Raw Milk from Stonewall Farm is delivered on Tuesdays to the Hannah Grimes Marketplace on Main Street, Keene. You can call in advance (Monday by the latest) to put in an order for milk: 603-352-6862.
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What’s So Super about Super Ketchup?
Super Ketchup is a premium ketchup that’s got a little secret. There’s broccoli, carrots, yams and spinach hidden inside–but it sure doesn’t taste like it.
Super Ketchup is made right here in Keene at RoundBelly Farms from all organic ingredients and local produce, when possible. It’s been thoroughly kid-tested and approved by even the most discerning ketchup connoisseurs, young and old. And with over two ounces of vegetable puree in every 18oz bottle, moms are also sure to smile with each dip into Super Ketchup.
Rosaly’s Garden and Farmstand
P. O. Box 210, Peterborough, NH 03458-0210
603-924-3303
RosalyBass@aol.com
By Jan Sevene
Local vegetables and fruits are fresh and nutritious. To assure they are grown in a healthy and sustainable environment, we’re often reminded: “get to know the farmer.” Rosaly Bass, master gardener and owner of Rosaly’s Garden and Farmstand, is one farmer you will want to know. In business for over thirty years, her 16-acre Rosaly’s Garden is the oldest and second largest Certified Organic Farm in New Hampshire. And because every vegetable, fruit, herb and flower sold at the farmstand is grown right on the farm, each is guaranteed organic.
“People just love the farmstand. It’s convenient right on Rte. 123. It’s organic food. And, Rosaly puts her heart and soul into it,” says Donna White,” the farm’s bookkeeper, herself a first-year gardener who uses Bass’s book on successful organic gardening as her guide.
Every day from mid-May to Columbus Day, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., with numerous locally-made foods and crafts, Rosaly’s Farmstand offers mounds of tasty, farm-fresh, colorful and seasonal vegetables, fruits and herbs, plus fresh flowers. These encompass 90% of the farm’s produce. The additional 10% continues to provide for the community, sold to local markets, health food stores, restaurants and schools.
Scissors, baskets, or containers of water are provided for Rosaly’s Garden customers, to harvest the vegetables, herbs, berries or flowers of their choice. The adventure of a scavenger hunt delights children searching for small plaster animals hiding among the culinary and medicinal herbs.
Get to know Rosaly Bass (see NOFA NH Organic Garden & Farm Tour). For more information on the many ways to get farm-fresh food from Rosaly’s Garden and Farmstand, and learn about the informative book and video series on organic gardening by Master Gardener Rosaly Bass, visit http://www.rosalysgarden.com.
Other farm-direct vegetables:
Keene Farmers’ Market
Tuesdays and Saturdays
9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Gilbo Ave.
Keene, NH
Green Wagon Farm
Bill Jarrell
Upper Court St.
Keene, NH
603-355-3258
Farm Stands in Cheshire County
High Hopes Orchard – Joanne/Bruce Smith, 582 Glebe Rd., Westmoreland 03467, 603-399-4305, highhopesorchard@monad.net, http://www.highhopesorchard.com. 9am-6pm, July-October; 10am-5pm, November-December. Raspberries, blueberries, apples & pumpkins. Peaches in August. Special Events: Farm adventure entertainment park-September-October. Includes animals, rides, haunted barn, day time spooky ride through woods (narrated); train, snack bar, September-October; ice cream, July.
Monadnock Berries – Anthony/Fenella Levick, 545 West Hill Rd., Troy 03465, 603-242-6417 blueberry@monad.net, http://www.monadnockberries.com. 8am-8pm, daily, July-August; 9am-5pm, daily, September. Fresh picked blueberries, fresh farm grown tomatoes, cucumbers, blueberry china, tree ripened peaches, black currants, red currants, gooseberries, baking mixes, Annie’s jams, jellies, Sanford’s jams & jellies, ice cream, coffee, sodas, fruit drinks, Smith’s farm cheese, local honey, candy mixes, deluxe soup mixes & fresh baked items.
Rosaly’s Farmstand – Rosaly Bass, Route 123 (just south of Rte. 101), Peterborough 03458, 603-924-7774, rosalybass@aol.com, http://www.rosalysgarden.com, 9am-6pm, daily, May 18-October 14. Bedding plants, 100 varieties of flowers, culinary & medicinal herbs, mesclun salad mix, six varieties of lettuce, tomatoes: regular & cherry tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, beets, leeks, onions, garlic, carrots, spinach, Swiss chard, peas: garden & snap peas, potatoes: red norland, yukon gold, blue & sweet potatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, brussel sprouts, cabbage, zucchini, yellow squash, cucumbers, winter squash, pumpkins, gourds, melons, raspberries & blueberries. Certified organic . Other local products such as honey, maple & cheese.
The Apple Place – Roger Bienvenu, 781 Old Walpole Rd., Surry 03431, 603… 10am-6pm, August 25-October 15. Several varieties of apples available.
Alyson’s Orchard Farmstand – Susan Jasse, Route 12, Wapole, 03608, 603-756-9800. Opens in late summer! http://alysonsorchard.com/alyson-orchards/farm-stand.aspx.
View farmstands in other counties at: http://www.nh.gov/agric/divisions/agricultural_development/documents/NH_Farm_Stands.pdf.
Other Area Farmstands
From Monadnock Farm & Community Connection Inventory
Bee Tree Farm – 603-363-4631, Chesterfield, beetree@ptcnh.net, http://www.beetreefarmnh.com.
Boggy Meadow Farm – 603-756-3300, Walpole, info@boggymeadowfarm.com, http://boggymeadowfarm.com.
Green Wagon Farm – Upper Court St., Keene, open seven days a week, Monday-Friday 10-6 p.m., weekends 10-5 p.m.
Herban Living Farm – 603-878-0459, Temple, lisa@herbanlivingfarm.org, http://www.herbanlivingbandb.com.
Hidden Birch Farm – 603-827-2950, Nelson, info@hiddenbirchfarm.com, http://www.hiddenbirchfarm.com.
Maple Lane Farm – 603-352-2329, Keene, jcbgarden@yahoo.com.
The Milkhouse at Great Brook Farm – 603-756-3661, Walpole, hours: 7:30-8:00, 7 days a week.
Pete’s Farm Stand – Route 12, Walpole, 802-885-6443.
Stonewall Farm Farm Stand – opens on 5/23! Hours are M-F 2-7 and Sat., Sun 10-7. The farmstand features Stonewall Farm raw milk, vegetables, syrup and other locally made products including coffee, jelly, honey, soaps, ice cream, etc. 603… x.103, ttryba@stonewallfarm.org, Visit us on the web at: http://www.stonewallfarm.org.
The Farm on South Main – Troy, 603-242-7865
Tracie’s Community Farm Farmstand – opens Friday, May 1st, 7a.m., Fitzwilliam. Vegetables, herbs and flower transplants through mid-June and then vegetables through mid-October. All grown without the use of chemical fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides or fungicides. For more information, contact Tracie Smith
603-209-1851, farmertracie@hotmail.com, http://www.traciesfarm.com.
Walpole Valley Farms – 603-756-2855, Walpole, chris@walpolevalleyfarms.com, http://www.walpolevalleyfarms.com.
White’s Farm Stand & Sugarhouse – Rt. 119, West Rindge, 603-899-5000
Year-Round Markets
Hannah Grimes Marketplace – Keene
24 Carrots Farm Stand – Swanzey
Blueberry Fields – Keene
Coll’s Farm Stand – Jaffrey
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