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Dorchester, New Hampshire
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Food is everything!!! At D Acres, we believe that food is the staple of wellness and of community. We offer locally grown and prepared foods for sale at local farmer's markets, online through the Local Foods Plymouth initiative, and on-site as part of our hostel services. Additionally, D Acres offers a number of food events throughout the year!
Farm Feast Breakfast &
Open House
Seasonal Saturday Soups Join us on the third Saturday of each month, 6-8pm, for a fine meal of delicious soup, made with farm-fresh organic ingredients, and served with fresh baked bread. $5-$15 sliding scale donation for a bottomless bowl of soup! Click HERE for dates!
First-Friday Pizza and a Movie Whole-wheat, wood-fired pizza is all-you-should eat for a suggested donation of $5-$15, sliding scale. Dinner begins at 5:30pm. Films begin at 7pm, and are FREE to the public. In addition to ecological and social justice, this year's film series also includes a number of features focused on our 2008 educational theme, "Gardening for Health, Cultivating Wellness!" Click HERE for dates!
View our entire 2008 Calendar of Events!
Pemi-Baker Valley Guide to Local Food Inspired by the Upper Valley Localvores and their guide to eating local foods year-round, D Acres has begun production of a local foods directory for the Pemi-Baker Valley area. We currently have local farmers (veggies, meat, eggs, and dairy), bakers, a restaurant, and health food store listed, and we're looking to expand! If you are a local food provider who would like to be listed in the directory, please contact us at info@dacres.org to sign on! View the Pemi-Baker Valley Guide to Local Food!
Local Foods Plymouth In 2006, D Acres of NH co-founded the Local Foods Plymouth (LFP) project in conjunction with the Plymouth Area Renewable Energy Initiative. LFP connects local farmers and growers with consumers via an online marketing program, with a weekly (summer) or bi-weekly (winter) food pickup in downtown Plymouth, NH. Visit http://lfp.dacres.org or contact lfp@together.net to learn more, or to place your local food order today! Are you a farmer interested in selling your produce in the Pemi-Baker area via LFP? Contact Melissa at lfp@together.net.
For several years, D Acres has organized a food buying club to purchase food from a bulk natural food distributor. The food order allows us to buy large quantities of things that we use all the time, like whole wheat bread flour, rice and pasta, beans, non-dairy beverages, detergent, toilet paper and cat food! It's great to buy what we need without excess packaging, frequent trips to the store, and high retail prices. Food club members love reducing the time and transportation costs of ordinary shopping. They also enjoy paying wholesale prices for quality organic and natural foods. Whereas it is not practical for the normal family to buy a 50 lb. bag of beans, by placing our order together we can share the same bulk prices without buying enormous quantities. The cost of being a member is $13 a year if you would like a catalogue sent directly to your home. If you do not want your own subscription, forget the fee- you can just come by D Acres and look at one of our catalogues. A 3% handling charge is added to the total order. This allows us to offer you our Kitchen Manager as a shopping consultant! We can help you find what you are looking for in the catalogue, share our experience with certain brands, explain sizing options, and plan for pickup day! Food orders can be placed online, by phone or in person but you must visit us to pick it up!!! Email or give us a call if you are interested in learning more or if you're ready to join the Bulk Food Club!
In the summer of 2003, the industrial kitchen in the Homestead was certified for the commercial production of baked goods. Since then we have baked bread and sweets for delivery in Plymouth as well as the regular farmers markets. We plan to increase utilization of the kitchen, in order to match its capacity. One facet of this is making our breads, sweets and other products available at more local retail outlets. A goal even closer to our hearts is to provide the needs of Dorchester residents with baked goods for every occasion. Whether it be a healthy, reasonably priced sandwich bread, a nutritious snack the kids will love to find in their lunchboxes, or cakes and pies for special occasions, D Acres of New Hampshire has the capacity. We believe in supporting local businesses in order to keep value within the community. By providing nutritious food products (whether they are baked in our kitchen, harvested in our gardens, or purchased through our bulk food ordering club), we are demonstrating our desire to role model healthy eating, and to interact with the people in our community. On a farm, the kitchen is where all the hard work in the gardens pays off. Farm produce is prepared to eat right away, canned, pickled, or frozen for later. Staff, interns and workshop participants learn to manage the flow of food that comes from the gardens throughout the growing season. In the past we have offered workshops in the kitchen, including Tempeh Making, Canning & Pickling, Breadmaking, Winemaking, and Beer Brewing! Our objective is to rebuild the connection between the food that we grow and the food that we eat. For our kitchen to flourish we need a specialist willing to take on the challenge...please visit the Opportunities page to discover the possibilities for employment.
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