The first Seacoast Eat Local Winter Farmers’ Market of the season is tomorrow at and you won’t want to miss it! There will be 50 farmers and food producers selling an incredible array of locally grown and produced foods. Here at the farm we are busy harvesting, washing, bunching, and bagging, getting ready for what …
Our farm was featured in this recent story in The Wire about NH Farm to School: Making the Connection. In the fall, we made weekly deliveries to Exeter High School, where food service director Jeanne Pierce is doing great things with local food! As we make our crop plans for the 2012 growing season, we’ll …
Gilfeather Turnips We are packing our truck for the first Winter Farmers’ Market of the season. We’re loading up squash, potatoes, onions, carrots, turnips, and a bunch of other stuff I’ve been washing, sorting and packing for the last few days. We are almost ready! The pre-Thanksgiving market is one of my favorite days of …
Stout Oak Farm now has a facebook page! Check it out for up to date posts on what we’re doing and where we’ll be.
Stout Oak Farm just became a sponsor of Seacoast Harvest, the local food guide that gets published annually by Seacoast Eat Local. It’s a comprehensive listing of local farms and farmers’ markets – a fantastic resource that is distributed for free to consumers. The Seacoast Eat Local team needs to raise $2,000 more to print …
I just cracked open Eliot Coleman’s Winter Harvest Handbook, and got sidetracked by a quote at the very front of the book. I think it’s worth sharing: “What business man, except a soil worker, will ‘stop and talk’ with a stranger? Who but a farmer or fruit grower or gardener will tell of his experience …