Links

Here are some articles and some other sites that might be interesting to friends of the Bedford Farmers’ Market…

  • For a listing of other farmers’ markets around NH as well as NH-made agricultural product suppliers, check out the NH Department of Agriculture‘s site at http://www.nh.gov/agric/index.html. 

  • New Hampshire Farmers’ Market Association will teach you how to have a farmers’ market in your hometown.  Provides a directory of other farmers’ markets as well as educational resources. www.nhfma.org.

  • Beginner Farmers of NH is an effort to help support and encourage individuals wishing to start farming or gardening and to help and support people who are currently farming. Their site includes a good resource listing at www.beginnerfarmers.org.
  • NHmade.com provides information on NH-made products. www.nhmade.com.
  • The Northeast Organic Farmers Association (NOFA) is a non-profit organization of nearly 4,000 farmers, gardeners and consumers working to promote healthy food, organic farming practices and a cleaner environment. NOFA has chapters in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont. www.nofa.org
  • LocalHarvest is a not-for-profit venture to sprout and grow a definitive and reliable “living” public directory of small farms nationwide. www.localharvest.org and (831) 466-0700
  • The Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association was formed in the U.S. in 1938. Biodynamics is the oldest, non-chemical agricultural movement and pre-dates organic agriculture by some 20 years. The Association supports regional, grass-roots membership associations and funds more formal research and training institutions. Biodynamics also supports Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). www.biodynamics.com
  • The American Farmland Trust (AFT) works to stop the loss of productive farmland and to promote farming practices that lead to a healthy environment. www.farmland.org
  • The Farmland Information Library provides statistics on agriculture by state. New Hampshire data, including an extensive listing of links are available at: http://farmlandinfo.org/new-hampshire/
  • Portsmouth-based Sustainable Harvest has helped more than 680 farming families in Central America to adopt environmentally-friendly farming methods. www.sustainableharvest.org.