On the first Friday of each month, September through April, the NH Food Alliance network hosts an informal and lively conversation with partners across the New Hampshire food system and beyond! Network Café topics often leading to further collaborations and projects; turning talk into action.
The 2025-26 Network Café Series
The 2025-2026 Network Café Series is a space to learn about and discuss the critical issues facing our food system right now.
A guest will join us to share about their understanding of the topic at hand and lay out the implications the issue has for our individual and collective work in creating a thriving food system here in the Granite State. Following the presentation, we will ask questions, discuss, and connect over what we learned, strengthening our relationships and connections to inspire solutions through collaboration.
In that spirit of collaboration and building connections, we urge you to share our Network Café Series with your networks, colleagues, and friends. Each café is designed to be inclusive opportunities for learning and growing in our food systems work. Below are the proposed topics and registration links for each upcoming Network Café; more details will be available as each gets closer. Looking forward to another season of learning together!
What Gets Measured, Gets Managed: Inside the Local Food Count Project
January 9, 12-1PM | Register here
Currently, an estimated 90% of our food comes from outside New Hampshire and New England. The Local Food Count Project, a project of the New England Food System Planners Partnership, is a collaborative effort to measure how much food is sourced locally by institutions and food businesses across New England. Join the January Network Cafe to hear from the Project’s coordinator, Leah Rovner, as she shares how New Hampshire’s institutions and food businesses can get counted in 2026 and inform better data about what food is sourced locally. We’ll discuss how the Local Food Count Project aims to improve public policies, programs, and investments into our state’s and our region’s food system.
Upcoming Network Café Series Topics
February 6 | Register here
Topic: Middle of the Food Supply Chain Field Trip Series: Vermont
March 6 | Register here
Topic: New England Food Vision Prize in NH
April 3 | Register here
Topic: An update on the Local Food for Local Schools Reimbursement Pilot Program
Catch up on past Network Cafés! Read summaries and watch recordings of below.
