Incorporating locally made and grown products into your event enhances the experience and your guests will truly appreciate it!

Here are some ideas:

• Use NH made wine carafes like this one, hand painted wine glasses and local wines.
• Use locally made bbq sauces, dips and mustards at your bbqs.
• Serve locally roasted coffees, hand crafted beverages and locally blended teas.
• Weddings? Register for dinnerware with a local potter-use NH items such as mini soaps, candles, mini syrup jugs, magnets, or ornaments as favors- have your meal contain all local items.
• Baby Showers? Register with a local furniture maker, give locally made toys, baby balms, clothing and other accessories.

A unique NH experience awaits you! Take a tour on one of NH's wine and cheese trails. Meander beautiful rural countryside and stop at your leisure to sample carefully crafted fruit and grape wines and handmade farmstead cheese. For complete details on the three trails to all the wineries and cheese makers in the state, click here.

"NH Made Building" at Deerfield Fair on September 25-28, 2008:

This September, the first-ever "New Hampshire Made" Building will feature more than 30 different vendors of authentic New Hampshire-made specialty foods and products. Save the date now for "New England's Oldest Family Fair." For directions, click here.

"NH Open Doors" on Veterans' Day Weekend November 8-9, 2008:

Spend a weekend in New Hampshire visiting our talented artisans, craftspeople, farmers, innkeepers, chefs, wine makers and more - all of whom will welcome you into their places of business. Maps and a list of participants statewide will enable you to create your own self-guided tour at your own pace. Save the date now. Information will be posted on our home page soon!

A series of NH Growers Dinners are held every summer and fall throughout the state in which the entire menu consists of NH-grown or raised foods - from the beer or wine to the salad, bread, main course and dessert.

The 2008 Season includes:

June 25th: The Dunaway Restaurant at Strawbery Banke, Co-sponsored by McIntosh Atlantic Culinary Academy:, 66 Marcy Street, Portsmouth, NH. 373- 6112.

August 23rd: Turtle Ridge Farm and Foundation, 392 Streeter Pond Road, Sugar Hill, NH. 823-7286.

November 2nd: Inn at East Hill Farm, 460 Monadnock St., Troy, NH. 242-6495.

TBA: Bailiwick's Fine Restaurant, Littleton, NH. 444- 7717.

There are also many local restaurants hosting growers dinners so be sure to check with your local paper and restaurants!

Zucchini or Summer Squash Pie
(Courtesy of Eva, Shaker Woods Farm, Sanbornton)

4 cups diced squash
1 large onion diced
3 eggs, slightly beaten
1 1/4 cup Bisquick
1 Tbsp oregano
1 1/2 cup grated cheese*
1/2 cup cooking oil
salt/pepper to taste


Combine all ingredients. Put in 8 X 10 or 10" pie (deep dish) plate. Sprinkle additional grated cheese on top. Bake at 350 degrees for 45-60 minutes. Cool for 5 minutes before serving. *You can substitute two 8 oz tubs of chevre goat cheese for the grated cheese in the mix then sprinkle parmesan on top.

Click here for more recipes from our NH Made members!

Visit one of the over 60 local farmers markets this summer! For a complete listing click here.

Take our farmers market consumer survey here.

The Benefits of Eating and Buying Local**

• locally grown and produced food is fresher
• you know where your food comes from and who grows it
• by buying locally you help support local farmers and keep working farms profitable
• you help preserve working farms and our rural landscape (productive farms preserve our high quality of life in NH)
• your money stays in and supports your local community

If your travels bring you on I-95 in Hampton this summer, be sure to stop by our NH Stores adjacent to the northbound and southbound NH State Liquor Stores. Our NH Stores have a great selection of locally made food and gift items. Print out the coupon at the end of this e-newsletter and save 10% on your purchase!

Heartwood Media from Manchester, NH, has produced an outstanding 6 minute video about New Hampshire Made and the benefits to buying New Hampshire made products and services from people who are proud of not only what they make, but how and where they make it. To view video now, click here!