Network Café Series

On the first Friday of each month, September through April, the NH Food Alliance network hosts an informal and lively conversation with partners across the New Hampshire food system and beyond! Network Café topics often leading to further collaborations and projects; turning talk into action.

The 2024-2025 Network Café Series is a space to learn about and discuss critical topics and issues facing our food system right now. Each month, we’ll spend an hour talking about a program, policy, or issue, ranging from farm to school to seafood supply chains and beyond. An expert will join us to share about their understanding of the topic at hand and lay out the implications the issue has for our individual and collective work in creating a thriving food system here in the Granite State. Following the presentation, we’ll come together to ask questions, discuss, and connect about what we learned, strengthening our relationships and connections to inspire solutions through collaboration.

In the spirit of building connections, we urge you to share our Network Café Series with your networks, colleagues, and friends. Each café is open to all and are designed to be inclusive opportunities for learning and growing in our food systems work.

Browse through the series calendar below and register. And a reminder— registration for the Network Café Series is rolling; you register once and receive monthly reminders before each Network Café. So register, add it to your calendar, and we’ll see you at noon on the first Friday of the month.

2025 NH Agricultural Policy Forum

January 3, 12-1PM | REGISTER HERE
In preparation for the 2025 legislative session, join us to hear from New Hampshire’s most well-informed food policy minds at the 2025 NH Agricultural Policy Forum. Each speaker will provide insights on the state level legislation being considered this session, as well as what individuals, communities, organizations, and businesses can do to get involved in the legislative process and support positive change in our food system.

Speakers
Rob Johnson, NH Farm Bureau
Julie Davenson, NOFA-NH
Theresa Walker, Durham Agricultural Commission

The 2025 NH Agricultural Policy Forum is co-hosted by the Monadnock Farm & Community Coalition and the NH Food Alliance, as part of the 2024-2025 Network Café Series.

February 7, 12-1PM | REGISTER HERE
Do you have a vision for a unique investment or partnership that would get more New Hampshire grown food into our schools and colleges? The New England Food Vision Prize, offered annually each spring by the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, awards grants up to $200,000 to projects aiming to increase the amount of local and regional food prepared and served on New England college and university campuses and within K-12 public school districts, helping to strengthen the region’s food system. Join us during our February Network Café to hear about the structure, eligibility, and review criterion of the Prize and brainstorm ideas for the 2025 request for proposal that could fund innovation in our food system.

Topic: The intersection of housing and agriculture in New Hampshire

Topic: The launch of the NH Food & Agriculture Strategic Plan
 

Catch up on past Network Cafés! Read summaries and watch recordings of below.