Look forward to more tomatoes, salad mix, kale, squash, peppers and eggplant, as well as husk cherries, lauki squash, and African corn. For fruit share members, peaches are back!
Keep reading to meet your farmer, get a sneak peak at your farm share and fruit share, and for featured recipes, cheese, meat, and pantry items!
Meet Your Farmer
Hajiya & Yussuf My name is Hajiya Libanga, I farm with my husband Yussuf. We came to the USA in 2004 from a refugee camp in Kenya where we stayed 10 years with 3 kids. We are originally from Somalia. We love farming and we like to grow all kind of vegetable.
We sell our vegetables at the Manchester Community Market and the Nashua Farmers Market. We have a great community that supports us (CSA, senior share, whole sale, farmers market) and we want to thank all the great customers because we are very happy with our customers. The best part of farming for us is being able to feed our family fresh and local. Our kids are always excited to eat the food that we grow. Farming is a hard job but we enjoy doing it. Our goal is to be able to grow more food and be able to sell more. Thank you!
Farm Share Messages
Home Delivery Notice: When you select home delivery for your order, please be sure to leave a cooler out for the delivery driver. They will place your food in it's liner and take the box back. If you haven't added any delivery instructions to your account, please do so we can make sure we get your food to the right place. All orders must be picked up during pick up site time. Any orders not picked up at the close of the site will be donated to families who need food.
Please continue to practice Covid-19 social distancing and wear a face mask at pick up.
If you are missing any items in your share please let us know as soon as possible at farmshare@refugeesuccess.org. We will credit your account and it is helpful as a training mechanism for our team.
Highlights from this week's bounty
Fadumo & Khamis' Delicata & Buttnernut Squash Beefsteak & Paste Tomatoes from Dunbarton Farmers Carrots from Batulo Hajiya's Salanova Salad Mix Husk Cherries from Sylvain Eggplant & Cherry Tomatoes from Umoja Farmers
FruitShare Update
For this week you can expect:
Peaches from Cider Hill Farm
Recipe of the Week
African/Thai Eggplant
Also known as garden eggs, African/Thai eggplant contains fiber, potassium, beta-carotene, ascorbic acid, iron, and calcium. They be can prepared by grilling, baking, boiling, and steaming. They can even be sliced and eaten fresh, pickled, pureed into juice, or dried for later use. Try out an Eggplant Stew!
We are a collective brand for immigrant and refugee farmers participating in the New American Sustainable Agriculture Program, a program of the Organization for Refugee and Immigrant Success. We work alongside new American farmers to bring farm fresh ingredients to your table via neighborhood farm stands, farmers markets, our FarmShare, wholesale and through NH Farm to School.
Twenty-three new American farmers make up Fresh Start Farms. Nine farmers are part of the New American Farmers Co-op and grow at Our Farm on Story Hill in Dunbarton, NH. An additional 14 farmers, the Umoja Farmers, grow on land at the St. Paul's School in Concord, NH.
All producers in the Fresh Start Farms collective implement organic practices. While not certified organic, the farmers grow nutrient dense produce without chemicals and in a way that promotes healthy soil, habitat, and environment.
We speak 13 languages, represent 7 countries and grow over 50 different varieties of produce!
