This Saturday, Oct. 3, Apple Annie will be participating in the Green Buildings Open House sponsored by the New Hampshire Sustainable Energy Association. For more information about the open house and other places you might want to visit, see www.nhsea.org.
From the BeerAdvocate website: http://beeradvocate.com/events/info/27553
Back on the New Hampshire Seacoast by popular demand, the NH Brew Fest is the premier event in NH for craft brewers from the entire NE region and beyond to showcase their talent. The Master Brewers Association of America New England Chapter will be hosting this event, with proceeds going to Prescott Park Arts Festival and the MBAA’s scholarship fund. This is a beer fest put on by brewers for craft brew lovers.
Redhook Brewery has kindly donated space for approximately thirty breweries to setup outside in a natural grass amphitheater. All breweries will be tented over in case of poor weather. Foliage season should be in full swing by this date.
Here’s the deal:
Date: October 3, 2009
Location: Redhook Brewery. Portsmouth, NH
Time: Two Sessions: 12-3 PM and 5-8 PM Maximum 1500 tix per session.
Breweries: 25-30 New England/North East Breweries
Beers: 90-100 different craft brews
What else: Live Music. Food. Unlimited samples with admission price (3-4 oz samples)
Price: $25.00 in advance/ $35 at door.
Click here for the full list of participating breweries and more details!
Premiere Craft Beer and Food Pairing Culinary Event To Be Held
At Historic Strawbery Banke Museum, Saturday, August 22nd
– Event Is Benefit for Strawbery Banke Museum and New Hampshire Public Television –
Regional craft beers paired with delicious local culinary creations, served at beautiful, historic Strawbery Banke Museum on the Seacoast – it’s the menu for a very appetizing summer collaboration that will benefit the Museum and New Hampshire Public Television. Presenting…Passport: A Craft Beer & Culinary World Tour, August 22 from 5:30 – 10 PM, featuring over a dozen carefully designed pairing stations at which guests can sample and learn about many of the world’s leading beer styles and the cuisines they complement, presented by numerous Seacoast fine dining establishments.
Special features of the event include a beer aged in barrels made by the Strawbery Banke cooper, “Brewing in NH” author Glenn Knoblock, and the beautiful, historic museum venue. A list of pairings and brewers’ notes, detailed event information and tickets are available at www.nhptv.org/passport.
“This event is an opportunity to showcase Strawbery Banke’s setting, while offering a fundraising opportunity for the museum and NHPTV,” noted Larry Yerdon, president of Strawbery Banke. “For those who enjoy learning about our regional beers and foods, and who appreciate the museum and NHPTV, this is an excellent way to further support both our organizations.”
Supporting brewery partners include: Smuttynose Brewing Company, The Portsmouth Brewery, Allagash, Moat Mountain and Tuckerman brewers. Participating restaurants and food purveyors include Black Trumpet, The Common Man, Popovers on the Square, The Galley Hatch, Four, The Dunaway, Blue Mermaid, Terra Cotta Pasta Co., Philbrick’s Fresh Market, Three Chimneys Inn, Tasty Thai, Lindt Chocolate, North Country Smokehouse and Cabot Cheese. Visit www.nhptv.org/passport for information about our beer and food partners, and the pairings.
About New Hampshire Public Television: NHPTV engages minds, connects communities, and celebrates New Hampshire with programs that entertain, educate and enrich. Beyond its award-winning local and national PBS television programs, New Hampshire Public Television is a leader in education and community outreach. www.nhptv.org
Portsmouth Public Library invites all backyard gardeners to their summer series of events on five Thursday evenings in July and August. Learn about garden restoration, herbal gardens, composting and the benefits of attracting honey bees to your garden. Plus enjoy a special movie night featuring music by Yo Yo Ma.
Click here for more details.
Seacoast Local and RiverRun Bookstore present the next author in their “Making the Connection” speaker series, a series that serves as a catalyst for continuing education, community connections, and sustainable change. Lisa M. Hamilton, author of Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness, will be at RiverRun Bookstore on Saturday, June 27 . Hamilton will take us beyond local food and into the lives of western farmers who are David to the Goliath of corporate agriculture.
The event is co-sponsored by Slow Food Seacoast, and it starts at 6 pm with the debut of their new game “Who Wants to Be a Locavore?” Local food writer Rachel Forrest will host this trivia challenge, there will be prizes galore and as always, refreshments of the local variety will be served.
Lisa M. Hamilton will present her talk at 7 pm. The journalist and photographer spent two years profiling three families in rural America who represent a change in the way we should think about food and agriculture.
As with The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Deeply Rooted suggests one of the best ways to address the problems with our nation’s food system is to go straight to the source—the farmers themselves.
Over the past forty years, many American farmers and ranchers have been told to “get big or get out.” Countless people within agriculture have been replaced with machines, and their farms with corporate agribusinesses. The large-scale industrialization that followed has altered the face of American agriculture with dire environmental and economic consequences, and endangered the health and wellbeing of consumers.
Now, across the country, a courageous group of farmers and ranchers have issued a call to arms to end these unhealthy and unsustainable practices. To them, agriculture is not an industry but a way of life, and humans should be at the heart of it all. Among these farmers are
• Harry Lewis: an African-American dairyman in Texas who dreams of addressing Congress one day
• Virgil Trujillo: a tenth-generation New Mexico rancher who believes agriculture could be the salvation of his impoverished hometown
• David, Dan and Theresa Podoll: North Dakotan organic farmers whose vision for a more sustainable way of farming is derided by their neighbors
Scorned, ridiculed, and dismissed for their unconventional beliefs and faith in people, Harry Lewis, Virgil Trujillo, and the Podoll family prove to be the real mavericks of our time. By telling their stories, Hamilton has given a human face to agriculture, and serves up an important lesson about bringing farmers back to the table at a time when we need them more than ever.
Lisa M. Hamilton’s work has been published in National Geographic Traveler, Harper’s Magazine, The Nation, Orion, and Gastronomica. She lives in northern California.
RiverRun Bookstore is located at 20 Congress Street in downtown Portsmouth. The event is free and open to the public.
For more details on the event, call 603-431-2100 or visit www.riverrunbookstore.com. For more information on Seacoast Local, including its “Buy Local” program, call 603-766-1775 or visit www.seacoastlocal.org. The Slow Food Seacoast website is at www.slowfoodseacoast.org.
From our friends at the Seacoast Growers Association (SGA):
Seacoast Growers Association is pleased to announce the start of its weekday farmers’ markets in Dover, Durham, Exeter, Hampton and Kingston. In addition to new vendors, this year brings the Exeter market a full two weeks early, and offers a new location with great accessibility in Dover.
The Exeter Farmers’ Market starts May 21st in the Swasey Parkway, off Water Street in downtown Exeter, Thursdays from 2:15 to 6:00 p.m.
The Dover Farmers’ Market starts June 3rd in its new home in the parking lot of the Herbal Path at 835 Central Ave., Wednesdays from 2:15 to 6:00 p.m.
The Durham Farmers’ Market starts June 1st in the parking lot of Durham Bike on Pettee Brook Lane in the downtown loop.
The Hampton Farmer’s Market starts June 2nd in the Sacred Heart School parking lot, across from the post office just north of Route 101, Tuesdays from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m.
The Kingston Farmer’s Market also starts June 2nd and is located “on the plains” across from the fire station on Main Street / Route 111, Tuesdays from 2:15 to 5:30 p.m.
SGA’s weekly Saturday market in Portsmouth opened the first week of May. It is held in the City Hall parking lot on Junkins Ave., from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
While maintaining an agricultural focus, SGA farmers’ markets also are proud to offer fresh seafood and quality prepared foods such as jams, cookie dough, honey mead, and blended teas. Our skilled artisans also present some of the finest crafts on the Seacoast, ranging from woven reed baskets, pottery and leather work to goat milk soap, herbal medicine, jewelry and Chinese brush paintings.
All SGA markets are open rain or shine and offer the “SGA Guarantee”: Our products are grown and made by our own vendors here on the Seacoast.
Now in its 33rd year, Seacoast Growers’ Association is a state-registered nonprofit organization representing 57 local independent businesses. SGA works closely with Seacoat Eat Local, Seacoast Local and Slow Food Seacoast, all of whom can be found every Saturday at the Portsmouth Farmers’ Market Information Booth. Volunteer Local Food Advocates are also welcome to join this local food movement; free training is provided.
Our monthly e-newsletter provides special recipes and updates on what foods and flowers are in season. To sign up or for more information on any of our programs or markets, including maps to all six locations and a full list of vendors, visit www.seacoastgrowers.org.
At RiverRun Bookstore on Monday, May 18 at 7 pm: a free workshop on New Ideas for Preserving Nature: Useful Tips for NH Landowners, Gardeners, and Landscapers
With rural areas fast disappearing in the Northeast, it seems the only way to preserve our identity as a place where people, plants, and animals can share the land is to integrate the landscapes around our homes, communities, and work spaces with the natural world. What does that mean and how do you do it?
And what about landscaping’s far-reaching effects on water quality? No matter where you live in New Hampshire, the actions you take make a difference. Why? Because we all live in a watershed, where water drains into a lake, river, wetland, or coastal estuary. How do we protect that natural resource?
Take some time to “sit at the feet” of experts who will share what they’ve learned—and taught—over many years. Mary Tebo, a community forestry educator, and Lauren Chase-Rowell, a landscape design expert, will present information from two books they’ve co-authored with other experts: Landscaping at the Water’s Edge: An Ecological Approach and Integrated Landscaping: Following Nature’s Lead, both published by the UNH Cooperative Extension.
You will learn
RiverRun Bookstore is located at 20 Congress Street in downtown Portsmouth. For more information on the event, visit www.riverrunbookstore.com or call (603) 431-2100. The event is free and open to the public.
Join Nature’s Wonders for their first cooking class for adults. Clariza Simo will be the guest chef–learn some great Latin cooking!
WHAT: Teach and eat (an intimate cooking experience). Come learn to make a tasty gourmet meal. You will enjoy yummy bellinis while learning a wonderful and easy recipe. After the lesson is complete you get to eat the treat–think of it as an educational brunch!
WHERE: Nature’s Wonders Amazing Kitchen at 550 Brackett Rd in Rye, New Hampshire
WHEN: May 16th at 10:30, May 17th at 12:00
COST: $28 (includes lesson plus food and drink)
Space is limited so reserve your spot now!!! Contact natureswonders@gmail.com or (603) 436-6756
Portsmouth Farmers’ Market Tours will be available on Saturday, May 9, in conjunction with the Sustainability Fair at the Middle School. Volunteers will meet tour-goers at the fairgrounds and lead them up the hill to the market, where they’ll receive a personalized tour, introductions to the vendors, and tips on how to choose and purchase items at a farmers’ market. There is no charge, and tours are expected to last 45 minutes. They will be conducted every half-hour from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Map of the Portsmouth Farmers’ Market location
The Backyard Farming Series at the Madbury Public Library - free and open to the public. For more info contact the Madbury Public Library, 9 Town Hall Road, Madbury, NH 03823, 603-743-1400, www.Madburylibrary.org
“Bees: Getting started in backyard honeybee-keeping”, presented by Amy Antonucci, April 29 at 7pm
“From Seed to Farm stand”, presented by Jill Leavenworth, May 6 at 7pm
“Chickens in your backyard, eggs in the basket!”, presented by Peter Leavenworth, May 20 at 7pm
“Build a root cellar in your own basement”, presented by Craig Stephan, May 27 at 7pm
Thistleridge Farm in Dover has chicks for sale: broilers, NH reds, white leghorns, Red Silkies, Aracanas, Buff Brahmas, and Barred Rock X. They also have fertile eggs for hatching, chicken, duck, goose and quail, and rent incubators with eggs included! If you’re looking for more ready-to-eat food, they have eggs: goose, chicken, quail, turkey and duck. For more information call Sherri at 603-740-9332
Home Cheesemaking: Ricotta & Mozzarella
Learn to make your own unprocessed, local cheese right at home. Through a lecture and demonstrations, this introduction to home cheesemaking will get you started on making ricotta and mozzarella and may include yogurt and goat cheese if time allows. Basic equipment and procedures will be covered. This one-night workshop by Debra Kam and Lenore Smith will be held on Tuesday, May 19, from 6–8:30 p.m. Course fee is $30. Supplies included. To register, call Joyce at the adult ed office at 775-8457 or stop by the office 8:30 AM -3:00 PM M-F at 30 Linden Street (old Exeter High School), entrance D, room 137.
Nourishing Your Family From the Inside Out: Earth-friendly Cooking and Wellness Classes
"The everyday act of eating is a great way to interact with your community and a great entry point for changing the world. ... You can show your values through how you eat."
—Josh Viertel, President, Slow Food USA (SmartPlanet.com)
