Monadnock Farm & Community Coalition

05/20/2026

Cheshire Garden’s annual plant sale begins next weekend and will include lots of beautiful flowers for cutting, drying, and even eating, along with tomatoes, peppers, herbs, and more.
Anyone interested in a plant listing or hoping to preorder is encouraged to email Patti at [email protected].
Everything is limited. Cheshire Garden only sells extra plants from the garden, this is not a big box store situation. Once they’re gone, they’re gone!

05/14/2026

Calling all Monadnock Region farms, food producers, farmstands, bakeries, and local food businesses 🌱

We’re updating the Monadnock Grown Local Food Guide and would love to include you.

The guide helps connect community members with local farms, specialty foods, CSA programs, maple producers, artisan products, and more throughout the region.
Whether you sell vegetables, eggs, flowers, baked goods, meat, cheese, mushrooms, coffee, value-added products, or operate a farmstand, we encourage you to sign up.

Please fill out the form here:
https://tinyurl.com/2s4xp8cn

Help us continue building a stronger, more connected local food system across the Monadnock Region.
Please share with fellow producers and growers!

05/11/2026

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Gardens across New Hampshire are starting to grow. Here are a few seasonal reminders from UNH Extension:

Protect yourself from ticks when spending time outdoors by wearing long sleeves, tucking pants into socks, and choosing light-colored clothing to help spot ticks more easily. Treating clothing with permethrin can provide additional protection.

Hold off on planting warm-season vegetables like tomatoes, peppers, squash, and cucumbers until the risk of frost has passed and nighttime temperatures stay above 50°F. In New Hampshire, that’s usually mid-to-late May.

Prune spring flowering shrubs like lilac and forsythia soon after they finish blooming. Pruning too early can remove flower buds.

Keep an eye out for invasive plants. Many leaf out earlier than native vegetation, making spring a good time to control them before they go to seed.

Find more seasonal gardening tips at the link in the comments.

UNH Extension Yard & Garden

05/04/2026

Learn how to Turn Your Lawn into an Edible Landscape! Join Gemmo Forest for PermaSkills workshops in Keene. May 16 and 20. Saturdays, 10am - 12pm. RSVP at email in poster, below.

05/04/2026

IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN! Pollinator Palooza! Join the Cheshire County Conservation District for a fun afternoon of pollen in action! 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

05/04/2026

Of the 356 species of turtles worldwide, approximately 61% are threatened or already extinct.

Join CCCD for:
Making Your Turtle Sightings Count
When: May 12th, 2026, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Where: Online, Zoom

It’s always exciting to encounter a turtle in the wild — but did you know that it’s also an opportunity to contribute to turtle conservation? Join NH Fish and Game turtle biologist Josh Megysey and Harris Center ecologist Nate Marchessault to learn how you can turn your turtle photos into data that can be used for research and conservation. Register here! https://lljvw4cab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001N811hRUBafysJI0SNEs0ScD12Dug3kO-YyeK1k_3ZQYCsaMBigEmp2Bp0cXQGepnFp9jE4nEUghWPIArsdYjaDZaHRc-adq9xZLHJ2URdgtNDICL6fLBoX5h_qVGnckealdQsm9O7tWwdid7Rv4ZmkjjKiLdTd24lV-cfrdpZjDuG3wOdxJ7d3eADgQldZnDyaFPd6W35w7oJolgXcDXPQ==&c=zm5cpIemjRD5pYxLN4rI07IwXc8M7PM6-RwNMn_wcsoTth3x-_5uNg==&ch=IGLnbgKM6kb5GgXJSVuL4j441SHu9i3LUiYO8QWmaxMKTYS1uNCliA==

04/29/2026

🍓🍓🍓THIS SATURDAY, from 2-3 PM: April 25 - Come Hear about Native Americans and their Wild/Native Strawberry Plants. Bring one home for your full sun garden!

Let's Grow at 100 Church Street, Keene, NH🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓

You can come alone but you can also bring a buddy. They don't have to be YOUR children. They can be your neighbor's or your grandchild or your niece/nephew. Small-scale, project gardening is a great activity to make fun memories and discover that we can grow some of our own food at home! Come play with us and grow fun veggies/fruits right in our neighborhood.

⭐🌟⭐🌟City of Keene Compost is Available: If possible, be sure to bring a 5-gallon bucket to bring home FREE compost for your home garden!

BACKGROUND: A small group of us East Siders are volunteering, as you may have heard, to create activities for this tiny green space in our 'hood throughout the summer. Watch for more postings soon.

For this project, a generous East Side Neighbor has donated funds to buy supplies for me to be able to offer six, 1-hour workshops FREE at the 100 Church Street site this spring in Keene, NH.

Next:
May 2 - Let’s Grow Lettuce & Chard, and
May 9 - Let’s Grow Marigold Flowers in a Spiral,
May 16 - Let’s Grow Pie Pumpkins!

No RSVP is needed. We'll hold it in a light shower but not a downpour. No rain dates. Walk if you can because parking is limited. See you soon!

04/17/2026

We’ve got something new waiting for you in the cooler… beef enchiladas are officially part of the grab-and-go lineup. Easy, hearty, and ready when you are.

01/17/2026

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Our annual Seedling Sale is now live! We’re offering a vibrant selection of organically grown flowers, herbs, and vegetables - plus Plant Bundles to make garden planning easy.

All seedlings are grown and cared for by Student Farmers at our Educational Farm. Every purchase directly supports hands-on learning and meaningful work experiences for local youth.

Order now and pick up in May. Visit our website to view the full selection and get growing! Link in comments.🌿

01/13/2026

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Join us February 6-8, 2026 for our 79th anniversary celebration! This weekend only: Snow volleyball, traditional Finnish sauna sessions, and a live band on Saturday night! Hope to see you there! 💃🏻🕺🏻