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Resources
- Preserving Rural Character: The Agriculture Connection
Technical Bulletin #6 (Winter 2000)
- Preserving Rural Character through Agriculture: A Resource Kit for Planners
A broad array of useful tools and techniques, compiled by the NH Coalition for Sustaining Agriculture. (The 3-ring manual/kit distributed to all NH municipalities by the Coalition has been scanned and all the contents are now available online.)
- Tools for Preserving Barns and Farms (NHDHR)
- New Hampshire Stories, Inc.
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non-profit membership organization that promotes the quality, variety, and availability of New Hampshire-made products and services.
- Farmland Protection
Department of Agriculture, Markets and Food
- Who's Who in New Hampshire Agriculture
Contact information for people and programs, and a brief economic overview of agriculture in New Hampshire, published by the NH Department of Agriculture, Markets and Food.
- Foster Brothers Farm, Middlebury, VT (www.moodoo.com)
During the energy crisis of the late 1970’s, Foster Brothers Farm, Inc. started producing more than milk to keep the family business going strong. They began producing electricity from cow manure (and continue to do so today). This electricity is used to provide power for the farm and the excess is sold to the local utility. To produce the electricity, the Fosters built an anaerobic digester which uses bacteria to break down the manure into methane gas. The methane gas is used as a clean burning, environmentally safe source of fuel for electrical generation.
- NRCS Farmland and Ranch Land Protection Program
- American Farmland Trust
- Conserving the Family Farm
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manual using plain language on conservation easements and agricultural provisions, produced by the NH Coalition for Sustaining Agriculture and UNH Cooperative Extension, (603) 679-5616.
- D'Acres
The mission of the organization (founded in 1997) is to function as an educational center that researches, applies and teaches skills of sustainable living and small-scale organic farming.
- Is Your Town Farm Friendly?
A checklist for sustaining rural character presented by The New Hampshire Coalition for Sustaining Agriculture and UNH Cooperative Extension.
- Creating an Agricultural Commission in Your Hometown
Lorraine Stuart Merrill, for the NH Coalition for Sustaining Agriculture and UNH Cooperative Extension. Agricultural commissions are an effective mechanism for communities to take positive action to remain or become more farm-friendly.
- New Hampshire Farmers’ Market Association
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Laws and Rules
- SENATE BILL 519
AN ACT establishing a committee to study the establishment of a farm viability program, Effective Date: April 5, 2004
- Laws and Rules
- Best Management Practices
- State law on best management practices for manure management, RSA 431:33-35 applies regardless of local zoning. Generally, if someone does not have enough land to use the manure at agronomic rates, then only temporary storage is allowed and regular hauling and disposal is required. See the BMP manual.
- There is a model Agricultural Incentive Zoning Ordinance that elevates agriculture as the preferred use in appropriate zones (residential uses not associated with agriculture require special use permits). The agricultural district would not be appropriate in more developed parts of town where a zoning ordinance might preclude agricultural uses. The model is part of the Innovative Land Use Planning Techniques: A Handbook for Sustainable Development by DES, OEP, LGC, and the regional planning agencies, with the input of the NH Farm Bureau.
- Good neighbor guide for horse-keeping: manure management UNH Cooperative Extension
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