Wraith Appointed Dean of COLSA
UNH Provost John Aber says he found strong support for the job Jon Wraith has done since he was appointed Acting Dean of the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture a year ago, after former Dean Tom…
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SARE Awards Grants to Four NH Farmers
Four farmers in New Hampshire were recently awarded 2012 USDA Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Farmer Grants by Northeast SARE. Chuck Cox of Tuckaway Farm in Lee will experiment with…
Growing Interest in Agritourism
Count on agritourism to show significant gains when this year’s Ag Census is completed. Income from agritourism reported in the 2007 Ag Census had grown to $2.3 million—an exponential ten-fold…
Agriculture Hosts Breakfast Meeting
Last Wednesday the department hosted Governor John Lynch and the five members of the Executive Council for a breakfast featuring New Hampshire foods prepared and served by members of the Merrimack…
More Local Milk Options
The Bartlett Farm, one of Concord’s two working dairy farms, has contracted with a small processor in Maine to pasteurize and bottle some of their herd’s production for sale under their own label.
School Gardens and CSAs Keep Growing
Community, school and other sorts of civic gardening are flourishing. The People’s Garden at the USDA Service Center in Coos County in Lancaster grew out of a partnership between North Country…
New Hampshire’s High Tunnels
Otho Wells, University of New Hampshire professor emeritus of plant biology, pioneered high-tunnel technology at UNH at the NH Ag Experiment Station’s Woodman Horticultural Research Farm in Durham,…
Hurricane Irene Leaves Behind Floods, Crop Damage
Many farms weathered the storm reasonably well, despite heavy rains, winds and power outages. The mountains experienced some of the heaviest rains, resulting in flooding and damage to roads and…