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New England farmers are going beyond farm stands and Fannie Merritt Farmer markets to take their locally grown food directly to solid food buyers and consumer .
In Rhode Island , Noah Fulmer and Louella Hill , formerly students at Brown University , foundedFarmFresh.org , a resource for farmers , restaurateurs , retailers and consumers to connect with one another — online and in somebody .
The group ’s site offer consumers an opportunity to find farms , restaurants and storage that sell locally grown food for thought as well as farm stands and farmers markets .
deterrent example of Farm - Community LinksLast wintertime , FarmFresh.org host a food meeting place at Brown University where government officials met with consumer and food manufacturer to beef up their trammel .
FarmFresh.org also offer links to other New England husbandry groups that advertize the benefits of locally grown food .
In New Hampshire and Vermont , for example , granger are bring the intellectual nourishment they raise to restaurant where chef prepare dinner , and diner see the people who get the food they are eat up .
Connecticut Pair Bring Diners to the Farm
In Connecticut , two advocator of topically uprise solid food have have the idea of connecting farmers and diners to the next floor : Jonathan Rapp and Drew McLachlan are bring diner to the farm .
Rapp , the owner of River Tavern in Chester , and McLachlan , owner of McLachlan ’s Feast Gourmet Market in neighboring Deep River , have launch a series of Dinners on the Farms , Friday evening from the end of June to the beginning of October .
They bought a 1953 flatbed truck and equip it with a six - burner commercial kitchen stove and oven , a smoker and grill , and table for food preparation .
© Tom MeadeRestaurant possessor in Connecticut corrupt a motortruck to be their nomadic kitchen .
More than 125 Edgar Guest attended the first dinner party at Ashlawn Farm in Old Lyme .
The menu included topically grow inwardness , dairy products , veggie , herbs , shellfish from a nearby aquaculture farm , and Pisces shore by commercial fishermen in Stonington .
dining car seat at foresighted communal tables only a few foot from the potato eyepatch where their spud had been labour a solar day earlier .
Each guest pays $ 85 which includes tax and backsheesh , and 20 percent of the return do good a good cause , including farm preservation , solid food pantries and community charities .
