Farmers Markets: The Good, The Bad, The New
I’m a Farmers Market fan. I love going to a well stocked market, talking to farmers and giving them money for their products. Farmers Markets are a connection to farming we lost when supermarkets took...
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The Most Dangerous Predator (might not be what you think!)
What do you think is the most dangerous predator to cattle? Coyotes? Bears? Flies? It’s flies, yes, flies. Believe it or not, in our case, flies have killed more of our calves than any four legged...
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Consider 2015 The Year of the Apple
The cows followed me from tree to tree as I knocked down apples. I kept my head down, afraid of a direct hit, as the apples plummeted down on me and the cows. The grass this year suffered from lack of...
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Obedient Cattle
“Look at that bull! He’s going to come over here and stab you with his horns!” The boy, about eight years old, was sharing his knowledge of horned cattle with his younger brother at the Deerfield Fair....
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Dangerous Porcines?
“Just throw some feed on the floor of the pen. That will give you time to fill the outside feeder,” was advice from Teresa, our hog “master.” That distracted the fourteen piglets a few times until they...
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Living with a Pig
The porch floor was covered with bits of recycled paper for the second time in one day. The trash can was still upright thanks to a ten pound rock at the bottom of the can. The culprit, a full grown...
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Happy Moo Year
Chocolate Moo at one day old. Now he’s seven months old. I didn’t see the kick coming but I should have expected it. We had just weaned eleven calves from their moms and one of the calves, Chocolate...
View ArticleSummer entrepreneur: Concord grad starts ice cream truck business
Ethan Stockman wanted to do something big the summer after he graduated from Concord High School. After spending the previous summer vacation weed-whacking and doing grounds work at St. Paul’s School,...
View ArticleFresh from the farm: Tour and Taste at Dimond Hill Farm
Dimond Hill Farm is welcoming members of Five Rivers Conservation Trust for a tour of the farm’s property and a tasting of seasonal crops next week. The Concord farm conserved more than 100 acres of...
View ArticleDowntown: Burgers and ice cream go gourmet
A new gourmet burger restaurant and gelato shop will open on South Main Street. Jim and Jeannette Zaza will open Relish America Gourmet Burgers and Buza Dairy Bar in mid-September in the vacant side of...
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Photos: Fresh from the farm
Davison Farm Stand was selling vegetables Monday along Route 114 in Henniker. It will be open through September from noon to 6 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekends. Linda Davison sits at the...
View ArticleTreats so simple it’s scary
The eyes have it this year for easy Halloween treats. Being short on time, or skill, doesn’t mean you can’t turn out something worthy of even the finest Halloween party table, all you need is a little...
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Photos: Picking a sweet treat
With temperatures in the 70s and clear skies on the Columbus Day holiday, Meadow Ledge Farm in Loudon was packed with apple pickers and long lines for doughnuts and cider Monday. The farm is open daily...
View ArticleWriter Mark Bittman finally reveals how he plans to shake up one of the...
In September, Mark Bittman, the well-known food writer, authored his last column for the New York Times. After five years covering food issues as a columnist for the paper, he was leaving to embark on...
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‘New England loves classic’ pies
A dozen pie options are available to customers at The Crust & Crumb Baking Co. at Thanksgiving, ranging from a chocolate-infused midnight pumpkin pie to coconut cream pie to pork pie. The downtown...
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Capital Region Food Program distributes holiday boxes to nearly 2,500 families
More than four decades ago, Maria Manus Painchaud’s father organized fewer than 100 holiday baskets for hungry families in Concord during the holidays. Last week, she watched volunteers fan out to rows...
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Crop rotation
Across time and seasons, cultures and landscapes, people and technology – things change. So goes it with the Concord Monitor’s food blog. “On the Food Trail” is not so much disappearing, though, as it...
View ArticlePigs and NHPR
“A Pig’s Life: From piglet to pork chop” got a little press today on NHPR’s Foodstuffs segment. I chatted with All Things Considered host Peter Biello about what drove me to pursue this project. Check...
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Women on the farm
That women are an integral part of New Hampshire agriculture is a no-brainer for Diane Souther. “They were always doing the work,” she said during a recent interview at Apple Hill Farm in Concord....
View ArticleCulinary pros at Concord Regional Technical Center
My colleague Nick Stoico did a fabulous story on the Concord Regional Technical Center students who’ve made it to the regional and national levels of the ProStart Invitational culinary competition....
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