Support Farm, Fish, and Food Enterprises

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The NH Food Alliance collaborates within a network structure to support food enterprises and promote a growing, healthy food system. When we strengthen food enterprises—the entrepreneurial backbone of the food system—everyone wins.

Current Collaborations

NH Food Hub Network

The NH Food Hub Network is a statewide network of food hubs working to improve the local food economy through increased sales, aggregation, and distribution of locally grown farm products. Launched in 2020 in partnership with the Kearsarge Food Hub, the network is currently housed within the NH Food Alliance. Want to learn more or get involved? Contact Katelyn Porter and visit the NH Food Hub Network page.

New England Food Hub & Processors Network

The New England Food Hub & Processors Network aims to build a New England food system where local products can be harvested, packed, processed, ordered, transported, and delivered in service of New England’s hospitals, K-12 schools, restaurants, universities,  grocers, and consumers. Want to learn more or get involved? Contact Katelyn Porter and visit the New England Food Hub & Processors Network page.

Resources

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New Hampshire Farm Products Map from UNH Extension

Connecting farmers directly with consumers allows for curbside pick-ups or delivery methods that maintain physical distancing, while providing local, nutritious food to New Hampshire communities. Includes farm locations and contact information, farm-preferred methods for relaying product, marketing updates to the public (websites and social media accounts), payment options, alternative purchasing locations, purchasing incentives/food access programs (such as SNAP, senior discounts or veteran discounts) and product category listings. 

NH Farm Network coordinated by UNH Extension

The NH Farm Network is a collaboration of agriculture service providers supporting and providing resources to seasoned and aspiring New Hampshire farms and farmers. It develops and deepens relationships across sectors and encourages new and seasoned farmers learn about our work.

Farm, Fish, and Food Enterprise Viability Initiative

Farm, Fish, and Food Enterprise Viability in New Hampshire: An initiative of the New Hampshire Food Alliance was created to provide a common focus and agenda for the collaborative work of the NH Food Alliance. The common thread emerging from this work: thriving local businesses are at the heart of our food system and can create cascading benefits for us all. The Viability Initiative outlines challenges and opportunities for farmers, fishermen, and food entrepreneurs, and describes how the NH Food Alliance will collaborate within a network structure to support food enterprises and promote a growing, healthy food system that benefits all residents in New Hampshire. 

NH Food Hub Network Business Model Report

A report in the business model, MOU, and supply chains for the active food hubs in NH.

New Hampshire Farm, Fish, & Food Economy

An outline of gains the state of New Hampshire could make by strengthening its community-based food system.

Ensure New Hampshire Maintains a Resilient Fishing and Seafood Industry as Environmental and Economic Climates Change

Constantly changing regulations, environmental dynamics, as well as fleet consolidation and “greying of the fleet” threaten the very existence of New Hampshire's commercial fishing industry and the businesses and communities that depend on it. Ensuring a resilient fishing and seafood industry requires the New Hampshire fishing community to weather unpredictable shifts in social, economic, and environmental conditions, including but not limited to ensuring all New Hampshire residents have access to diverse and local seafood and securing the long-term viability of New Hampshire’s fisheries industry.

 

NEWS, events & resources FROM OUR NETWORK

 

Network News about Farm, Fish and Food Businesses

April 7-9 in Portland, ME
As we gather in person at the 2025 Northeast Farm to Institution Summit—as we “turn toward one another,”—we reflect on who has been othered, and how w... Learn More
March 1-April 18, 2025
The UNH Extension Fruit and Vegetable Team offers pruning demonstrations to the public each spring. The focus of these demos is typically on tree frui... Learn More
hosted by the New England Young Fishermen's Alliance
This program is designed for experienced commercial fishermen who want to take the next step toward owning and operating their own vessel. It is open ... Learn More
Since 2001, LCHIP has proudly worked with community groups across New Hampshire to conserve and preserve New Hampshire's most important natural, ... Learn More
The Northeast Dairy Business Innovation Center offers grants and contracts for dairy farmers, processors, and service providers. Below is their yearly... Learn More
The Community-Driven Economic Empowerment (C-DEE) Grant Program is now accepting applications. The one-time capacity-building grant is designed to hel... Learn More
The New Hampshire Department of Education (NHED) will issue competitive grants to Eligible NH School Food Authorities (SFA) and Reporting Authorities ... Learn More
Provides assistance to specialty crop operations that incurred eligible on-farm food safety program expenses in 2024 and 2025. Learn More
he purpose of this grant is to support co-ops and small farmers in the day-to-day operations to aid in the development of their organization. We encou... Learn More
The Business Builder sub-award program will equip small- and mid-sized farm and food businesses with funding to develop and amplify regional supply ch... Learn More
Farmers fields must be at least 20 acres and have nesting Bobolinks. Learn More
The Farm Fund awards funding to help farms in Cheshire County and abutting New Hampshire towns develop or expand their production for wholesale market... Learn More
The Fruit Guys Community Fund is accepting applications from small U.S. farms for grants up to $5,000. For-profit operations less than 250 acres that ... Learn More
Apply for Project SCALES grant to improve school food system and supply chain Learn More
The program will fund projects that support community-based gardens promoting sustainable agriculture practices that benefit people and wildlife. Learn More
The GSF offers scholarships to members and employees of local co-ops who seek to further the cooperative movement through education, training, and/or ... Learn More
Established nearly 25 years ago by the Co-op Board, the HCCF has contributed more than $500,000 toward an endowment, the Twin Pines Cooperative Founda... Learn More
The purpose of the program is to promote economic development and job creation projects through the awarding of grant funds to eligible entities. Appl... Learn More
The Food Safety Certification for Specialty Crops (FSCSC) Program provides assistance to specialty crop operations that incurred eligible on-farm food... Learn More
American Farmland Trust's The Brighter Future Fund’s New England Regenerative Livestock Farming Grants provide up to $10,000 to livestock produc... Learn More
NOFA-NH invites NH farmers to apply for our new Organic Transition Fund mini-grants! Building on our Farmer Relief Fund in 2023, NOFA-NH has received ... Learn More
Agriculture is one of the largest contributors to global carbon emissions—but it doesn’t have to be. That’s why Pasa Sustainable Agriculture and partn... Learn More
Get Schools Cooking (GSC) is an intensive 3-year assessment and strategic planning program from the Chef Ann Foundation that provides schools with the... Learn More