FEED Kearsarge
Food Expansion, Education, Distribution

FEED Kearsarge is a partnership of local organizations organized around advancing food security and food sovereignty in the Kearsarge/Lake Sunapee region.

The mission of FEED Kearsarge is to pursue creative and collaborative ways of supporting food security in the Kearsarge area. This initiative brings together the various voices, perspectives, and skill sets needed to find community-wide solutions that advance food security for all.

Summer Gardening Video Series

Visit Leon in the garden to support our growing journeys! Video topics include planting your garden, caring for your tomatoes, and pests and fertilizers.

See the full playlist of how-to gardening videos!

Victory Garden Toolkit

In the fall of 2022, UNH Cooperative Extension joined up with FEED Kearsarge partners to create a Victory Garden Toolkit - a comprehensive map and set of tools for anyone looking to start a community garden, replicate the Tray it Forward program, or just get started gardening at home!

The toolkit is full of helpful links, outlines, processes, and reflections on the successes and challenges of FEED Kearsarge programs as we continue to learn and adapt to the needs of our community.

Please share widely with anyone who might benefit from this toolkit.

This toolkit is funded by the USDA.

Victory Garden Toolkit

Programs of FEED Kearsarge

The Tray it Forward Program: Free seedling trays sponsored by community donors and local garden center Spring Ledge Farm delivered to families and community garden sites.

Abenaki Seeds Project: Home gardeners growing three sisters gardens to learn Indigenous growing practices and donate back to Abenaki Helping Abenaki food pantry.

Glean Kearsarge: Rescuing produce from farms that might otherwise go to waste and distributing through food pantries and a community FREEdge.

4th Annual Tray it Forward Program: Tray Delivery Day 202w

Victory Garden Revival & Garden Education: Helping to build and support more gardens in our area at community sites and homes.

Beyond food security, we’re working together to build community, share knowledge, and cultivate JOY as well as fresh, healthy local foods. That’s food sovereignty!