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5th Annual Tray it Forward: Celebrating Half a Decade of Growing Gardeners
After half a decade of serving the surrounding community, it is a great time to take a stroll through memory lane and recount the growth (pun intended) of the Tray it Forward project!
From lawn to fertile garden: Learn how in this 6 minute video!
We’re back with Professor Leon Malan in the Colby-Sawyer College permaculture garden where he takes us from compacted lawn to a fertile garden space that’s ready for your seedlings.
Celebrating Earth Day! Make your own compost at home with these short videos.
What’s one small thing you can do at home to help the planet this Earth Day? Start your own compost system at home!
40 Under Forty: Honoring KFH's own France Hahn!
The Kearsarge Food Hub (KFH) family is celebrating our own France Hahn as a recipient of the 2024 Union Leader’s 40 Under Forty award!
February is for Food Drives Part Two: How can you help fight hunger in the Kearsarge area?
Here at the Kearsarge Food Hub (KFH), we’re on a mission to reinvigorate our community within a restorative local food system. One of the main pillars of this work is increasing food access - and healthy food choices - to support both food and nutrition security for more neighbors.
February is for Food Drives Part One: What’s the state of Hunger in New Hampshire?
When you think about hunger, you might think that it’s something that happens in a far away place, something that’s “out there” in the world. The truth of the matter is, hunger is a pervasive problem not just “out there,” but right here at home in New Hampshire.
Micro Mama’s Celebrates Solar! Resources for food & ag businesses to transition to clean energy.
Stephanie Zydenbos, Micro Mama’s fearless leader, is an emblem of heart centered food production as community service. She was called to bring Micro Mama’s to life eight years ago, just as the living ecology of the fermented veggies she creates helps bring us to life when we eat them.
Tasty Morsels: 2023 Highlights from the KFH Community
2023 was a rich, dynamic, and delightful year here at the Kearsarge Food Hub - thanks to you! As we move into a new year, grateful as ever to be in service and collaboration with you, we would love to take a moment and celebrate ten highlights from 2023.
3rd Annual Community Fair Reflections
Dearest community - thank you for a delightful and invigorating Community Fair on the Autumn Equinox! We had a positively wonderful time on the lawn of Sweet Beet celebrating local food, farms, and community with you.
NH Eats Local Part 3: How we live free + eat local.
Here we are at the end of August and the end of NH Eats Local month. This month we’ve explored KFH origins, community, how we create access to local foods, economic impact, farm-based education programs, and the team that makes it all possible.
NH Eats Local Part 2: Economy, Farm Education, & Team
August is NH Eats Local Month and we’re taking a moment to celebrate our local food system and the people that make it possible.
NH Eats Local Part 1: Origins, Community, Access.
August is NH Eats Local Month, a fantastic time to savor the bounty of our local food system and celebrate the people who make it all possible.
Summer Gardening Video Series: Garden Maintenance
We’re back in the garden at Colby-Sawyer College with Professor Leon Malan to explore a few key areas of garden maintenance:
Summer Gardening Video Series: In the Garden with Leon!
Here at the Kearsarge Food Hub (KFH), we’re grateful to be a part of two local networks geared toward growing more gardeners in the Kearsarge Area - FEED Kearsarge and the Abenaki Seeds Project.
4th Annual Tray it Forward: 8000 seedlings make their way to homes & community sites.
The Tray it Forward Program began in 2020 as a collaborative way to build community, share gardening education, and grow more food. This was really in response to the COVID pandemic and the struggles we were facing as a community, like difficulty accessing food and strained supply chains.
Sweet Beet Café Survey Results & Next Steps
As promised, since Sweet Beet Café temporarily closed, we’ve been hard at work figuring out how to reopen with a model that serves the needs of our community, is sustainable for our team, and works on a responsible financial model that our patrons and supporters can feel good about.
Top 5 Soil Building Practices on Sweet Beet Farm
This Earth Day, we want to talk about one of our favorite topics here at the Kearsarge Food Hub - SOIL!
Abenaki Seeds Project: Nurturing a Community of Growers
At the Kearsarge Food Hub (KFH), we’re gearing up to support year three of the Abenaki Seeds Project in partnership with Abenaki Trails, Hopkinton Historical Society, Warner Public Market, and Colby-Sawyer College.
Food Sovereignty begins with farmer support.
Food sovereignty is one of three guiding nonprofit initiatives that make up our mission here at the Kearsarge Food Hub.
KFH's Farm Based Education: An Important Update
At KFH we have a vision of offering multiple layers of farm-based education to students in order to help young people find their place in nature and in community.