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Eat Local Week from the Keene Sentinel
New Hampshire residents are being challenged to look before they eat.
The state Department of Agriculture, along with Seacoast Eat Local, a group of consumers, chefs, growers and activists, is promoting New Hampshire Eat Local Week, Aug. 3-9, aimed at getting Granite Staters to eat locally grown foods.
Gail McWilliam Jellie, director of the Division of Agricultural Development at the state agriculture department, hopes that the Eat Local Week will be used as a tool for those who are just diving into eating local by pointing them in the right direction.
“If this event garners more interest from people who weren’t interested before, then that is great,” Jellie said.
Over the past few years the public’s trust in food has been tested with the recent salmonella outbreak and the 2006 spinach and lettuce illnesses caused by E. coli. Jellie said local markets in New Hampshire have helped repair that trust with the promise of fresh and safe vegetables.
Eat Local and Agricultural Commissioner Lorraine Merrill on NH Outlook
August 3rd to the 9th has been declared “Eat Local Week” in New Hampshire. Lorraine Stuart Merrill, the state’s Agricultural Commissioner, talks to NH Outlook host Beth Carroll at a farmers’ market about celebrating locally grown and raised food.
Watch the program at 6pm on August 4th or online
Articles and blog posts from the Portsmouth Herald’s food writer, Rachel Forrest
Blue Moon Market and Café · Yoga in Exeter sees it’s mission of being ‘committed to the community and dedicated to the earth-wise education of themselves and others’ as completely in-sync with Governor Lynch’s recent proclamation of August 3-9th as New Hampshire Eat Local Week. Blue Moon not only promotes the benefits of eating locally on a regular basis at the market and café, but will also feature a variety of special ‘local fare’ options on its menu throughout NH Eat Local Week.
NH Eat Local Week is Underway, in The Wire
Ingredients: Garden fresh vegetables in heirloom varieties, local duck eggs and organic spice mix.
This was just one item of many to be found in the potluck dishes at Slow Food Seacoast’s bimonthly meeting on Sunday evening, Aug. 3. The food brought to share was prepared with as many local ingredients as members could find, and dinner was followed by a homemade cake with ripe Maine blueberries that one member said “taste like flowers.”
The meeting and dinner kicked off the state’s Eat Local Week at the historic Stoodley’s Tavern at Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth. N.H. Eat Local Week, as officially designated by Gov. John Lynch, runs through Saturday, Aug. 9.
The week-long campaign was organized in part by Seacoast Eat Local to celebrate food that is grown and raised in the state. It’s an opportunity to support the local farming community, encourage food self-reliance and have a positive relationship with the environment. Participants are encouraged to challenge themselves to eat local every day this week, whether it’s every meal or just a side dish once a day.
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