LLF Hamburger Special!

Lasting Legacy Farm in Barrington, NH is offering a special on their hamburger.  Normally $6.00 per pound, it has been made available at only $5.25 for as long as it lasts!

Pre-orders welcome to ensure you don't miss out.  The meat will be ready for pickup Friday, July 30 or Saturday, July 31, 2010.  Cow has been all grass fed. 90-95% lean meat.

E-mail Wendy Berry @ wberry@llfarm.net with your pre-order or stop by and take your chance.

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Barrington Farm Tour Day

The 3rd annual Barrington Farm Tour Day is coming up on June 27th. Farms will be open from 10am-4pm and there are 8 farms to visit this year! Download and print a map and farm descriptions

Participating Farms 2010

#1 Warren Farm
30 Warren Road, 868-2001
Offering fresh picked vegetables in season and “pick your own“ vegetables, berries and flowers. We have fresh picked strawberries June thru October and handmade herbal soaps year round. Cut Your Own Christmas trees and handmade wreaths Nov -Dec. Tour the farm and eat strawberry deserts for a small fee. Common sense, sustainable farm practices.
www.warrenfarmnh.com

#2 Sallie’s Fen Alpacas
97 Swain Road (come from Route 9)
Tour our alpaca farm. Meet our award winning livestock and cute crias (baby alpacas). We
have been raising these beautiful relatives of the camel for show and for their luxurious fiber here in Barrington since 1995. Learn about alpacas, watch a hand spinning demo. Available for purchase we have yarn grown and spun on the farm in a wide variety of natural undyed colors, as well as our hand painted options. We also have hand made scarves and hats made with our fiber, and New England made socks.
(603)664-2916.
www.sfalpacas.com

#3 Yellow House Farm
541 Route 202
We specialize in foundational breeds of heritage chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys for the
production of meat and eggs. Gradually we are developing a permaculture model to complement our breed preservation and hatchery efforts. We also cultivate many heirloom vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers, combining beauty and production. At Yellow House Farm we are developing a curricula of classes and seminars for our friends and neighbors to promote our collective efforts to create a more beautiful and sustainable local culture of awareness. Come and Enjoy!!
www.yellowhousefarmnh.com

#4 Nippo Brook Farm
628 Mount Misery Rd.
Growing fresh vegetables in season, Nippo Brook Farm is committed to raising local food in a healthy and ethical way. Come tour our beautiful vegetable fields and ask the farmer for tips and tricks to growing your own food! Learn about heritage breed chickens and turkeys, and visit with the newest members of the farm, old fashion meat rabbits.  We look forward to seeing you!
Abram Pearson and Jessica Hebert
nippobrookfarm@gmail.com

#5 Castle Anam Cara “The Castle”
20 Hansonville Rd.
The noted medieval living history residence of David O’Connor (Lord Duncan) and Loretta Salazar (Lady Espringale). In addition to stepping back in time 1000 years, you will see how committed David and Loretta are to solar, organic, self responsible and sustainable living: from organic food production and food preservation to organic mushroom growing, heating and cooking with wood and solar furnaces to irrigation with collected rain water. David is also the well known “Dr. Tomato” and partner in HEALTHY HOME HARVEST LLC - known for their organically grown vegetable and flower plants grown in their self built, fully insulated, petroleum AND bio-fuel free green house! Come see how you and your family can begin to move in a more self-reliant direction.  Please note you must sign a liability waiver to tour the grounds and Castle. (500 ft. from Greenhill Rd. intersection)
www.castleanamcara.com

#6 Profile Alpacas
345 Dry Hill Road
Enjoy the day while taking a tour of our farm and viewing our Alpacas. Lear how their fiber is spun into yarn and what you can do with just the loose Alpaca fiber. See examples in our new farm store. Be sure to ask questions about how this fine fiber is so warm on those cold New England winter days!

#7 Lasting Legacy Farm
148 Second Crown Point Road
Come and enjoy this family farm that has been in existence since the late 1700’s. Raising farm animals as it once did for it’s family and neighbors we are always learning about farming an environmental friendly way, allowing the animals to do what they naturally do using their individual assets to work with mother nature at her best. Come and enjoy other aspects of agriculture here at Lasting Legacy. Taste the bounty of flavor in our burger raised on our farm while you have lunch with us!!
www.llfarm.net

#8 Spring Harvest Maple Farm
220 Route 9 (Across from the police and fire station)
We are a producer of exceptional maple syrup and maple products. The sugar house will be open for tours and we will be available to answer questions. We will also have samples of maple syrup and other products. We have recently completed our second year of production with great success. The support from the local community is amazing and will allow us to expand for next season. Also, we will have maple syrup, maple cream, and maple candy available for sale. We look forward to seeing you.

Sponsored by the Barrington Parks and Recreation Department.
Download and print a map with farm descriptions to guide you throughout the day on June 27!

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Lasting Legacy's Farm Shoppe

Lasting Legacy Farm in Barrington, NH has some awesome December sales happening right now. All pre-orders can be e-mailed to Wendy Berry at wberry@llfarm.net


Check it out:

**Homemade ice cream from Sugar & Ice in Barrington, NH is offering customers a selection of their flavors made at their stand only from top quality ingredients.

Pick 5 Pints for $22 or 1 pint for $4.95 

Flavors include:

Pumpkin

Chocolate

Chocolate Peanut Swirl

Yellow Cake Batter

Caramel Cashew Crunch

NY Cheesecake

Brownie Batter

Order by Tuesday, December 15 at 6pm for Friday, December 18th pick up at our shop from 10 am to 6 pm!

**Locally raised hamburger on sale! Packaged in approx 1 1/2 lb packages to 1 2/3 lb packages selling at $5/lb. This is roughly 90-95% lean hamburger!

To get this price you do have to pre order how many tubes you'd like by December 15th and it has to be picked up on Friday December 18th from 10am to 6pm at our shop.

**Preorder your Christmas hams.  Hams are nitrate and nitrite free, sugar cured and smoked with 4 woods.  For sale are approx. 5 lb picnic ham or a regular ham of approx. 10 lb.  The price is $4.75/lb.

And the last deal is....

**Bulk sausage!  Flavors include Garlic & Cheese and Sweet Italian. Packaged in approx 1 1/2 lb packages to 1 2/3 lb packages selling at $4/lb for burger or $5.lb for links (approx. 4 links equals one pound).

Just like the other shoppe items, please pre-order by December 15th how many tubes or links and what flavor you would prefer.  It has to be picked up on Friday December 18th from 10am to 6pm at our shop.

Everything listed here can be pre-ordered by e-mailing Wendy Berry at wberry@llfarm.net

(I have more Lasting Legacy Farm food treats to highlight in the near future, but for now, get those pre-orders in and happy shopping!)

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Barrington Farm Tour Day

Finally I can share information with you regarding the 2009 Barrington Farm Tour Day!! It will be held Sunday June 28th from 10 am - 3 pm with nine different farms participating throughout Barrington.

Participating farms include:

• Warren Farm
• Sallie’s Fen Alpacas
• Yellow House Farm
• Nippo Brook Farm
• Castle Anam Cara “The Castle”
• Profile Alpacas
• Lasting Legacy Farm
• Young Road Peaches
• Ramsbotham’s Riverview Farm

Download and print a brochure and map: Barrington Farm Tour Day (.pdf)

Also, at Yellow House Farm there will be a table with information regarding the first annual “Natural Heritage Agricultural Fair” September 12^th, 2009. Be sure to make at stop at Yellow House Farm for this exciting information...as well as to see the amazing flocks of heritage chickens and more!

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Whirlwind Weekend Review

Whirlwind just about summarizes this past weekend! I want to send a big congrats to Seacoast Eat Local and Wendy Berry of Lasting Legacy Farm for the incredible Farmer to Consumer Workshop they put on this past Saturday. What an informative and enjoyable way to spend a Saturday.

The day started off with Charlie Reid, a local organic farmer. He had so much knowledge to share with us about where to buy organic seeds, the benefits of organic gardening and other gardening tips and tricks. Stand by for more gardening posts as I prepare to have my first organic veggie garden this summer!

Next was Luke and Catarina of Brookford Farm sharing the benefits of raw milk and other farm fresh dairy products. They gave each attendee the opportunity to sample and compare grocery store whole milk and raw whole milk. What a difference! He also whipped up some simple whipped cream from the cream he sells on his farm and then we were able to shake up some whole milk and make fresh butter. Yum! And, he also brought copies of Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats, a fabulous cookbook/reference book. I highly suggest you add this book to your home library.

Next up was Joe from Yellow House Farm. He shared a bunch of information on heritage poultry and the differences between foundational breeds and composite breeds. A fellow local blogger, Amy, who has her own flock of chickens, summarized Joe's lecture quite well. Check our her post here. I'm really hoping to get my own flock of chickens. Oh to have my own fresh eggs!

After Joe's discussion, we had an amazing lunch catered by the McIntosh Culinary Academy. Sadly, this school is slated to close in December 2009.

Ok, so after lunch, was, well, more lunch...haha! Wendy Berry (the host of the event) from Lasting Legacy Farm and Chef Steven from the culinary institute shared ways to utilize underutilized cuts of meat. Chef Steven had prepared so much food, I didn't know where I'd fit it all, but I had to try it as it looked and smelled delicious!

So, if Seacoast Eat Local hosts another Farmer to Consumer lecture, I highly encourage you to sign up. You'll really get a great feel for the need for more farm friendly food and local consumers who are passionate about this food.

**A quick reminder, Tina still has local grass fed beef available. Be sure to contact her soon as the supply is dwindling daily. $4/lb for ground beef and stew meat plus other cuts are available.

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Lasting Legacy Farm Fall Fun Day

Say that title three times fast!

Lasting Legacy Farm is hosting a Fall Fun day at their farm on 148 Second Crown Point Rd, Barrington, NH. The event will be this coming Sunday (October 26) from 10 am - 4 pm.

Sugarmomma's Maple Syrup will be there with maple soft serve ice cream and other maple treats (I love their maple syrup and I need more!) You can also enjoy a hot apple cider doughnut from Pat’s Cider Doughnuts made right in front of you. Lunch is available from Atlantic Culinary Fresco Club. You can even reserve your holiday turkey when you're at the farm.

And Lasting Legacy Farm will be finishing the barn that is being preserved from the 1800’s.

Lots to see and do so be sure to stop by!

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Rock-Op Local Foods Co-op

I forgot to update everyone about my first experience using a co-op to buy local food items.

First off, Lenore at Rock-Op Local Foods Coop is wonderful, such a sweetie. She's started this local co-op with orders going in every two weeks. She'll e-mail you a list of the available products from the various farms and you then have a few days to place your order. Pick up time is the following Tuesday from 4-7 pm in Brentwood, NH. I'm also willing to pick up orders with you subsequently picking up in Rochester, NH if you like. E-mail me at livinglocalnh @ gmail . com (remove spaces) to arrange details.

I purchased 3 tubes of ground beef, 2 pkgs of stew meat (one shown) and a tube of ground Italian sausage. These meat products came from Lasting Legacy Farm in Barrington, NH. I've already made chili with some of the ground beef, it was very good!

There's also a regular co-op, Rock-Op Co-op in Kingston, NH that you can discuss with Lenore. Also, Associated Buyers in Barrington, NH is another co-op. I may be looking into Associated Buyers.

You can contact Lenore for more information at lenorepsmith @ hotmail . com (remove spaces).

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Dover Farmer's Market Haul

Ok haul is a bit over the top. I'm still learning how to "eat for the seasons" and cook "real food" for that matter!

Here's what little I picked up:

1 lb. chicken breast from Lasting Legacy Farm ($6)
1 pint red potatoes ($2)
2 white onions ($1.25)
1 gallon of gas for the car ($4)!
Total spent today = $13.25

I know I can do this for cheaper! Well first off, I think my best bet is to actually order directly from the farms. One of my friends says Pinewoods Yankee Farm in Lee has ground beef for $3.xx/lb. That sounds much more reasonable to me and my kids like ground beef! I will have to contact them soon.

Ok now off to figure out what to make for meals!

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