Discover(ing) Sustainability

Last night, I made gazpacho. From an eat local perspective, this was a home run: I harvested the tomatoes, basil, and parsley from my front yard; bought cucumbers, onions and garlic at the Portsmouth Farmer’s Market; and even dripped in a tablespoon of honey from a Vermont friend’s hives. Of course, all those so-fresh-you-gotta-slap-em vegetables [...]

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Photos from UOS’s lunch at the Dairy Bar reopening: I can’t scream it loud enough: the Dairy Bar is open!

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Photos from our Eat Local Week!   Posted on behalf of Charlotte Todd, UOS’s STARS Intern and a senior at UNH  What a wonderful summer for an intern! The UNH University Office of Sustainability couldn’t be a more fun and interesting place to work. This past week however was really “grade A.” NH Eat Local Week has provided [...]

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Photos from our Eat Local Week! Posted on behalf of Alaina, UOS’s administrative assistant  Today is the last day of NH Eat Local Week for UOS, and it was my turn to share a local dish with everyone! Being the last person, and having tasted everyone’s delicious creations, I knew I was going to have quite [...]

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Photos from our Eat Local Week! Eating local food is not new to me; I eat a lot of it, especially this time of year. So when the NH Eat Local Week was announced, I thought I’d better up the ante for myself. Driving home one day I passed the road leading to Brookford Farm, [...]

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Photos from our Eat Local Week! Dateline: August 2, 2008, 11:00 am Countdown: 13 hours to midnight and the start of NH Eat Local Week! Having just arrived home from an unplanned trip to the west coast, I get up early (10:00 is 7:00 PDT remember), have breakfast and begin to think about what to [...]

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It was a challenge to follow-up Brett and Juliet’s great local lunch with one of my own, but I think it all turned out delicious!  Plus I had the added challenge of planning the sweets for a surprise office birthday celebration for Alaina (whose birthday is today!) and El (whose birthday is next week). Like Brett and Juliet, my [...]

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As the first person in the office to take the NH Eat Local Week challenge, I wasn’t quite sure what to try. So I thought I would start by wandering around the Portsmouth farmers market this Saturday to see what inspired me. There were lots great things to choose from, and I ended up with the following purchases:  An [...]

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This is posted on behalf of Juliet Bluemling, our Local Harvest Initiative Intern.  This summer I was fortunate to be part of an internship created by UOS and Dining Services: The Local Harvest Initiative Internship. I am a Hospitality Management Major at UNH, but am also extremely interested in agriculture. As you might imagine, this [...]

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