Genuine Local

In celebration of 10 years of helping food entrepreneurs grow and succeed… we’ve launched a new website! Easier to navigate, clean and simple - we ❤️❤️❤️ it! Enjoy a quick look back and see how we’ve grown! Huge shoutout to Anna Fleishman Designs and for funding through the RFSI program.
Cheers to many more years!
Check it out at www.GenuineLocal.org.

Great opportunity to get that required training under your belt if you are or want to make acidified foods!

Better Process Control School – Acidified Foods Only
📍 Worcester Food Hub | 📅 2-Day In-Person Training | 💵 $650
Get FDA & USDA certified in acidified food processing! This hands-on course covers microbiology, sanitation, thermal processing, and container closure evaluation—designed for processors of shelf-stable acidified foods (21 CFR 114).
✅ FDA-approved training manual
✅ Lunch & coffee breaks
✅ Digital certificate (≥80% exam score)
✅ Taught by UMass Amherst faculty
🔗 Register here and meet regulatory requirements with confidence!

Genuine Local is a proud sponsor of the 2025 NH Food System Statewide Gathering, hosted by the NH Food Alliance on May 21 at the Sanborn Mills Farm in Loudon, New Hampshire.

This year’s Gathering will be the first convening held around the first-ever New Hampshire Food and Agriculture Strategic Plan. The best and brightest farmers, fishers, business owners, and food system professionals from across New Hampshire and New England will be at the Statewide Gathering to dive deeply into the Strategic Plan content through breakout sessions and make connections through Strategic Plan-focused networking activities, all aimed at catapulting our collective work from strategic planning and into strategic action. Registration is open but space is limited, so register today before the deadline on May 9!

2025 NH Food System Statewide Gathering registration: https://www.nhfoodalliance.org/get-involved/join-network/nh-food-system-statewide-gathering

deadline to report is January 1, 2025...

Understanding Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) and How to Report A webinar for small businesses across SBA Regions 1 & 2. Learn about new reporting requirements for many new and existing small businesses.

Thank you to our sponsor, Genuine Local!

I spy with my little eye, the Vernon family on the cover of the 🤪🥹😳

This photograph, sent to us by a customer, is one of many that made us go—WOW. How? What? Us? This? NO WAY!

💪 Damn straight that a hard working farming family is among some of these other big names, big magazines. Supporting farms is essential to keeping them alive in our communities rather than letting them disappear and become relics of a forgotten past. But here’s something you need to know—there are SO many farms in our state, in New England, in our country that deserve this honor, this type of recognition too.

When we invest in local farms, we protect a way of life that nourishes both the land and the people. Farms are the roots of our community, and without them, we risk losing the foundation of who we are. Let’s fight against that dreary possibility with ACTION!

This crazy beautiful farming life we live in this Granite State! Support the farms in your community, fiercely.

Happy weekend, your farmers are laboring regardless of the day, weekend, holiday. Here’s to supporting them extra this weekend. ♥️

Look at the sky!! It's a beautiful day to take a drive to Sugar Hill, the leaves are starting to turn and right now there's a lot of activity at Harman's as artisans are setting up for the weekend. Stop up to see us. Our cheese is also out for you to sample!

Local food- and dogs?! Count us in! 🐾

Mark your calendars for September 15th- details in the post below 👇🏻

Next stop for these seedlings- vinaigrette! 🌿 Then where? Shelves near you! Check out Winnipesaukee Woods Farms page to see where you can find their line of delicious Value Added products.

Honey harvested from hives on our farm in hand, garlic popped, and cilantro cut and ready to go for our Cilantro Lime Vinaigrette production this week! It seems like just yesterday we were posting a photo of these seedlings going in and now it's already time to head back into the production kitchen Genuine Local !