By Jake Gehrung for the NH Food Alliance Andrea Tomlinson often worries about the future of New Hampshire commercial fishing. “Our local fishermen are in danger of becoming extinct,” she says. As the manager of NH Community Seafood, a fishing cooperative aimed at protecting and expanding New Hampshire’s seafood industry, Andrea has seen up-close the…
Author: Jake Gehrung
Know Your Farmer – How One Group Connects Eaters and Growers in the Mt. Washington Valley
By Jake Gehrung for the NH Food Alliance “People are so disconnected from their food, that they don’t have any idea where it comes from, and how it gets there. Food system transparency has been lost.” That’s Joanne Ducas, the owner of Mountain Heartbeet Farm in Effingham, NH, and vice president of The Mount Washington…
Seacoast Mobile Market Breaks Barriers to Bring Local Food to All
By Jake Gehrung for the NH Food Alliance There are many challenges today creating a divide between potential customers and local food outlets. In response, there has been an effort to develop new channels in our local New Hampshire food system to address some of these barriers. One of these new channels is the Seacoast…