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!
NH’s Middle of the Food Supply Chain: Where We Are, Where We’re Going
November 7, 12-1PM | Register here
Join us during our November Network Café to understand and develop crucial processing, aggregation, and distribution services that support our local food system. We will hear about existing value-added processing capacity in New Hampshire and two new operations that are in progress as recipients of the USDA’s Resilient Food System Infrastructure program. Following the presentation, participants will be asked to share about other existing middle of the food supply chain capacity in the state and what is needed to support New Hampshire farmers.
Our November Network Café is a continuation of the Middle of the Food Supply Chain Field Trip Series, a series of three, day-long field trips, each focused on two or more businesses in New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont. Learn more about the field trip series here.
Upcoming Network Café Series Topics
December 5 | Register here
Topic: Middle of the Food Supply Chain Field Trip Series: Maine
January 9 | Register here
Topic: Kicking off the 2025 NH Local Food Count
February 6 | Register here
Topic: Middle of the Food Supply Chain Field Trip Series: Vermont
March 6 | Register here
Topic: An update on the Local Food for Local Schools Reimbursement Pilot Program
April 3 | Register here
Topic to be announced
Catch up on past Network Cafés! Read summaries and watch recordings of below.
