Events
We love gathering with you!
Kearsarge Food Hub events, both online and in person, are great opportunities to connect with a community of folks committed to building a resilient local food system and enjoying the fruits of our local lands! We hope you’ll save the date for our annual events, and stay tuned in for more opportunities to get together!
Back to School Food Drive
This Hunger Action Month, we’re bringing back our Back to School Food Drive with a big goal: 1,000+ grocery items for our Community FREEdge! Starting September 1st, buy 3+ Food Drive items to donate and save 10% on your entire Market purchase. It’s a simple, joyful way to take action close to home and help keep nourishing food available to our neighbors. Let’s fill that FREEdge!
6th Annual Community Fair
At the 6th Annual Community Fair, we’re bringing together local farmers and makers, delicious food, live tunes, and hands-on activities for a celebration you won’t want to miss.
Whether you're coming for the great food, cute farm animals, fun games, or good vibes, there is truly something here for everyone. It’s fun for the whole family—and free to attend!
Fall Farm + Forest Club
Registration for the Farm + Forest Club fall session is now open!
Farm + Forest Club is a drop off, once a week, immersive outdoor education program where students gather together with peers and educators to grow and eat food, connect to nature, and build their environmental science knowledge and skills.
Listen Local: Vickie Branch & Caboose!
Eat local. Shop local. Listen local.
Take a breather this Labor Day weekend with good food & live music.
Featuring Vickie Branch + Caboose from 11 AM–2 PM.
Grab a bite, bring your people & stay awhile.
Taste Local & Meet Your Farmer: Singing Pond Farm
Meet Jack Perez of Singing Pond Farm, taste some of his freshly grown veggies, and discover the people and passion behind your local food at Sweet Beet Market!
Founded in 2023, Singing Pond Farm is a family-owned farm growing produce and cut flowers using sustainable, low-till, organic farming practices. Jack and Audrey started the farm with a mission that goes beyond growing good food: strengthening the local food system, building community connections, and sharing a portion of each harvest with local organizations working to address food insecurity.
NOK Vino Tasting
We're excited to welcome our good friends at NOK Vino back to Sweet Beet for an afternoon of tasting and conversation.
Join us to sample these artisanal wines, learn more about the people, places, and farming practices behind each bottle, and discover a new favorite.
Come curious, sip local, and celebrate the farmers and makers helping our communities thrive.
August FEED Kearsarge Coalition Meeting
Connect at the August FEED Kearsarge Coalition meeting!
FEED Kearsarge is a food access coalition bringing together all the stakeholders working to fight hunger and build food and nutrition security in the Kearsarge Region.
Taste Local: Blaisdell Hill Farm
Celebrate local food on August 9! Meet Blaisdell Hill Farm, sample fresh produce, and celebrate two former Kearsarge Food Hub apprentices turned farmers.
NOFA-NH Organic Rising Screening
New Hampshire’s diversified, organic farms nourish our communities. They promote local economies, steward soil health, feed precious pollinators, and keep valuable farmland in production.
Save the date for a free film screening of the documentary Organic Rising at Red River Theatres in Concord on Thursday, August 6th to celebrate their efforts and learn more during NH Eats Local Month!
Short Creek Farm Meats Tasting
Join us on July 25th from 11 am - 2 pm to meet Jeff Backer, founder and farmer at Short Creek Farm. Come taste a variety of handcrafted meats, rooted in good farming. Short Creek supplies a lot of our bacon, sausages, salamis and more!
Summer Benefit Gala
Join us for an unforgettable evening at Soonipi Hollow Farm as we gather to strengthen our community's food, farm, and nutrition security!
We hope you’ll join us for a special evening with friends, neighbors, and fellow changemakers - people who care deeply about the land, the people, and the community that make this region we all call home so special.
Hermit Woods Winery Tasting
Join us as we welcome Hermit Woods Winery of Meredith for an afternoon of tasting and conversation.
Come curious, sip local, and celebrate the makers helping our communities thrive.
Farm Bill Chit Chat
Join us online for a chat to learn what the Farm Bill is and how it impacts both farming practices and food assistance programs.
Get an update on where this legislation is heading and how we can advocate for what matters for our community.
Hosted by CARHE in partnership with the Kearsarge Food Hub and special guests!
FEED Kearsarge Coalition July Meeting
Join the next FEED Kearsarge Coalition Meeting to learn about a very exciting effort to get more gleaning, food recovery, and equitable food distribution going in the Kearsarge Region!!
As the FEED Kearsarge backbone team, Kearsarge Food Hub and Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners have created a proposal to do significant planning and development of channels that glean and recover food to distribute to neighbors needing greater access to food.
NOBL Beverages Tasting
From refreshing botanical teas to smooth nitro cold brew, we're excited to welcome NOBL Beverages to Sweet Beet for an afternoon of tasting and discovery.
Come curious, sip local, and celebrate the makers helping our communities thrive.
Bradford Independence Day
Bradford's 250th Independence Day Celebration
Saturday, June 27th, all day!!
Come enjoy a community-wide celebration honoring 250th Independence Date. The day will include all sorts of family fun, from the 5k road race, parade, games and activities, and fireworks. Come grab all your local goodies at Sweet Beet Market + Cafe!
Taste Local: LaBelle Winery
Sip local. Discover something new.
Sample artisan-crafted wines from LaBelle Winery and find your next favorite bottle.
Free tasting at Sweet Beet Market & Café | June 20 | 11 AM–2 PM.
Open Mic: Live Music Raising funds for KFH
Open Mic - Live Music Raising funds for KFH
Friday, June 19th 7pm
Come enjoy some great tunes by local band Half Dead featuring Brick Moltx and Rich Cohn in the community room at Sweet Beet Market + Cafe. 11 West Main Street, Bradford NH.
By donation with funds supporting Kearsarge Food Hub's food security programming.
FEED Kearsarge Coalition Meeting
What does a food-secure Kearsarge area look like in 5 years? Let’s build it together.
You’re invited to the next FEED Kearsarge Coalition Meeting, on Thursday, June 18th from 1-2pm on zoom.
Whether you are a local producer, community organizer, or a neighbor who cares about food access, your voice matters.
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Join the next FEED Kearsarge Coalition Meeting to learn about a very exciting effort to get more gleaning, food recovery, and equitable food distribution going in the Kearsarge Region!!
As the FEED Kearsarge backbone team, Kearsarge Food Hub and Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners have created a proposal to do significant planning and development of channels that glean and recover food to distribute to neighbors needing greater access to food.
SHEI Open House and Family Day
Sniff, nibble, explore, & play, then take a garden away!
SHEI is delighted to partner with Kelly Dwyer of Nature Education Opportunities, and Xochi Salazar of the Kearsarge Food Hub (KFH) to host a celebration of our natural world!
Children will explore the wonders of NH's wetlands by creating investigation stations to examine the insects living in the pond’s muddy substrate, searching the water's edge for mammal tracks and amphibious life, and challenging each other to peek at critters in the "mystery habitat containers."
Garden Party Plant Sale Extravaganza
Join us for our 2nd Annual Garden Party Plant Sale Extravaganza!
Planning your Summer Garden? Look no further. We have organic vegetable, herb and flower starts from Good Earth Farm in Weare, NH
We’ll also have vendor tastings, live music, and more.
Save the date for this official kick-off of Summer Sweet Beet style!
Grow with Us Monthly Giving Campaign!
Help us grow the next generation of growers, mindful eaters, and land stewards!
We have a mission—and a deadline. To keep our programs rooted and growing, we must increase KFH’s monthly income by $1,500 by MAY 24th.
Right now, hundreds of young people across the Kearsarge Region rely on our farm and garden education to learn, eat, and thrive. But we can’t sustain this vital work on hope alone.
We need sustainable, predictable support.
2026 Annual Meeting
We're thrilled to present Kearsarge Food Hub's Annual Meeting IN PERSON for the first time ever on Thursday, May 7th from 5:30-7:30.
We'll gather at the newly renovated Bradford Town Hall with delicious food from Sweet Beet Cafe and dig into the collective impact of our nonprofit work from last year and the past decade of service.
Can’t make it in person? Tune in online!
2026 Farm + Forest Club Spring Session
We are so excited to announce that the Kearsarge Food Hub's Farm + Forest Club is BACK, open to children ages 6-11.
Farm + Forest Club is a drop off, once a week, immersive outdoor education program held Thursdays from 10am-4pm.
Multi-week sessions will be held throughout the year in Spring, Summer & Fall. Students will gather together with peers and educators to grow and eat food, connect to nature, and build their environmental science knowledge and skills.
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.
2026 Tray it Forward Sign up!
7th Annual Tray it Forward!
There are SO many ways to grow food at home, even if you don’t have a lot of extra time, money, or space!
The Tray it Forward project offers free seedlings if you need a hand getting your garden started.
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.
Southern Charm Farm CHEESE & Peony Place SOURDOUGH Tasting!
TRY NEW CHEESE!!!! What an exciting day because there is a new cheese on the block.
Have you heard of Southern Charm Farm in Hopkinton, NH? This local farm is making quality artisan cheeses that are hand-crafted, made with the freshest local ingredients, and best of all they are made with the intention to bring people together!
Come visit these cheese-makers at Sweet Beet on Saturday March 21st between 11 AM and 2 PM to get your hands on this beautiful and absolutely exceptional and delicious cheese.
2026 Abenaki Seeds Project Sign Up!
Kearsarge Food Hub (home of Sweet Beet) is partnering with Abenaki Trails Project, Abenaki Helping Abenaki Food Pantry, and the Hopkinton Historical Society to support year SIX of the Abenaki Seeds Project!
If you’re interested in growing the three sisters—corn, beans, and squash—sign up for the project today so that we can prepare a package of seeds just for you!
Wine and Cheese Tasting with Abbot Hill Cheese + NOK Vino
Fun fact about Abbot Hill: this “pasture to table” cheese is only sold within a 50 mile range of where it’s made in Wilton, NH. So, if you are looking for a super authentic, delicious and very LOCAL cheese, come try something new on Saturday March 14th from 11 AM - 2 PM.
Abbot Hill Creamery has a goal to use their passion for the art of cheese making to bring you amazing cheeses that you will love. They use quality ingredients and collaborate with southern New Hampshire dairy farmers and their cows to produce a wide variety of soft and hard cheeses.
KNP Volunteer Meet and Greet at Sweet Beet Market + Cafe
Looking to get connected in the Kearsarge Community?
Join us for a meet & greet with local nonprofit Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners on Saturday, March 14th from 10am -11:30am at Sweet Beet Market + Cafe.