What We Do

Washing carrots at Highwater Farm in Bartlett, New Hampshire

NH Food Alliance is a statewide network that connects the people, business, organizations, and communities dedicated to growing a thriving, fair, and sustainable local food system in the Granite State. Together we build relationships, learn from each other, and catalyze collaboration to advance our common goals, respond creatively to challenges, and amplify our collective impact through six focus areas.

Diversify and Deepen Network Connections

We aim to deepen our existing network connections and actively develop new relationships between individuals and organizations, especially among traditionally underrepresented communities, policy-makers and groups, by:

facilitating meetings of the Network Leadership Team
hosting a Strategy Retreat for Network Leadership and actively engaged Network Partners
hosting the annual NH Food Systems Statewide Gathering

Catalyze Collaboration

We catalyze collaboration to find shared interests, advance policy changes, generate knowledge, and build collective solutions at the community, state and regional levels by:

facilitating monthly meetings of the Racial Equity Community of Practice
facilitating the monthly Climate Action Team meeting and its ongoing work
facilitating the monthly NH Eats Local Team meeting and its ongoing work
facilitating meetings of the NH Food Hub Network and its supporting partners
supporting the NH Food Access Coalition and project meetings of NH Feeding NH
strengthening our connections across New England by working closely with Food Solutions New England (FSNE) and participating in the New England Feeding New England Project (NEFNE) of the New England Food System Planners Partnership

Learning and Leadership

Foster learning and skill-building among network partners so that we can be effective leaders, collaborators, and advocates for change by:

organizing and hosting monthly Network Cafes
collecting news, events, grants and resources from our network and share in a searchable, filterable format on the Network News page

Storytelling

We activate and engage network partners and the public through inspirational storytelling and shared communication tools and resources. To accomplish this, we're currently:

facilitating and co-hosting NH Eats Local month
telling the stories of NH farm and food producers through the ongoing Field Photos Project