Farm Fresh

Where to PYO, join a CSA or find a farmer

Manchester, Bedford, Merrimack, and Amherst all host seasonal weekly markets where you can expect to find vegetables, fresh seafood, organic meat, and crafts.  Most retain a presence on Facebook, where they post their hours and a list of vendors.  


Community Supported Agriculture


A CSA is a subscription service that provides members with a weekly supply of organic, high quality, locally grown, and seasonally fresh food at an affordable price.  It is a way to support local community farms with equitable prices and sometimes provides an opportunity for members to participate in farming activities.  It is a fantastic way to introduce to your children where their food comes from.


Benedikt Dairy
Goffstown
A small farm on the edge of Mount Uncanoonic overlooking downtown Manchester.  Grass-fed Jersey cow dairy and vegetable farm.  Year round farm stand offers raw milk, cream, cheeses, beef, and vegetables.  A year round dairy CSA, a summer vegetable CSA, and a summer flower CSA are available.

Local Harvest
Concord
First cooperative CSA in New Hampshire. They work with multiple farms, including some in Weare and New Boston, and let farmers focus on growing what they grow best while subscribers benefit from the diversity of multiple farms.  Pick up sites in Bedford and Hookset.

Fresh Start Farms
Manchester
Fresh Start Farms is a collective of refugee and immigrant farmers.  Twenty-three new American farmers comprise Fresh Start Farms.  Produce is grown both in Dunbarton and in Concord.  A great cause and some great produce.  Several CSA options, and you can expect some produce you won't find at your local market.  Also operates a market in Manchester at 150 Spruce St.  Open Tuesday and Wednesday.  Check website for hours.

Hungry Bear Farms
Mason
Midsize organic farm growing more than 40 crops.  Offers a Spring season CSA that runs for 8 weeks.  The full season runs for 20 weeks into October.  Pickup is onsite in Mason.


Pick Your Own 

While most people associate PYO with apples, New Hampshire is awash in pick your own fruit, from berries to peaches to grapes.  Most operate farm stands where lots of other produce can be purchased.  Berry season starts in mid June while apple season tends to begin after Labor Day.


Brookdale Fruit Farm
Hollis
Farm stand is open May through January. Pick your own strawberries, cherries, blueberries, and raspberries. They sell flowers and fruit trees to plant at home as well.

Currier Orchards
Merrimack
Set on a farm that dates back to the mid-1800s, the orchard now grows ten varieties of apples. Pick your own season runs from Labor Day to Thanksgiving. A small farm stand is open during the season as well.

Devriendt Farm Products
Goffstown
Family farm for over 25 years, with 14 greenhouses and pyo strawberries and pumpkins. Ice cream shop on the farm as well.   Corn Maze in the fall is always fun for the kids.  They grow Christmas trees onsite and sell them, plus decorated wreaths before the Holidays.

Mack's Apples
Londonderry
Dating back to 1732 and at an impressive 400 acres, Mack's is the granddaddy of them all. With numerous orchards spread around town,  there are pyo apples, pears, peaches, and pumpkins. The season starts in August and runs through November, with ice cream seasonally.  Farm stand is open year round and has a nice mix of fruits, vegetables, cider, baked goods, and jams.  

Trombly Gardens
Milford
Pyo strawberries and tomatoes with a farm stand with vegetables and fresh fish.  Farm animals and a corn maze make this a fun weekend activity with the kids.  Ice cream is available.  


Gould Hill Farm
Contoocook
The drive is worth it.  Make a day out of it.  Over 100 varieties of apples for picking. Peaches and blueberries are pick your own as well.  They grow eight varieties of garlic, which you can purchase at the farm store.  Fresh cider donuts as well as other baked goods can be had in the restored barn. They have a hard cidery below the barn with live music on fall weekends, which is usually hopping.  The views are spectacular.