Category: Food Security

Winchester Local Food Celebration

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winchester-local-foodJoin Monadnock Farm & Community Coalition for a FREE COMMUNITY LUNCH celebrating Winchester’s local farms and farmers working to provide the best, freshest, healthiest and accessible food to all its residents.


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  • 3 Different Mac N’ Cheese dishes
  • Salad, Bread, Pies, Pastries & more!
  • Pamela’s Pantry will be put together a smorgasbord of delicious food sourced from Wingate Farm, Winchester Farmers Market, Picadilly Farm, Echo Farm, Manning Hill Farm, Cheshire Gardens and other local businesses.


ACTIVITIES

  • Kids Local Food Quest
  • Winchester Elementary Art Exhibit of Local Food
  • Music
  • Booths
  • Beekeeping Exhibition & more

Sponsored by the Education Working Group of the Monadnock Farm and Community Coalition, Cheshire Co. Conservation District, Picadilly Farm, Winchester Farmers Market, UNH Cooperative Extension Nutrition Connections, Winchester CAST committee and The Community Kitchen.

Made possible by a grant of the HNH Foundation.

Registration Open: Future of Farming Conference

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cornucopia-farming-conference-poster11x19-2017Future of Farming in a Changing World Conference

Creating a Robust, Sustainable & Community Based Food System
March 25, 2017, 9 to 4:30
Monadnock Center for History and Culture
19 Grove Street, Peterborough, NH

  • Growing the next generation of farmers
  • Cutting edge technology solutions to support farmers
  • Models for growing, processing, and distributing sustainably grown food
  • Climate change and its impact on farming
  • Farmland access-matching farmers to farmland

Keynote speaker:  Philip Ackerman-Leist, Professor of Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems, Green Mountain College, VT; farmer, and author of Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable & Secure Food Systems.
Talks and panel discussion include:

  • John VanHoesen, Associate Professor of Geology; Director Natural Resource Management, Director Geology program, Green Mountain College, VT
  • Hannah Bissex and students, Farm to Fork program, Cornucopia Project
  • Ryan Owens, Monadnock Conservancy

Check in: 8 to 8:45am; program begins at 9am (pre-registration suggested as there are only 100 seats)

Registration: $25/per person, register here; $15/student rate, register here.  Student rate sponsored by Broadfork Company.  Please register early, as seats are limited.

Lunch: Light/local ‘Soupfest’ lunch included.  Will offer vegan, dairy-free and vegetarian options.

Post-conference dinner option: Visit our friends at Harlow’s Pub (across from the conference) and receive a 5% discount on your meal.

Let us know if you would like information on supporting this event by contacting Joyce at admin@cornucopiaproject.org.

 

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Future of Farming in a Changing World Conference

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Save the Date:
March 25, 2017 at the Monadnock Center for History and Culture in Peterborough

The Cornucopia Project will host the Future of Farming in a Changing World Conference to discuss how to build a sustainable and community-based food system, look at land availability, and how climate change will impact farming practices, with a focus on young farmers.

The keynote speaker is Philip Ackerman-Leist, professor, farmer and author of Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable, and Secure Food Systems.  For more information, contact Joyce at admin@cornucopiaproject.org.

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