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Party Invitation .. Seacoast Slow Food Nominates Regional Foods For World Wide “Arc of Taste”

We received this invitation for all our readers from Nancy White in Amesbury from Slow Food Seacoast  to the North. Sounds like a great free event in Portsmouth. Let us know how it went if you can make it.
Sept 26: Evening Social to Celebrate 2009 Nominations to the Ark of Taste
Slow Food Seacoast, Slow Food USA, and [...]

9 Local Chefs + Local Farms = Alfresco Dining … Friday Night In Newbury Free Admission

Nice article by Sonya Vartabedian today in the Daily News about the plans for 9 local chefs to pair with local farms at the first Farmers Market Dinner. Friday night, in a tent under the stars, in Newbury at the Spencer-Peirce-Little  Farm. LFN appreciates it when the media covers local food topics. Growning and preparing our excellent [...]

Cider Hill “Farm to Table” Dinner Planned … Essex Heritage Note .. The Cook Family At Cider Hill And Sarah Pike Present

We received this item from one of our great local foodies, Elizabeth Rankin at Essex Heritage
Hey there,
I thought I would share what I am placing in the Essex Heritage August e-news today. It features Sarah Pike’s (Good Tastes Kitchen) Farm to Table Dinner at Cider Hill Farm. I didn’t find it on the LFN website [...]

Woodstock 1969.. Part Of the Local Food Movement? .. ‘we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden’

Its an odd question to younger ears perhaps, but the 60’s  we’re a wonderful/awful time of great change and ferment in the USA. Part of that change was a recognition of the need to return to something pre-20th Century….something more benign. “We’ve got to get ourselves back to the Garden” was the lyric and for many it [...]

Free and Fun Blueberry Bay Farm Tour For Gardeners.. .. Close By In Stratham, NH

Dick Chase who runs a great local CSA sends along this invitation below to folks who might want to tour this great little well run farm. Sounds like a great informative session for gardeners. Here is his note:
Below is info for a UNH Twilight Meeting on Thursday. It is really a meeting and farm tour for small [...]

Secrets of Healthy Eating…….Book Signing and Author Chat Benefiting Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center

Carry Out Cafe presents  The Secrets of Healthy Dieting Book Signing with Alice Green America’s Healthy Lifestyle Coach, Intuitive and Balanced Eating expert, and past Newburyport Current columnist. Alice will talk about a whole new way to easily achieve portion control and make satisfying healthy choices without feeling deprived so it is easy to maintain. Her [...]

Bicycle To Newburyport Farmers Market….Get Free Tannery Bucks…2 for bikes, 3 for trikes, and 5 for unicycles!

David Hall at the Newburyport Farmers Market  and a big supporter of the Local Food Network asked us to invite local foodies to bicycle to the FM for the next two weeks and receive Free Bucks for Bike Wheels. Its a good way to buy your food and do something good for the environment.
Celebrating human-powered transportation [...]

New Eden Food Preservation Classes 7/29-October 10/7

New Eden Food Preservation Classes 7/29-October 10/7
by Garden GAL
Wondering what to do with all those great fruit and veggies from your garden, farmers’ market or CSA? How about preserving those fleeting moments of Summer Sunshine through home food preservation?
New Eden Collaborative of First Parish Church is pleased to announce their first sustainable cooking series. The [...]

Local Food-Fun Events

See how Sarah Pike of Good Tastes Kitchen is “Making Dinner. Easier.” Here is a list of Farm to Table Dinners; check Good Tastes Kitchen website for more details:
• Arrowhead Farm to Table ~ Saturday July 18th
• Green Meadows Farm to Table~ Friday August 7th
• Cider Hill Farm to Table ~ Saturday September 12th

Parsley, sage, rosemary,and thyme…are you going to Seedling Fair?

OK…hum along…..parsley, sage, rosemary*and thyme…….Even Paul Simon thinks you should go to the Seedling Fair at the Tannery today from 10 to 2. There will be also basil, onions, garlic,broccoli rabe, tomato plants, salad greens, and lots more. The Newburyport Farmers Market hosts a spring Seedling Fair this morning. Its an easy way to support local growers and [...]