Kearsarge Food Hub: A Nurturing Space for the Community

Sweet Beet Farm
Written By Kearsarge Food Hub

by Tim King | Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners | March 1st 2025

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.

Many food hubs center their activities on being what the United States Department of Agriculture refers to as an “aggregator.” A food hub is “a business or organization that actively manages the aggregation, distribution, and marketing of source-identified food products primarily from local and regional producers to strengthen their ability to satisfy wholesale, retail, and institutional demand,” according to the USDA’s booklet, “Running a Food Hub: A Business Operations Guide.”

The Kearsarge Food Hub sees the hub in a richer, more complex way than the USDA’s somewhat one-dimensional definition.

Kearsarge Food Hub

Kearsarge Food Hub, home of Sweet Beet, is a nonprofit organization 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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