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Sweet! NH Maple Sugaring Month Starts March 12th

February 29, 2016March 1, 2016Leave a comment

maple The New Hampshire Maple Producers Association hosts Maple Sugaring Month from March 12- April 3, 2016 and the 21st Annual Maple Weekend on March 19 – 20, 2016.

WEEK 1: Maple Producers (View as PDF)

Participating Monadnock Region Maple Producers:

Atkins Family Sugarhouse
Shawn & Kathy Atkins
504 South Main St
Washington, NH 03280
skatkins@gsinet.net
11-6
maple products, candy, cream, butter, sugar, syrup, and baked goods

Ben’s Sugar Shack
Ben Fisk
83 Webster Hwy
Temple, NH 03084
ben@bensmaplesyrup.com
www.bensmaplesyrup.com
603-924-3111
10-5
Join Us For Ben’s Sugar Shack’s Annual Maple Month!! Great time for anyone! Families, Singles, Couples, and Kids!!!! Free Tours Given from tree to the bottle! Also, Stop By For Delicious Free Samples!! Maple Syrup, Maple Cotton Candy, Maple Sugar on Snow, Maple Syrup on Ice Cream, And So Much More!!!

Clark’s Sugarhouse
David & Alvin Clark
Crane Brook Road
Acworth, NH 03602
clarkssugarhouse@gmail.com
603-835-6863
11-4
Free Syrup samples. Tour our bison farm. Bison burgers, bison chili, maple pecan pie, donuts, coffee and cold drinks. Wood fired operation. All maple products for sale along with frozen bison meat. All food will also be for sale March 12 and 13.

Connolly’s Sugar House
Chris Connolly
140 Webster Hwy
Temple, NH 03084
connollybrothersdairyfarm@yahoo.com
603-924-5002
10-4
Sample syrup from our wood-fired evaporator. We offer many homemade maple based foods including whoopee pies, waffles on a stick, maple cream and maple walnut ice cream. Maple sausage for sale at our farm store. Visit with our Jersey cows and calves. Food truck on site selling breakfast and lunch. Firewood processor demos at 11 & 2 each day. Port-a-potty on site.

Crescendo Acres Farm
Russ Fiorey
21 Carpenter Rd
Surry, NH 03431
Rfiorey@ne.rr.com
http://crescendoacres.com
603-352-9380
11-4
Sugar house open for guests. Learn how maple syrup is made. Maple syrup samples, gift shop open. Farm animals to visit- alpacas & mini horses. Help gather sap. Enjoy our country setting. There is no fee for our activities. Just come and enjoy all we do.

Four Saps Sugar Shack
Begley/Comtois Familys
10 Fredette Drive
Lyndeborough, NH 03082
Tara@foursapssugarshack.com
603-714-4503
9-4
Maple syrup for sale, as well as baked goods, maple candy, maple nuts and lots more maple products. Come and grab a cup of coffee, tea or hot chocolate and watch demonstrations going on all day.

Grand Monadnock Maple Farm, LLC
Jon & Jillian Miner
149 Breed Road
Harrisville, NH 03450
jon@monadnockmaple.com
monadnockmaple.com
10-4
Stop by and sample Maple syrup, Maple Candy and Maple Cream. Tours of the sugarhouse. All items may be purchased at the sugarhouse.

Grassy Brook Maple Products
Guy Elliot & Family
201 Gustin Pond Rd
Marlow, NH 03456
gbmp@grassybrookmapleproducts.com
http://grassybrookmapleproducts.com
603-446-3324
12-6 Sat, 11-5 Sun
Saturdays – Coffee, homemade donuts and all kinds of maple tasting. There will be demo on boiling, candy making. Sundays – Taste our maple syrup on homemade pancakes. Demo of making of syrup, maple cream, fudge, and sugar on snow. Taste our maple pulled pork & Maple baked beans from 3pm – close on Sundays. As always our syrup and confections will be for sale.

Hunts Sugar House LLC
Charles M Hunt Sr and Charles M Hunt Jr
28 Gleason Falls Rd
Hillsboro, NH 03244
huntsmaple@gmail.com
603-478-5568
10-4
We would like you to join us in our family tradition of making maple syrup for over 100 years. We will be having free homemade donuts and coffee with samples of syrup, candy, and cream. All maple products sold at the Sugar House.

Molly’s Maple Barn
Bruce & Danielle Harrington
108 Red House Rd
Francestown, NH 03043
bdharrington@comcast.net
603-547-2813
11-4
We are a small sugar house and still produce maple syrup the old fashioned way including hand filtering. You can see a maple tree with the sap flowing into a bucket, how the sap gets into the sugar house, the evaporator and the final delicious result of liquid gold! We will have maple syrup for sale, which may still be warm from that day’s harvest. Toffee made with maple syrup will also be for sale and maple cookies available for sampling. Check out Molly’s Maple Barn on Facebook!

Morning Star Maple
John & Karen Keurulainen
1596 Main Street
Dublin, NH 03444
info@morningstarmaple.com
http://morningstarmaple.com
603-563-9218
10-5 Sat, 10-4 Sun
We have an extensive variety of our own maple syrup in glass bottles, tins & plastic jugs. Maple cream, popcorn, cotton candy, fudge, and much more available for sale. Free samples given out every weekend. **Maple Weekend: serving free pancakes both days. Boiling hours may vary depending on weather conditions. Please call ahead.

Mt. Crumpit Farm
Dale Smith
207 Lull Rd
New Boston, NH 03070
dsmt.crumpit@gmail.com
603-325-5900
Call for hours
With the unpredictable weather, please call for boiling times any day of the week (usually evenings). If we have sap to boil, you are more than welcome to visit when it fits into your schedule, not just on the weekend. Maple weekend- we will offer talks about sugaring over a wood fired evaporator. Donuts and coffee will be available for free.

Old Pound Road Sugar House
Charles Levesque
37 Old Pound Road
Antrim, NH 03440
levesque@inrsllc.com
http://www.inrsllc.com
603-588-3272
Call for appt
On Maple Weekend we will provide free maple syrup and maple candy samples for tasting. A full explanation of the maple sap boiling process and syrup and candy making will be given to everyone. We love to have children in the sugar house and make it fun to learn the process! We’ll have maple muffins and coffee for free. Fresh maple syrup and candy will also be available for sale. This small sugar house is an intimate way to smell the sap boiling and learn about this much loved late winter/early spring ritual!

Somero Maple Farm
Peter & Reuben Somero
21 Poor Farm Rd
New Ipswich, NH 03071
someromaplefarm@gmail.com
http://someromaplefarm.com
603-878-2025
9-2 Sat
Tours of the sugar house, maple syrup samples, other maple product samples.

Stuart & John’s Sugar House Restaurant
Stuart Adams & John Matthews
31 Route 63
Westmoreland, NH 03467
sradams@stuartandjohns.com
www.stuartandjohns.com
603-399-4486
7-3
Maple Tours, Free maple samples, Free Popcorn. Full Breakfast and Lunch menu served in our 93 seat dining room. Maple syrup served warm at your table family style. All items cooked to order fresh and hot. No reservations, first come, first serve. Many white board specials.

Woodard’s Sugar House
Mark and Kati Woodard
1200 Rt 12A
Surry, NH 03431
woodardssugarhousenm@gmail.com
http://woodardssugarhouse.com
603-358-3321
10-3
We will be offering tours, sale and samples of our products (maple syrup, maple candy, maple cream, maple coated nuts, maple cotton candy, maple sugar), sugar on snow (pending if we have snow), demonstrations, free raffle to win maple products.

Food for Thought Film: Inhabit

February 23, 2016February 23, 2016Leave a comment

Inhabit – Tuesday, March 1, 6 to 8 p.m. – Peterborough Community Theatre, 6 School Street, Peterborough. Includes a talk by Steve Whitman. Sponsored by the Cornucopia Project.

Inhabit-March-2016-flyer

Food For Thought, a free monthly film series about food, nutrition, farming and gardening is held on the first Tuesday of each month at the Peterborough Community Theatre.

Inhabit is a feature length documentary introducing permaculture: a design method that offers an ecological lens for solving issues related to agriculture, economics, governance, and more. The film presents an array of projects, concepts and people, and translates the diversity of permaculture into something that can be understood by all audiences.

The film will be followed by a discussion on permaculture led by Steve Whitman, Inhabit cast member and professional planner, permaculture teacher and educator. Steve is an adjunct faculty at Plymouth State University where he teaches environmental planning, community planning, permaculture and sustainability. Free film!

CSA Day: February 26th

February 7, 2016February 19, 2016Leave a comment

By Hannah Ridge, CSA Day Coordinator

12592667_1700365486877193_3922228246496006425_n This coming February 26 marks the second annual CSA Signup Day, an international, virtual event that celebrates Community Supported Agriculture and invites people to participate by signing up for a CSA with a local farm.

VIEW CSAs IN THE MONADNOCK REGION

A CSA is a direct-to-consumer business model for farmers, whereby people invest in a farm in exchange for a share of the harvest. This model has been crucial to the success of small farmers and the local food movement, but it’s also been advantageous for CSA members, the families and individuals that commit to a farmer for an entire season.

“Once a week, I get the majority of my family’s food delivered close to my home,” says Pittsburgh resident and long-time CSA member Mike Cuccaro. “I initially joined a CSA because I was curious, but I’ve continued with my CSA for eight years because I’ve eaten healthier.”

In addition to eating a more nutritious diet, Mike says that with a CSA, “the vegetables and eggs are fresher and taste better, and it’s convenient and cost-effective.”

Anyone can participate in CSA Day by signing up for a CSA on February 26th. For those looking for a farm to join, there is a CSA Directory on csasignupday.com, where they can find CSAs in their area and see what CSA Day promotions are being offered. A lot of CSAs have a wide distribution network, so prospective CSA members browsing the CSA Directory should take a look at farms in neighboring cities. The directory is just one of the many additions to this year’s celebration of CSA Day.

The inaugural CSA Signup Day was held on Saturday February 28, 2015 by Small Farm Central, a Pittsburgh-based technology company that provides web services to direct-marketing farms, once they identified that date as the most popular day of the year for CSA signups.

Participating farmers can look forward to a greater support base, and consumers can enjoy the varied promotions offered to people who sign up on this day. The CSA Day celebration also includes shareable graphics, a CSA Member Starter Pack, and a video contest with a $1000 prize.

About Small Farm Central:

Small Farm Central serves the technology needs of small business farmers, including websites, ecommerce, CSA member management and marketing tools. Since 2006, Small Farm Central has worked with over 1,000 farms across the U.S. and Canada. For more information, please visit: www.smallfarmcentral.com.
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On the Farm

February 2, 2016February 2, 2016Leave a comment

Local Food Security, Regional Wellness, and Earth Stewardship

Date:                Thursday, February 18, 2016
Time:               5 – 7:30 pm
Place:               Stonewall Farm, 242 Chesterfield Rd., Keene, NH
RSVP by 2/15: Kate Hickey or (603) 283-2436

An evening inspired by the book On the Farm: The Uncertain Future of an American Legacy with text by Ronald Dodson and paintings by Adriano Manocchia. Adriano’s paintings will be on display and available for purchase.

We’ll relish local foods, enjoy exquisite art, and engage in a facilitated discussion about the region’s future food supply and production, and ways our community is responding. We are convening local food solutions scholars, students, practitioners, and representatives from many of the region’s organizations who are currently involved with these critical issues.

Facilitated Discussion Groups

Civic Engagement & Education
Conservation of Nature & Stewardship
Equity, Access &Sustainable Communities
Health, Environment & Economic Prosperity

Cash Bar | Refreshments by Steve Guerriero of Pisgah Farm | Discussion and Book Signing