Kearsarge Food Hub

Cultivating Food Sovereignty, Growing Engaged Learners, Nurturing Community

As a nonprofit organization serving the greater Kearsarge Area in central NH, we envision a resilient and connected community where everyone is empowered to access healthy local food, where farmers are supported and the land is nourished, and all people share a common sense of place.

Kearsarge Food Hub is on a mission to reinvigorate our community within a restorative local food system through cultivating food sovereignty, growing engaged learners, and nurturing community.

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We’re Hiring Multiple Positions!

The Kearsarge Food Hub, home of Sweet Beet, is hiring for several positions to help advance our mission of connecting local people with local food across the Kearsarge region.
Each team member is essential to the impact we make in our community. All programs are guided by our four core values: Collaborative Stewardship, Inclusive Engagement, Conscientious Innovation, and Joyful Renewal. More than a job, this is work with purpose—and we like to have fun! If you feel you’re a good fit for an open position, please apply today and join our awesome team!

Events

Events
February Food Drive
Feb 1
February Food Drive

Cold days, warm hearts here at Sweet Beet, as we kick off our third annual February Food Drive!

Save 10% on your in-market purchases when you donate 3+ Food Drive items, or donate online! (The entire month of February)

Our local food pantries are seeing a record high number of clients, which means these donations are critical, especially this time of year as our neighbors face the impossible decision of "heat or eat?”.

This year’s Food Drive is unique because not only can you donate non-perishable items, you can also donate FRESH food, including milk, eggs, yogurt, chicken, ground beef, tofu, an assortment of fresh vegetables + fruit, and more!

Honey Tasting! (Food Drive Item!)
Feb 7
Honey Tasting! (Food Drive Item!)

You know this honey and you love this honey!!!

And if you don’t know this honey, now is your time to know it and love it!

It really doesn’t get any more local than Randy Fleury’s honey from just a few miles away in Sutton, NH.

Come visit the “Bee Man” on Saturday Feb 7th from 11 AM to 2 PM to try an assortment of raw local honey, including new flavors of creamed honey (perfection on toast with butter or in your tea!)

PS this is a February Food Drive item, which means you can buy one for yourself and one for the Food Drive!

NOFA-NH Winter Conference
Mar 7
NOFA-NH Winter Conference

NOFA-NH Winter Conference
March 7th at Colby-Sawyer College in New London, NH

Rooted in shared purpose and growing together, the NOFA-NH Winter Conference is a celebration of community, resilience, and the transformative power of local food. This year’s theme, Taking Root: Nourishing Community, honors the deep connections between land, people, and practices that sustain us.

Pigeon Cove Kombucha Tasting!
Mar 7
Pigeon Cove Kombucha Tasting!

Get ready friends, this is going to be a GOOD ONE. Everybody’s favorite kombucha company is going to be HERE at the market on Saturday March 7th from 11 AM to 2 PM!!

We have nearly ten rotating flavors of Pigeon Cove Ferment’s kombucha in our drink cooler, and fun fact the Hibiscus Ginger is not only the top kombucha flavor that we sell but it is the most purchased drink (other than cups of coffee haha) here at Sweet Beet!

We’ve been told the cucumber jalapeño flavor makes an incredibly refreshing mocktail OR cocktail (margaritas anyone?) and the raspberry basil or hibiscus ginger mixes well with Herbal Revolution’s elderberry tonic for the immunity boost we could all use this time of year!

NH Food System Statewide Gathering
Apr 10
NH Food System Statewide Gathering

NH Food System Statewide Gathering
April 10th at the Owl’s Nest in Thornton, NH

Each year, the NH Food System Statewide Gathering brings together individuals, businesses, and organizations from across sectors who are dedicated to developing a local food system that works for all in the Granite State.

Farmers, fishermen, business owners, and food system professionals from across New Hampshire and New England will be gathering to dive deeply into breakout sessions, networking activities, and more to drive change across New Hampshire’s food system. 

Food Security Summit
Apr 18
Food Security Summit

Food Security Summit
Connection • Learning • Collaboration

Saturday, April 18th at Kearsarge Regional High School

The Food Security Summit by FEED Kearsarge is an annual gathering that brings together the people and organizations working to expand food access, education, and distribution across the Kearsarge / Lake Sunapee region.

Taking place on Saturday, April 18th from 9:00am–3:00pm at Kearsarge Regional High School in North Sutton, NH, the summit offers a full day of connection, learning, and collaboration with refreshments and lunch provided.

From the blog

Blog
Food Insecurity is Hitting Home in our Community
Food Insecurity is Hitting Home in our Community

FEED Kearsarge is a local coalition working to solve this problem together—and you can help.

Whether or not neighbors have enough food to eat is not a partisan issue. Access to food is a basic human right and food security is a matter of local and national security; when neighbors are hungry, entire communities suffer. This is not some problem “out there”— people face hunger every day right here in the Kearsarge region.

The truth is, many people are doing everything they can to make ends meet but the math just isn’t adding up as the cost of living rises across the board.

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New Seasonal Menu at The Beet!
New Seasonal Menu at The Beet!

A change of season means a change of menu here at Sweet Beet Cafe.

Eating with our seasons means we get to support our local farmers all year long, and shifting into winter means creative new menu items with the new produce we have most abundant access to!

There are some cozy new menu items, like the Winter Warmer Grain Bowl and the Mushroom Grilled Cheese, which you are likely going to want to add BRISKET to.

Other incredible brisket options include The Mexi Dip and Brisket Breakfast sandwich.

Let's just say the kitchen crew has not been slacking!!

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Sweet Beet 2025 Wrapped
Sweet Beet 2025 Wrapped

What a year 2025 was! Take a look at our year in review with Sweet Beet’s 2025 Wrapped!

THANK YOU for being a part of this community with us. Thank you for shopping local, supporting hundreds of local and regional farmers and food producers.

Because of everyone, like you, who shopped local in 2025, we are collectively having an IMPACT and supporting our neighbors.

These numbers matter!!!! They are fun to look back on, but they are also super important indicators of how supportive we are of our local food economy, and even the health of our planet.

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In the news

News
Kearsarge Food Hub turns 10, celebrates new era of food security work
Kearsarge Food Hub turns 10, celebrates new era of food security work

Kathleen Bigford regarded Bradford, like she did most of New Hampshire, as a greying place.

Having lived in town for decades and taught at the ConVal district middle school in neighboring Antrim for 25 years, she’d seen many young people leave the area and pursue their passions elsewhere. Then, as she approached her retirement, five of them returned.

“They had gone to school together, had traveled the world and had decided, ‘We want to be in Bradford and establish a food network with local farmers and have a place where local people can buy local food,’” she recalled.

Kearsarge Food Hub: A Nurturing Space for the Community
Kearsarge Food Hub: A Nurturing Space for the Community

The Kearsarge Food Hub, in Bradford, New Hampshire, will celebrate its 10th year in 2025. Since its founding as Sweet Beet Farm a decade ago it has been transforming the concept of what a food hub is. Read more!

Sweet Beet Market reopens with community support after fire
Sweet Beet Market reopens with community support after fire

Lauren Howard was at home, recovering from a cold, when she got the news that Sweet Beet Market and Café, the store she’d spent the last decade building, was on fire.

It was the last thing any business owner wants to hear.

Read more.

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