From the bottom of our hearts, thank you so much to everyone who joined us for Love Local. If you missed it, no worries! The full recording is not on YouTube so you can watch and share at will.

If there’s one take-away from last night, it’s that our farmers and fishers need us, our food system needs us, and the problems we face can only be solved by working together! 
 

Read our 2023 Annual Report

Read how the work we do here at the Kearsarge Food Hub impacts the lives of real people in our community, especially young people who are out in the world making immediate and lasting change!

Many, many hands and hearts come together to make this work possible. Together we're forging a bright future for our local food system!

Thank you, community.

Watch our 2024 Annual Meeting

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!

NHPR: A new exhibit in Bradford shows how local farmers are responding to climate change.

The Climate Farmers Stories exhibit at Sweet Beet Market and Café in Bradford is telling the stories of local farmers who are responding to climate change.

Local artists and farmers teamed up to create portraits and infographics about their work building healthy ecosystems, like developing soil to store carbon through cover crops, rotating livestock grazing, and minimizing tilling.

Erica Hiller from Vital Communities, an Upper Valley nonprofit that organized the Climate Farmers Stories project, said farmers offer more to their communities than just producing food.

“In a time of climate change and pandemics and industrial supply chain breakdowns — there's no community resilience without farm resilience”…

NH Business Review: Food co-ops have been able to weather food supply chain challenges far effectively than larger grocery store competitors.

One silver lining from the pandemic is when supermarket shelves were empty, that’s when people started shopping locally, and more people started taking notice of how important it is to have a direct line to local farmers, Flanders said.

“Through our relationships with local farmers, we were able to supply our community,” she said. Considering the Kearsage Food Hub’s humble beginnings as a farmstand in 2015, that is not an unremarkable feat."

Studio 34 Podcast: Taking Initiative and Building Community with two of KFH’s Co-Founders France and Hanna

Big thanks to our friends at @studio34nh for taking the time to sit down with a couple KFH Co-Founders, France and Hanna, to hear more about the origins, philosophies, and work of KFH.

Find the Perplexed Much Podcast - Episode 8 "Taking Initiative and Building Community" - on Spotify and give it a listen! 🎶

Thank you to Studio 34 NH for your support of KFH and for your own efforts building community here in the Kearsarge Region. We appreciate you! Be sure to follow them for more awesome stuff.

Bradford Bridge: Abenaki Seeds

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.