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New Hampshire Apple Day Kicks Off Season at Sunnycrest Farm

(Right to left) Governor Chris Sununu joins NH Commissioner of Agriculture Shawn Jasper and Dan Hicks, owner of Sunnycrest Farm in Londonderry, to mark the official start of apple season in New Hampshire.

Thursday, September 6th marked the beginning of apple season in New Hampshire as Governor Chris Sununu made the ceremonial first pick at Sunnycrest Farm in Londonderry alongside Commissioner of Agriculture, Markets & Food Shawn Jasper, Sunnycrest owner Dan Hicks, and UNH Cooperative Extension Fruit & Vegetable Production Field Specialist George Hamilton. Also on hand were members of the New England Apple Association and New Hampshire Fruit Growers Association.

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Agriculture and America’s Pastime

Over the previous three years, over seven million households, on average, have tuned in to watch the Major League Baseball All-Star game and Tuesday night’s game should be no exception. Marking the mid-way point of the season, the All-Star Game pits the best players from the American League versus their National League counterparts for bragging rights at the highest level of America’s pastime.

This year, the midsummer classic is being hosted at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., just a few miles away from the American Farm Bureau Federation headquarters. So, AFBF is swinging for the fences and placing an ad in the MLB All-Star Game Program.

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Young Farmers’ Harvest for All Collects 7,855 Pounds From NH Farms for NH Food Banks

The NH Young Farmers are grateful to all the farms who participated in August's Harvest for All donation. Chip Hardy (far right) and the crew at Brookdale Fruit Farm poses here alongside their donation of 3 pallets of tomatoes!
Jackie Johnson and Justin Roberts, Granite State FFA State Officers, helped collect produce from the seacoast region to contribute towards the 7,855 total pounds of food donated on August 15th.
Young Farmers unload fresh produce at the NH Food Bank in Manchester. WMUR was there to capture one of the many truckloads of fruits and veggies brought in that day.
Young Farmer Committee Chair Amy Matarozzo (left) and Vice-Chair Christina Murdock could not be happier seeing the generosity of local farms contributing to the Harvest for All program.
Theo Mongeau (right) and NH Food Bank staff work to unload donations at the NH Food Bank in Manchester.

Concord, NH – Over 7,800 pounds of fruits and vegetables were donated to the Friendly Kitchen in Concord and the NH Food Bank in Manchester thanks to volunteers from the New Hampshire Farm Bureau Federation Young Farmers Committee and the generosity of local farms. The Young Farmers, with some help from two Granite State FFA Officers, spent Monday August 15^th travelling across the state visiting 11 farms to pick up produce donations for the Harvest for All program.

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