista Tumbler
    • Tumbler with picture of Stonewall Farm
  • $500: Half-Hour Group Hay Ride for up to 12 people
    • Enjoy a half hour private hay ride for up to 12 of your family and friends. You will tour the property of Stonewall farm viewing scenic pastures and forests and all the sights at the farm.

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