Our local farmers are well past the halfway point in the season, and the recent hot temperatures ripened up tomatoes, peppers and eggplants. This is the time to take advantage of such a special, short-season treat!
Ordering is open for Veggie-GO and Wholesale
Read further for your locally-sourced shopping list.
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** Featured Products on Veggie-GO this week
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Green Leaf Lettuce Heads
Wild Fern Farm
Certified Organic
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Radicchio, Chioggia
Wild Fern Farm
Certified Organic. Colorful Italian salad and cooking green
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Local Peaches
Three River Farms
Juicy peaches from Applecrest Farm! Locally grown, deliciously sweet.
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Marinara Sauce – OLT
Belknap Foodshed
Everyday, elevated with Our Local Table
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** Featured Products on Wholesale this week
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Heirloom Tomatoes
Heron Pond Farm
Maximize flavor! A mix of our Best heirloom fruit. Great tasting and very colorful.
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Apples, Paula Red – Brookdale Farm
Three River Farms
Tart, Juicy, Crisp, white flesh! An early variety that gets you excited for fall!
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Arugula & Pistachio Pesto (frozen)
Valicenti Pasta
Arugula, pistachio, & Parmigiano Reggiano
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Ground Bison
Hackmatack Buffalo Farm
100% Grass fed, all natural ground bison meat.
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** Veggie-GO Tips
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https://nenutritionadvisors.com/2021/08/05/collaboration-with-three-river-farmers-alliance-recipes-for-summer-produce/
** Wholesale News
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** Little Red Hen Farm & Homestead
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Little Red Hen Farm is a small diverse family farm located on 33 acres in Pittsfield, NH (https://www.littleredhenfarm.net/) . Their farm stand supports more than 30 NH local farmers and vendors in an effort to help them get their products out there to the community. They are open daily, year round, fully self-serve honor system. They offer a variety of pastured meats, raw goat dairy products, goat milk soap, raw honey and produce, and pride themselves on farming in the most compassionate & natural way possible providing their animals with a quality, healthy, happy life. Stop by on your adventures this weekend!
** Producer Profile
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** Invest in Short Creek Farm
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Big news! Short Creek Farm is opening their own USDA-inspected processing facility where they can do everything needed to turn pork and beef into the delicious sausages and charcuterie you know and love.
“This is a huge project, requiring expensive renovations and a lot of specialized equipment (also expensive), and we are seeking funding from several different sources,” says Jeff Backer, co-owner of Short Creek. “As part of our fundraising efforts, we are asking for help from the community and giving folks an opportunity to invest in our success.”
“Investment from the community is absolutely vital to the success of this project, but we are not asking for a donation,” says Backer. “We are working with Mainvest, an online platform that allows anyone to invest in our business and receive a return on their investment as Short Creek grows.”
Check out their Mainvest profile (https://mainvest.com/b/short-creek-farm-northwood) to learn more!
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** Serving Neighbors in Need
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** $850 raised last week.
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Thank you for helping us feed delicious, local food to neighbors in need through the Local Food Donation and SNAP Delivery Donation programs.
** Your Donations are Needed!
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We are so incredibly grateful for the generosity of our community. Over the past year and a half, we have been able to donate approximately $1,000 worth of local foods each week to community members facing food insecurity, and community resource centers working to serve that need. With fall coming and kids headed back to school, our local schools are preparing to serve hundreds of free meals per week to students in need. We are humbly asking for your donations to enable us to deliver local food to additional school districts in the Seacoast region. If you are able add a Local Food Donation amount to your order each week. The money you spend will be used directly to purchase food from local farms and then be delivered for free to school districts, food banks, and community resource centers. Thank you very much.
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** Staff Spotlight
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** We Our Staff’s Recipes!
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Eggplant Caponata
The recipe is based on the Eggplant Caponata in Root to Leaf by Stephen Satterfield with my slight modifications. This remains one of my favorite unique ways to eat eggplant. If you can bear it, let the caponata rest overnight and serve the next day when the flavors have melded together even more. -Perri Krywick, TRFA Admin Assistant
Ingredients
3c eggplant, diced
1 tsp salt, divided
4Tbs olive oil, divided
1 small onion, diced
2 garlic cloves, sliced thin
1 tsp thyme
1/4 tsp pepper flakes
2 tomatoes, diced (juices and seeds included)
2 Tbs raisins
1 Tbs sherry vinegar or red wine vinegar
1 tsp honey
Salt and pepper
Fresh parsley, basil or mint for garnish
Directions
Heat oven to 350°F. Toss eggplant with 1/2 tsp salt and 2 Tbs olive oil. Spread the eggplant in a shallow pan and roast until slightly caramelized, but still intact with a creamy texture-about 30 minutes.
Heat the remaining 2 Tbs olive oil in a skillet over medium low heat. Sauté the onion, garlic, thyme and pepper flakes with the remaining 1/2 tsp salt until tender-about 5 minutes. Add the tomatoes and stir the mixture frequently for 5 minutes. Add the raisins, vinegar, honey, pepper and stir to combine. Let the mixture simmer for 5 more minutes. Pour the sauce over the eggplant, stir to combine and taste for any additional seasoning. You can serve it as is or let it cool and serve at room temperature or chilled. Top with fresh parsley, basil or mint.
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