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Celebrate New Hampshire Eat Local Month With The Acworth Village Store

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Throughout the month of August, The Acworth Village Store joins with 50 partners throughout the state to highlight New Hampshire Eat Local Month — a month-long celebration of local food and New Hampshire farmers and producers. NH Eat Local Month also coincides with National Farmers’ Market Week, honoring farmers’ markets all across America.

“New Hampshire residents and visitors, alike, are showing unprecedented interest in local food, and this month-long celebration offers a great opportunity to feature New Hampshire grown foods and farms,” said Gail McWilliam Jellie from the New Hampshire Department of Agriculture, Markets & Food.

As part of the NH Eat Local Month festivities, The Acworth Village Store (located at 1068 Route 123A, South Acworth, NH) will be presenting these events:

  • There is our very popular Saturday Night Pizza Night, which is every Saturday Night from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM. Enjoy freshly made pizza from our outdoor clay oven and listen to live local music.
  • We also will be hosting our annual Harvest Dinner, on August 19th, featuring a flavorful gourmet menu created with locally sourced ingredients.

 

The Acworth Village Store is open Monday-Saturday from 7am-7pm and Sundays from 8am-7 pm. The phone number there is 603-835-6547. They offer many services including an ATM and a US Post Office. Come visit our website at http://www.acworthvillagestore.com or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/acworthvillagestore/.

The Organizing Committee for the Acworth Locavore Festival wants to offer their thanks for all that farmers and food producers do to provide healthy sustenance for the local community.

New Hampshire Eat Local Month is a statewide celebration of farmers and local food producers throughout the month of August. Promotion of this year’s NH Eat Local Month is in collaboration with the Hampshire Department of Agriculture, Markets & Food, Monadnock Buy Local, Seacoast Eat Local and New Hampshire Farms Network. Find more information at www.nheatlocal.org and www.facebook.com/nheatlocal.

Kids Connect! Farm, Field & Forest

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cornucopiaprojectlogo_4c_newThe Cornucopia Project announces a new partnership with the Monadnock Conservancy, with support from the Caswell Foundation, to create the Kids Connect! Farm, Field & Forest Youth Summer Program at Four Winds Farm in Peterborough. The Kids Connect! program promotes self-esteem, teamwork, play and healthy eating by connecting children to land and nature through safe and enjoyable farming and gardening activities and adventures in cooking.

The program is geared for children entering grades 3 to 6 and meets every Monday and Thursday from 4 to 6:30 p.m., from July 17 to August 17. The cost is $150 per child for 10 classes, or tuition-free for families eligible. For more information please email katrina@monadnockconservancy.org.

Get Ready to Celebrate New Hampshire Eat Local Month in August

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Monadnock Region Local Food System updates

Throughout the month of August, Monadnock Buy Local joins with 50+ partners throughout the state to highlight New Hampshire Eat Local Month — a month-long celebration of local food and New Hampshire farmers and producers.

All month long, we hope to inspire you to eat more locally grown, raised and made foods, meet the farmers, growers and chefs behind your food and learn new skills that keep you eating locally throughout the year.

As part of the NH Eat Local Month festivities, Monadnock Buy Local will feature Monadnock Region local food and farm events on its website and social media posts.  NH Eat Local Month also coincides with National Farmers’ Market Week, honoring farmers’ markets all across America.

New Hampshire Eat Local Month is a statewide celebration of farmers and local food producers throughout the month of August. Promotion of this year’s NH Eat Local Month is in collaboration with New Hampshire Department of Agriculture, Markets & Food,  Seacoast Eat Local and NH Farms Network.

Thank you to all the NH Eat Local Month partners!

2017 NH Eat Local Month Events in the Monadnock Region

August 1: Weekly Garden Party with Community Garden Connections at the Cheshire County Farm in Westermoreland

August 2: Preserving the Harvest hosted by the Monadnock Food Co-op in Keene

August 3: Movie Night at the Barn hosted by Walpole Valley Farms in Walpole

August 4: Local Food BBQ hosted by Monadnock Food Co-op

August 6-12:  National and New Hampshire Farmers’ Market Week

August 8: Weekly Garden Party with Community Garden Connections at the Cheshire County Farm in Westermoreland

August 10: Movie Night at the Barn hosted by Walpole Valley Farms in Walpole

August 12: Farm Tour of Alyson’s Orchard in Walpole with Monadnock Food Co-op

August 15: Weekly Garden Party with Community Garden Connections at the Cheshire County Farm in Westermoreland

August 17: Movie Night at the Barn hosted by Walpole Valley Farms in Walpole

August 19: Annual Harvest Dinner at The Village Store in South Acworth

August 19: Ice Cream Social with Walpole Creamery Ice Cream hosted by Monadnock Food Co-op

August 22: Weekly Garden Party with Community Garden Connections at the Cheshire County Farm in Westermoreland

August 24: Movie Night at the Barn hosted by Walpole Valley Farms in Walpole

August 25: Farm to Table Dinner at Stonewall Farm in Keene

August 26: Monadnock Farm Tour with Monadnock Farm & Community Coalition

August 27: Acworth Locavore Festival behind the Acworth Village Store in Acworth

August 29: Weekly Garden Party with Community Garden Connections at the Cheshire County Farm in Westermoreland

August TBA: The Community Kitchen’s Local Harvest Dinner

Discover more events happening throughout the state

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.