Kearsarge Area Eat Local (KAEL)

• Based in Warner, NH

• Promote concept of eating local

• Sponsor public events

– Films

– Speakers

– Book discussions

Work To Date

• Objective: to identify, analyze, and make recommendations for our local food system

• Group Work

• Farm Visits

• In Class Lectures

• Food Outlets

• Agricultural Trend

Analysis

Kearsarge Area Farms 3D Farm Amesbury Fruit Apple Farm Apple Ridge Farm Apple Rock Battles Farm Beaver Meadowbrook Farm Beech Hill Farm Bible Hill Farm Black Bear Vineyard Blue Moon Berry Farm Bokaja Enterprises Breakwind Farm Cascade Brook Farm Contoocook Creamery at Bohanan Farm Courser Farm Crimson Maple Farm Cutting Farm Dancin' Apple Farm Fairhaven Farm Fall Dog Farm

Freedom Hill Farm French Pond Orchard Gage Hill Sugar Shack Gould Hill Farm Haunting Whisper Vineyard Hazzard Acres Farm Henwyn Farm Highland Lake Highway View Hopewell Farm Huntoon Farm Kearsarge Gore Farm Marshall Farm Mountain Farm Musterfield Farm North Of Concord Odey Farm Owen Farm Peak Orchard Phoenix Hill Farm Pine Lane Dairy Porkside Farm

Pustizzi Fruit Farm Ragged View Farm Random Hills Farm Richardson Farm Riverfare Farm Rollins Road Apiary Russell’s Blueberries Siskagee Goat Dairy Springledge Farm Star Lake Farm Stoneridge Farm Stonynook Farm Tucker Mountain Maple Co-Op Two Mountain Farm Up Sheeps' Creek Valley View Maple Farm Vegetable Ranch Warner River Organics Webster Ridge Farm Work Song Farm Wychwood Farm Yankee Farmer's Market

Farms Visits

Two Mountain Farm

• Operated by Kat Darling

• Located in Andover, NH

• Vegetable crops, chickens, sheep

• 32 Family CSA

Contoocook Creamery at Bohanan Farm

• Heather and Jamie Robertson own and operate

• 417 acres of land in conservation easement

• Contoocook Creamery launched in November of 2010

• House 200 Holstein Cows, 170 other livestock

Gould Hill Farm

• Owners Tim and Amy Bassett

• Located in Contoocook, NH

• Farm about 20 acres

• Apple, plums, peaches, nectarines

• Farm stand that sells their products and other local products

Yankee Farmer’s Market

• Owned and operated by Brian and Keira Farmer

• Farm 20 acres in Warner, 300 acres in Hillsborough, 1,000 in New Boston

• Have a farm stand and sell buffalo, elk, ostrich, venison, Contoocook Creamery milk, and local products

Yankee Farmer’s Market Warner, NH

Farmers’ Markets

• Warner Farmers’ Market

• Contoocook Farmers’ Market

• Henniker Farmers’ Market

• Market on the Green (New London)

• Andover Farmers’ Market

• Wilmot Farmers’ Market

• Newbury Farmers’ and Artisans’ Market

• Bradford Farmers’ Market

Musterfield Farm N. Sutton, NH

Upper Valley Lake Sunapee Regional Planning Commission

• Food Mapping Survey

– Food Accessibility

– Healthier Options

Supermarket Data

• Survey of

– The New Harvester Market in Henniker

– Market Basket in Warner

– Colonial Village Pharmacy and Supermarket in Contoocook

– Hannaford’s and Kearsarge Coop in New London

Average Milk Prices per Half Gallon

Type Average Price

Local $2.98

Organic $3.87

Conventional $2.08

Restaurants Serving Local Food

Alan’s of Boscawen Restaurant & Lounge Boscawen

Henniker Bed & Breakfast Henniker

Colby Hill Inn Henniker

St. George’s Café Henniker

Mary’s Bakery & Café Henniker

Daniel’s Restaurant & Pub Henniker

Henniker Junction Restaurant Henniker

The Everyday Café Hopkinton

Cathy’s Kitchen Hopkinton

The Flying Goose New London

Ellie’s Café & Deli New London

Rockwell’s at the New London Inn New London

Hole in the Fence Café New London

Sterling College Craftsbury, VT

Hardwick, Vermont Visit

• Collaboration

– Share equipment, resources, and knowledge

– Center for an Agricultural Economy

– Symbiotic relationship between farmers

Hardwick, Vermont Food System

Nurseries

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Work Song Farm Hopkinton, NH

Kearsarge Local Food System

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External Inputs

Internal Inputs and Outputs

Strengths of the System

• Knowledge/information from area farmers

• Money/capital

• Outlets - farmers’ markets, farm stands, CSA’s

• Farmable land

• Close proximity to major cities (Concord, Lebanon, Boston)

• Major traffic route (I-89)

• Agricultural resources through co-operative extension available

Development Opportunities within the System

• Processing/distribution facilities

• Local composting facility

• Out of season availability

• Costs for labor/marketing

• Lack of connections to consumers (identifying reliable local suppliers)

• Greater local food awareness

Gould Hill Orchard Contoocook, NH

Demographics of Kearsarge Local Area

• Kearsarge Local Area Total Population in 2009: 39,691

• Farms In Kearsarge Area: 64

• Average Median Age In 2009: 43.4

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Regional Agricultural Trends

Gould Hill Orchard Contoocook, NH

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Musterfield Farm N. Sutton, NH

Future Plans

• Distributing/analyzing survey and results

• Potential customers

• Incorporating inputs

– Policies

– Obstacles

• Demographic data analysis