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Goin’ to the Country for a last 2008 harvest weekend: Nesenkeag\u2019s Annual Farm Day<\/strong><\/a> An all day even (check out the schedule<\/a>) and at 3:30PM: Nesenkeag Farm is located on the eastern bank of the Merrimack River, in southern New Hampshire (Litchfield). Henry David Thoreau once camped at the farm next to the mouth of Nesenkeag Brook and wrote about his Litchfield passage in his One Week on the Concord & Merrimack Rivers. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit farm, Nesenkeag\u2019s recent funding support includes grants from Share Our Strength and NH Catholic Charities, and our own spring Plant-A-Meal Fundraiser. Nonprofit income supports production of organic vegetables for the NH Food bank, whose distribution network includes soup kitchens and food pantries throughout New Hampshire. For 23 years, Nesenkeag has provided specialty produce to some of the finest restaurants in Boston and Southern NH. Its skilled Cambodian farm workers commute daily from Lowell.<\/p>\n Nesenkeag is well known for its innovative organic production & marketing strategies, developed during the past two decades by farm director & field manager, Eero Ruuttila. This past winter Eero completed his 5-year tenure as a \u201cFarmer-Educator\u201d for the USDA\u2019s SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education) program. This position supported numerous summer field tours and winter conference lectures.<\/p>\n Nicole Peyrafitte, Simon Pettet, myself and many others who are into good food & poetry will be there.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Goin’ to the Country for a last 2008 harvest weekend: Nesenkeag\u2019s Annual Farm DaySaturday, October 18th 11- 5:30 pmPoetry reading& grand raffle drawing An all day even (check out the schedule) and at 3:30PM:The...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Saturday, October 18th 11- 5:30 pm<\/span><\/span>
Poetry reading
& grand raffle drawing<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
The 8th Annual Nesenkeag Poetry Reading, featuring Nancy Henry<\/a> (Westbrook, Maine) and Joseph Torra<\/a> (Somerville, Mass) and will be followed by live music featuring Vicente Lebron<\/a> & Friends, with Russ Gershon<\/a>. <\/p>\n