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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Love Local: Meeting the Moment!

Right now, there is so much going on in our bigger world that feels way out of our control. It’s easy to feel hopeless or overwhelmed by current events, leaving us wondering what can we do to help or where should we even start??

That’s why this year’s theme, Love Local: Meeting the Moment, emphasizes the importance and power of collective action on the local level. We’ll examine the state of our food landscape here in NH and discover tangible ways to invest in a healthier, more equitable food future for everyone.

Pre-order your Thanksgiving Turkey, Sides & Meals. Donate a meal to a neighbor

Fresh turkeys, turkey parts, and hams. Sides made with love in Sweet Beet Kitchen plus whole dinners, ready to enjoy! Quality ingredients from your local farmer! Buy a meal to donate to a neighbor who is impacted by the government shutdown and rising food costs.

Pre-oder today!

2025 Marks the 10 Year Anniversary of the Kearsarge Food Hub!

It started with a pilot project: growing veggies on Sweet Beet Farm and selling them, along with products from 30+ producers within a 30-mile radius, at Sweet Beet Farm Stand on Route 114 in Bradford, NH.

Today, KFH has grown into a dynamic nonprofit organization with community services that include Sweet Beet Farm + Market + Café, food security and educational programming, and efforts to build community connections around vibrant agriculture and nourishing local food!

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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.

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Events

Events
Order Local Thanksgiving Turkeys and Hams!
Oct 21
Order Local Thanksgiving Turkeys and Hams!

Time to order 🦃🍗 Thanksgiving turkeys, turkey parts and hams!

Turkeys are fresh and naturally raised from Misty Knoll Farms in New Haven, Vermont. Whole turkeys are $6.69 per pound.

When you order online or in person (or call us! 603-938-5323) you will be able to choose the weight of the bird you'd like. The general rule is to plan for 1 1/2 pounds per guest. If you're buying boneless meat, assume about 8 ounces per guest.

We also have turkey parts:

Boneless Breast
Bone-In Breast
Leg Quarter (Thigh and Drum)
Bone-In Thigh

Learn more and order online at bit.ly/thanksgiving-turkey-orders

Pick up hours (at Sweet Beet) will be:
Tuesday, 11/25

10:00am-6:00pm

Wednesday, 11/26

10:00am-6:00pm

Order Deadline is Friday November 14th by 6:00 PM.

2025 Love Local: Meeting the Moment
Nov 6
2025 Love Local: Meeting the Moment

You are warmly invited to Kearsarge Food Hub’s 5th Annual Love Local: Meeting the Moment event on November 6th from 6:30-8:00pm.

What makes this year’s Love Local event so special is we have an amazing group of leaders joining us for a panel discussion.

These are some of the leading minds in food and agriculture from across New Hampshire who are meeting the moment and adapting in real time as the food and agriculture landscape shifts and new challenges present themselves every day.

We'll hear directly from them about their work, the organizations they lead, and how we can all join them in meeting this moment through showing up and taking action one step at a time.

From the blog

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SNAP Freeze Response Plan
SNAP Freeze Response Plan

The community responds to support folks as federal food assistance disappears.

Starting November 1st, federal food assistance programs like SNAP and WIC that help over 42 million Americans afford to buy food will be frozen due to the government shutdown.

Here’s how we’re meeting the moment.

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New Leadership Sparks Fresh Beginnings at Kearsarge Food Hub!
New Leadership Sparks Fresh Beginnings at Kearsarge Food Hub!

The Kearsarge Food Hub team is excited to share that we have hired a new Executive Director to help us grow into the next decade: Rob McGregor!

We had many great candidates for this position, and Rob rose to the surface a committed leader with both the skills and the heart to help the organization grow meaningfully into the years ahead.

Rob brings to the Kearsarge Food Hub a track record of nonprofit leadership, with deep experience in financial, strategic and organizational management.

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There’s a new farmer in town!
There’s a new farmer in town!

Farmer Jake finishes his farmer apprenticeship on Sweet Beet Farm here at the Kearsarge Food Hub!

Jake McCormack-Lashier and his partner Cassie were Kearsarge Food Hub’s first farmer apprentices five years ago, and Jake has been deepening his learning on Sweet Beet Farm every year since then.

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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.

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