NH Farm Network Open Forum - June 2025

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Topic: 2025's Beginning Farmer Support Networks

Join us for the NH Farm Network Spring Call, where we’ll highlight important work underway to support New Hampshire’s beginning farmers. UNH Extension will share updates on its Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development (BFRD) grant with USDA, including insights from a newly completed statewide needs assessment focused on beginner farmers. This work aims to deepen our understanding of the challenges new farmers face and how agricultural service providers can better support their success.

We’ll also hear from NH QFN and NOFA-NH about their recent farmer wellness retreat—an emerging strategy that addresses the mental, emotional, and social well-being of farmers. As more beginning farmers face stress, isolation, and burnout, wellness retreats are proving to be a powerful way to build resilience, foster peer connection, and create a stronger sense of community in the farming world.

The final thirty minutes are reserved for an open-format session. Attendees are invited to share updates, highlight upcoming initiatives or events they have been working on.

 

 

NH Farm Network

The NH Farm Network is a collaboration of agriculture service providers who work to support and provide resources to NH farms and aspiring farmers. Members of the network gather quarterly to share news and learn about each other's organizations and programmatic offerings. The meetings are open to anyone, including growers. Participants are invited to attend any number of these meetings.  You can learn more about the network on our NH Farm Network webpage.

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If you need an accommodation to participate in our programming, please contact Olivia Saunders, Olivia.Saunders@unh.edu and 603-447-3834, prior to the event. Given ample time, we will make any reasonable effort to meet your needs, including language access services if requested, which will be provided free of charge.

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, through the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program under sub-award number SNE21-008-NH.

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