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From: Luke, Stacy - Concord, NH <stacy.luke@nh.nacdnet.net>
Subject: Merrimack County Local Food Guide
Sent: Feb 19 '10 5:05pm

This spring, the Capital Area Farm and Community Connection (CAFCC) will be
publishing a guide to local food. The guide will enable consumers to learn
more about where they can access locally raised produce, meat, eggs, dairy
products, and other items. It will also provide a marketing tool for local
farms that which to sell directly to consumers through farm stands, farmers

We just got a message from Alex Lehman who made a presentation last year to the Loudon Ag commission. She indicated that they (CHINet - Cultural Homestay International has started receiving applications from International Agricultural Students seeking work on US farms.

If you are interested, please contact her at 603-617-4583 or email chialex@chinet.org

Maple Weekend (27 and 28 March, 2010) is fast approaching. Are you ready?

The Loudon Agricultural Commission is looking at promoting this. If you have any input, please post a comment to this article.

Rumor has it there will be a Winter Farmer's Market at the Concord Cole Gardens on Jan 30, 2010, Feb 27, 2010, and Mar 27, 2010.

If anyone has additional information, please post it as a comment!

The following announcement may be of interest for those of us who employ transitional workers...

NH Economy has posted a new item, 'Workforce Housing Forum Scheduled'

As we all know, workforce housing is of great importance to the health of a community and economic development efforts. The good folks at the Rockingham Planning Commission and the Workforce Housing Coalition of the Greater Seacoast are partnering to hold a great forum that will help local officials learn about the state's new workforce housing law. [...]

You may view the latest post at http://blog.nheconomy.com/?p=651

The Merrimack County Conservation District will be sponsoring a meeting on Monday 23 November, 2009 in the Loudon Community Building for those who are:

• concerned about where your food comes from.
• looking for ways to support the local economy.
• interested in supporting local farms.
• a farmer looking for new markets for your products.
• a restaurant owner looking for sources of local food.
• interested in preserving open space.
• seeking out others who care about these topics.

Meet local farmers, respond to potential projects and bring

This message comes from Alex Lehman, who presented at our October 2009 meeting on how farms can avail themselves of high-quality labor from overseas (and North American) countries. The program is called Cultural Homestay International.

This is a list of resources available to Loudon residents.

There is a moderated mailing list (listserv) for the Agricultural Commission. You need to be a member to post messages to it, and you need to be a member to look at the archives.

The archive is currently hosted by Bruce Dawson at the following address:

http://simon.codemeta.com/cgi-bin/mailman/private/loudonag/

If you are a member, then you can send mail to 'loudonag@simon.codemeta.com'. If you are not a member and/or you post a message from a non-member email address, then the message will be rejected.