Is is really summer? Today is June 21st and you can’t tell by the cool, rainy weather we have been having. Feels more like April! By now…I hope all of your crops are in the ground. Just a little more sun and hot weather is needed to get those little darlings GROWING!
Send in your favorite early summer recipes!
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Summer isn’t here but we’re looking forward to the Ultimate Pizza.
From the garden, tomatoes and basil. Homemade dough (most local ingredients possible), mozarella cheese made from local milk (preferablly raw), and if you need meat, don’t forget a locally raised chicken or pig (sausage).
Pizza has so many options with garden fresh vegetables.
Any interest in learning more about local producers, we’re happy to share and support them.
Jeff and Erin..
We would love to learn more about local foods. If you want to send a list I can post, e-mail me the information at morrison.family1@comcast.net and I’ll add it to the site. Thanks!
Laura
Laura, I’ve got a substanial list of local farms and I’ll email you the links when I get to that computer.
Some right off the top of my head, are Twist of Fate Farm in Dunbarton (catch them at the Concord Farmers Market (CFM) for beef, chicken, eggs…), McClary Farm in Epsom (unfortunatly temporarily shut down, was a source of raw milk), Vegetable Ranch Farm think in Warner (also at CFM and did a winter CSA we participated in).
Thinking along the lines of mozzarella, raw milk is available from Owen Farm in Hopkinton and Hidden Wonder Farm in Canterbury, trouble with raw milk is state law only allows them to sell 5 gallons a day and both farms for the most part have enough regular customers that its tough to purchase from them. An alternative is Hatchland Diary in North Haverill, which sells there milk commerically and can be found at the Concord Co-op.
I would love to post any links you have. Do you make your own mozzarella?
We do make our own mozzarella…its pretty easy…who knew.
After reading Vegetable, Animal, Miracle last summer we had to try it, so we checked out New England Cheesemaking Supply Company http://www.cheesemaking.com (talked about in the book). Located in Ashfield, MA and after reading Plenty http://100milediet.org it’s within 100 miles of Concord, though not in NH, it can be considered local.
I’m sending you a zip file that contains the links above, plus many more. Not all are local to Concord NH but a good majority are.