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• Register today for the NHFB/NHTOA Summer Picnic! Limited seating left!
• Aug 18 NOFA-NH Field Day
• Aug 18 Tree Fruit Twilight Meeting
• Aug 19 NHFB-NHTOA Summer Picnic
• Aug 25 How to Select the Right Heritage Breed
• Aug 25 Twilight Tree Fruit Meeting
• Aug 26 Cut Flower Twilight Meeting
• Sept 1 FSA Farmer Listening Session
• Sept 1 & 3 Food Safety for Poultry & Rabbit Producers
• Sept 7 4-H Livestock Auction
• Sept 10 Coffee & Conversation RETURNS!!
• Sept 10 Strafford County Meeting NH Farm Museum, Milton
• Oct 15 Understanding H-2A Labor Law
• Nov 12-14 Tri-State Annual Meeting
• Newsworthy Announcements & Helpful Resources.

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SHOP NH's Producers & Farm Classifieds! Click on the titles below.

IT'S FAIR SEASON!!!

August 21-23 Cornish Fair www.cornishfair.org

September 3-7 Lancaster Fair www.lancasterfair.com

September 3-7 Hopkinton State Fair www.hsfair.org

September 11-13 Hillsborough County Agricultural Fair www.hcafair.org

September 17-20 & 24-27 Granite State Fair www.granitestatefair.com

October 1-4 Deerfield Fair www.deerfieldfair.com

October 10-12 Sandwich Fair www.thesandwichfair.com

Field Day: Gemmo Forest

Tuesday, August 18, 2026, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Using Permanent Beds and Polyculture Plantings in the Garden and the Forest Farm

• Visit Gemmo Forest to see a new paradigm in growing emerging. An invitation to look within for answers, strengthen your connection with self, and co-create with nature and nature beings. 

https://www.nofanh.org/events/gemmo-forest

Webinar: Learn to Select the Right Heritage Breeds

Join us for an upcoming webinar: Choosing the Right Heritage Breed for Your Farm.

During the free webinar, we will explore how to determine which heritage breeds may best fit your farm's needs, match breed traits to your land, climate, management style and market goals. The webinar is set for 2 p.m. EDT / 1 p.m. CDT / Noon MDT / 11 a.m. PDT, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026. 

Cut Flower Twilight Meeting | Joppa Hill Educational Farm

August 26, 2026 | 5:30 - 7:30pm

Joppa Hill Educational Farm

174 Joppa Hill Rd., Bedford, NH

Join us for a tour of the cut flower production at Joppa Hill Farm, a lively discussion about cut flower growing and selling, and a workshop on “Demystifying fertilizer in commercial production systems”.

Register for the Cut Flower Twilight Meeting at Joppa Hill Educational Farm

Webinar: Farmer Listening Session wtih FSA

Tuesday, September 1, 2026, Noon-1 PM

Join us for a listening session with NH FSA to learn about the organic cost share, as well as other programs available for farms through FSA, including NRCS projects. Find out why it is a good idea to register with FSA and stay updated each year.

Farmer Listening Session with FSA — NOFA-NH

Food Safety for Poultry and Rabbit Producers

September 1 & 3, 2026 | 6 - 8pm | Online

New Hampshire producers can sell poultry and rabbits (up to 20,000 whole poultry and 1,000 whole rabbits per calendar year) directly to NH restaurants without USDA inspection. NH producers can also sell rabbits (up to an additional 1,000 whole rabbits) to consumers from their farm, farm stand, or farmers market booth. For producers to legally sell their products in any of these ways, they must complete this initial certification course with UNH Cooperative Extension and recertify after five years. 

Cost: $25 per person, with $10 for each additional person from the same farm.

Learn more and register for the 2-day Food Safety for Poultry and Rabbit Producers course

NH 4-H Livestock Auction is back at the Hopkinton Fair, September 7^th

10:00 AM Viewing | Noon SALE

Locally grown food from locally raised youth!



The NH 4-H Livestock Auction is looking forward to its return at the Hopkinton Fair on Monday, September 7^th. Twenty-four 4-H youth from across NH have been raising market beef, swine, goats, lamb, and new for 2026; broiler chickens and meat rabbits, to fill the freezers of local buyers. The 4-H members who participate in the livestock auction are passionate about raising livestock but also providing high quality food to their communities.

For 2026, 2 beef steers, 19 lambs, 7 goats, and 11 market hogs will be auctioned live. 6 lots of broiler chickens, and 8 lots of meat rabbits will also be available (these lots are sold as a pair, and processed in advance of the auction). All buyers are encouraged to also attend a luncheon in between the show and sale to speak to the 4-H members and Livestock Auction committee members about the animals and the buying process.

Anyone interested in purchasing an animal can complete a request to receive a pass to the fair on the day of the auction to live bid on an animal. Anyone unable to attend in person can place a pre-bid prior to the event.

For questions about the event, contact Hannah Majewski, NH 4-H Animal Science Field Specialist at hannah.majewski@unh.edu.

Learn more about the NH 4-H Livestock Auction: https://extension.unh.edu/new-hampshire-4-h/new-hampshire-4-h-livestock-show-auction

Register to become a buyer: https://extension.unh.edu/LivestockAuctionBuyer

Coffee & Conversation RETURNS with a new season of fascinating speakers! Join us for coffee, conversation, and farmer-to-farmer connections!!

Organic Support Hour

Every Wednesday at 1PM

Interested in Organic Farming?

Are you curious about what it takes to grow under organic regulations? Want to better understand the organic standards or how your current practices might align?

Join our weekly online gathering for an open discussion and Q&A session! 

https://www.nofanh.org/events/july-organic-support-hour

Organic Technical Assistance

Get organic technical assistance to help with certification, developing your organic system plan, recordkeeping, preparation for your inspection, how to meet the organic regulations, and much more!

https://www.nofanh.org/technical-assistance

Check out our NEW blog and learn about

NH's amazing women and their impact on agriculture in the Granite State!

We have an updated website! Have you seen it?

We've updated our website! It has the same great information with a "SHOP LOCAL" page that offers free advertisement for members and an easy "Become A Member/Renew Today" button where you can use your credit card and sign up for auto-renewal.

Find it at nhfarmbureau.org and let us know your thoughts.

Join NHFB/NHAITC's Friendly Farmer Program!!!

We know there are educators out there looking to enrich their students with authentic ag experiences, as well as farmers interested in cultivating the next generation farmer. The difficulty is matching educator wishes with farmers, friendly farmers, looking to provide those experiences.

Would you be interested in taking your knowledge and agricultural experience to a classroom? Maybe you'd like to host an onsite visit, share your farm, barn, or market storefront?

The Friendly Farmer program is a way to connect farmers and ag leaders with classrooms and schools to offer authentic ag experiences. Help us grow together!

A partnership between NH Ag in the Classroom & NHFB.



Sign up today!!

If you enjoy the outdoors in the Granite State, you are at greater risk of encountering a tick and contracting a tick-borne illness, like Lyme disease. Now there is a way to know quickly if the tick that bit you, a loved one, or your pet has disease-causing pathogens.

Tick testing from the University of New Hampshire is now available to the public through UNH Extension. This service can alert you to the presence of a pathogen in a tick in as little as 3 days. It is information that helps you and your doctor or pet’s veterinarian decide if treatment is needed.

Tick Testing - How it Works