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.

Join us! The 2024-25 Network Café Series

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.

Why not both? Providing Housing & Protecting Land across NH

March 7, 12-1PM | REGISTER HERE
It’s no secret— New Hampshire is facing a serious housing shortage, an issue that both impacts our communities, our farmers, and our food businesses and inspires fearful visions of the swift development of the state’s prime agricultural lands. The good news: creative solutions that address both problems exist and are ripe for exploration.

During our March Network Café, we will be joined by advocates from housing and agricultural land use sectors to talk through common issues facing both sectors – and hear examples that equally prioritize a community's housing needs and protecting agricultural lands. Attendees will have ample time to ask questions and participate in a discussion about innovative ways municipalities and organizations are collaborating to find balanced solutions to provide the housing we all need and leave agricultural lands available to produce food for current and future generations.