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Farm Happenings at Fresh Start Farms
Summer Week 10: Happy August!
August is here and with it comes large harvests and endless watering and weeding! Lots of tomatoes, green peppers, eggplant, and blueberries. Plus, the first of cantaloupe and watermelon! Click the links for highlights from this week1 read more »
Summer Week 9: Tomato time
Tomatoes are ripe and you get to enjoy the first tastes this week! Grab mozzarella, basil, and balsamic vinegar and enjoy. Click the links below to learn more. Plus, highlights from the harvest this week, a featured recipe, and new and fea1 read more »
Summer Week 8: Finally time to plant the new Concord Farm!
After months of preparation, the new Concord farm is ready to plant! Lots more zucchini, summer squash, cucumbers, and green beans this week. And corn is here! Click the links below to learn more. Plus, highlights from the harvest this wee1 read more »
Summer Week 7: Zucchini galore, Gluten Free Raviolis & PYOBlueberries
The farms are flourishing! Zucchini, summer squash, and cucumbers peaking out from under every vine, more green beans, and the first harvest of potatoes and cauliflower. Plus more blueberries, a Valicenti Pasta restock and new Rock City Whole Bean O1 read more »
Summer Week 6: Have you signed up for Hari's Flower Share?
The first tastes of green beans and blueberries are here!! Follow the links below important member info, highlights from the week's harvest, farm news, new products, a featured recipe, and more!
Highlights from this week's Bounty!1 read more »
Summer Week 5: A bounty of snap peas and greens
Happy 4th of July weekend! Sugar snap peas, basil, and the first of zucchini and summer squash are here! Follow the links below for information about schedule changes for the 4th of July holiday, highlights from the week's harve1 read more »
Summer Week 4: July 4 Schedule Changes & Garlic Scapes!
Get excited about more strawberries, lots of garlic scapes, kale, bok choy, chard, basil, and more! Follow the links below for information about schedule changes for the 4th of July holiday, highlights from the week's harvest, ne1 read more »
Summer Week 3: Strawberries are here!
Strawberries are here! It's the time of year many of us wait for when those delicious red berries ripen in the fields. Follow the links below important member info, highlights from the week's harvest, farm news, new products, a1 read more »
Summer Week 2: Asparagus and lots and lots of greens!
Week 2 of the Summer FarmShare is bringing tons of greens and lots of asparagus! Follow the links below important member info, highlights from the week's harvest, farm news, new products, a featured recipe, and more! 1 read more »
About the farm
If you are new to Fresh Start Farms, welcome!
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!
To learn more about our organization as a whole, please visit us at http://www.refugeesuccess.org
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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!
To learn more about our organization as a whole, please visit us at http://www.refugeesuccess.org