Hub Happenings
We’re a nonprofit organization serving the greater Kearsarge Area on a mission to reinvigorate our community within a restorative local food system through cultivating food sovereignty, growing engaged learners, and nurturing community.
Here’s the lates news, upcoming events, and exciting things on the horizon for KFH and our local community!
Watch our 2024 Annual Meeting
In case you missed it, we have KFH’s 2024 Annual Meeting ready for you to watch at your convenience on our YouTube Channel.
We value the opportunity to report back to our community about the collective impact of Kearsarge Food Hub’s nonprofit service each year at our Annual Meeting. Thank you for tuning in and following the work of the Kearsarge Food Hub!
We do things on a small scale that have big impact. Think global, eat local!
Special thanks to:
All our generous donors - from folks that give $5 a month to folks who give $5000, this work is made possible thanks to the care of just under 500 donors
- Our Corporate Sponsors - Naughton & Son Recycling, Second Wind Water Systems, Walden Mutual Bank, Spring Ledge Farm, Bar Harbor Bank & Trust, and NOFA-NH
All the Staff, board members, and volunteers that lend their hands and hearts to the KFH mission!
Everyone who tuned in for the Annual Meeting - we’re so grateful you shared your evening with us!
5th Annual Tray it Forward!
Would it be helpful for you to receive free seedlings to get your garden started this year? Do you live in Andover, Bradford, Danbury, Newbury, New London, Springfield, Sunapee, Sutton, Warner or Wilmot? Are you eager to garden this summer?
Register for a free seedling tray through the Tray it Forward Program!
There are three options this year: a large tray with 24 plants, a small tray with 12 plants, and a container garden with 2 four packs of seedlings. Register by May 16th and seedlings will be ready May 29th. Select pick up or delivery on the registration form.
This program is made possible by community support! You can donate a tray for just $15. Spring Ledge Farm, where the baby seedlings are planted and cared for, will match your donation so one seedling tray becomes two.
If you’re new to gardening, that’s ok! The FEED Kearsarge team will support you with gardening education all summer long through newsletters, short how-to videos, and open garden hours. Join the e-newsletter list when you register for a tray to get all the goods or check out our gardening resource page here.
HUGE thanks to the FEED Kearsarge Partners that carry out this program: Spring Ledge Farm for growing the seedlings and providing supplies, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners for coordinating the project, Colby-Sawyer College for educational support, and New London Hospital for identifying needs in the community. KFH is honored to be a part of the team!
KFH in the Media
Bradford Bridge December Issue
A lovely write up of the Three Sisters Garden at Baby Beet Farm where 3rd graders have the chance to grow and harvest corns, beans, and squash for the Abenaki Seeds project.
Farming for Community & Resilience in the Kearsarge Area
The Food Solutions New England website is now home to a writeup about our 2023 Love Local video series in an effort to lift up the important stories and experiences of what the 2023 growing season was like for local and regional farmers.
Blog Posts
2022 Annual Report
Dearest Community, we are so very honored to present to you Kearsarge Food Hub’s 2022 Annual Report.
This document contains the stories of our community service through our various nonprofit programs - from Sweet Beet Farm + Market + Cafe to food security, education, and community building efforts. At the heart of these stories are the people - the folks that make up a growing community of local food warriors, each playing an essential role in reinvigorating our community within a restorative local food system.
This report is bursting at the seams with a tremendous amount of heart and dedicated, hard work. We thank all of you for being a part of this journey as we enter into our eighth year as an organization and continue to learn as we grow. It’s simply not possible without you.
A deep, heartfelt thank you to our sponsors.
Sweet Beet Market Sponsor
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“Imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we are eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true account, it really costs. We could then talk about some other things at dinner. For we would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and what we’re eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world.”
All photography provided by Kearsarge Food Hub.
We acknowledge that our work takes place on N’dakinna, which is the traditional ancestral homeland of the Abenaki, Pennacook and Wabanaki Peoples past and present. We acknowledge and honor with gratitude the land and waterways and the alnobak who have stewarded N’dakinna throughout the generations.