Support Farm, Fish, and Food Enterprises

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The NH Food Alliance collaborates within a network structure to support food enterprises and promote a growing, healthy food system. When we strengthen food enterprises—the entrepreneurial backbone of the food system—everyone wins.

Current Collaborations

NH Food Hub Network

The NH Food Hub Network is a statewide network of food hubs working to improve the local food economy through increased sales, aggregation, and distribution of locally grown farm products. Launched in 2020 in partnership with the Kearsarge Food Hub, the network is currently housed within the NH Food Alliance. Want to learn more or get involved? Contact Katelyn Porter and visit the NH Food Hub Network page.

New England Food Hub & Processors Network

The New England Food Hub & Processors Network aims to build a New England food system where local products can be harvested, packed, processed, ordered, transported, and delivered in service of New England’s hospitals, K-12 schools, restaurants, universities,  grocers, and consumers. Want to learn more or get involved? Contact Katelyn Porter and visit the New England Food Hub & Processors Network page.

Resources

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New Hampshire Farm Products Map from UNH Extension

Connecting farmers directly with consumers allows for curbside pick-ups or delivery methods that maintain physical distancing, while providing local, nutritious food to New Hampshire communities. Includes farm locations and contact information, farm-preferred methods for relaying product, marketing updates to the public (websites and social media accounts), payment options, alternative purchasing locations, purchasing incentives/food access programs (such as SNAP, senior discounts or veteran discounts) and product category listings. 

NH Farm Network coordinated by UNH Extension

The NH Farm Network is a collaboration of agriculture service providers supporting and providing resources to seasoned and aspiring New Hampshire farms and farmers. It develops and deepens relationships across sectors and encourages new and seasoned farmers learn about our work.

Farm, Fish, and Food Enterprise Viability Initiative

Farm, Fish, and Food Enterprise Viability in New Hampshire: An initiative of the New Hampshire Food Alliance was created to provide a common focus and agenda for the collaborative work of the NH Food Alliance. The common thread emerging from this work: thriving local businesses are at the heart of our food system and can create cascading benefits for us all. The Viability Initiative outlines challenges and opportunities for farmers, fishermen, and food entrepreneurs, and describes how the NH Food Alliance will collaborate within a network structure to support food enterprises and promote a growing, healthy food system that benefits all residents in New Hampshire. 

NH Food Hub Network Business Model Report

A report in the business model, MOU, and supply chains for the active food hubs in NH.

New Hampshire Farm, Fish, & Food Economy

An outline of gains the state of New Hampshire could make by strengthening its community-based food system.

Ensure New Hampshire Maintains a Resilient Fishing and Seafood Industry as Environmental and Economic Climates Change

Constantly changing regulations, environmental dynamics, as well as fleet consolidation and “greying of the fleet” threaten the very existence of New Hampshire's commercial fishing industry and the businesses and communities that depend on it. Ensuring a resilient fishing and seafood industry requires the New Hampshire fishing community to weather unpredictable shifts in social, economic, and environmental conditions, including but not limited to ensuring all New Hampshire residents have access to diverse and local seafood and securing the long-term viability of New Hampshire’s fisheries industry.

 

NEWS, events & resources FROM OUR NETWORK

 

Network News about Farm, Fish and Food Businesses

April 14 to 27 in Burlington, VT
Every two years, the Northeast Farm to Institution Summit brings together food system leaders from across the region to spark ideas, build partnership... Learn More
Apply by November 3!
Submit your project proposal and If your project is selected, you’ll have phenomenal talent dedicated to it throughout the summer. The UNH Sustainabil... Learn More
October 17, 12:30-3PM
The University of Maine is hosting a workshop series on Technology Basics and Greenhouse Lighting at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens with two tracts. Learn More
The purpose of the Research and Education grant program is to invest in education for farmers that leads to changes in farmer behavior, decision-makin... Learn More
The Northeast SARE Farming Community Grant applies social science research and education projects that strengthen farming and food systems at the comm... Learn More
The Northeast SARE Research for Novel Approaches grant program funds ‘proof of concept’ applied research projects that are designed to confirm the ben... Learn More
Projects that help service providers improve the way they work with farmers through research-based education. These projects result in a change in pra... Learn More
The Agricultural Management Assistance (AMA) helps agricultural producers manage financial risk through diversification, marketing or natural resource... Learn More
The USDA-NRCS's Agricultural Conservation Easement Program helps landowners, land trusts, and other entities protect, restore, and enhance wetlan... Learn More
Better school food is one of the smartest investments we can make in kids today, in the adults they become, and in future generations. Yet, it can be ... Learn More
The University of New Hampshire has developed a new, sustainable commercial aquaculture fishing system, and received federal funding this summer to ta... Learn More
Airbnb and American Farmland Trust are launching the Farm to Stay Grant Program through AFT’s Brighter Future Fund. This national grant will support f... Learn More
Spotted lanternfly (SLF) has been detected for the first time in New Hampshire, with a small number of adults confirmed in Rockingham County. While th... Learn More
The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) recently published its New Hampshire Food Waste Generation Study. The study expanded on... Learn More
EQIP provides technical and financial assistance to agricultural producers and forest landowners to address natural resource concerns Learn More
Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) helps you build on your existing conservation efforts while strengthening your operation. CSP offers annual pay... Learn More
The New Hampshire State Conservation Committee (SCC) announces the opening of the fiscal year 2027 Conservation Moose Plate Grants. Grant application... Learn More
Farm Fund offers one-off financial grants to enable growers aged 35 and under to take action that reinforces a resilient, productive, and nutritious f... Learn More
The Granite State Clean Fleets Grant (GSFC) is a competitive reimbursement program funded by the Volkswagen Mitigation Trust (VW Trust) to offset exce... Learn More
Future Organic Farmer grants are an investment in our future food system. The more beginning farmers who pursue organic, the more we increase organic ... Learn More
The New Hampshire Dairyman's Scholarship Fund Granite State Dairy Promotion has partnered with the NH Charitable Foundation to create the NH Dair... Learn More
This program will leverage the singular opportunity of putting a conservation easement on farmland to also invest in the future viability of the farm ... Learn More
Newman’s Own Foundation, Humanitix, The Henry P. Kendall Foundation, and the Hunger to Health Collaboratory are thrilled to announce the launch of the... Learn More