How to Get NH Products Into Your School
To get NH products into your schools, follow these “six steps to success:”
- Contact Stacey Purslow at the NHFTS Program
- Phone: 603-862-2542
- E-mail: stacey.purslow@unh.edu
- She will assist you with all of the following steps and will answer any questions you have about the program.
- Working with NHFTS and your local farmer(s), determine the following:
- Appropriate products and quantities desired/available
- Packaging requirements
- Billing/payment method and dates
- Insurance requirements
- Distribution methods, frequency, dates and times
- Price of product
- Once step two is complete, contract with your farmer and/or distributer and begin offering fresh, local foods in your school!
- Get NHFTS posters to proudly display in your cafeterias and schools announcing that you are providing local products.
- Let your school staff, students and parents know what you are doing and direct them to the NHFTS website for more information.
- Add more local products to your cafeterias menu!
Participating Distributors
- Black River Produce (Springfield, VT)
- Costa Fruit & Produce (Boston, MA)
- Donabedian Brothers (Salem, NH)
- Food Connects (Brattleboro, VT)
- Granite State Fruit (Manchester, NH)
- Native Maine Produce & Specialty Foods (Westbrook, ME)
- New England Growers’ Co-op
- Prickly Pear Produce (Merrimack, NH)
- Saunders Wholesale Fruit & Produce (Somersworth, NH)
- Shaheen Brothers (Amesbury, MA)
- Sysco Northern New England (Westbrook, ME)
- Three Rivers Farmers Alliance (Seacoast, NH)
- Upper Valley Produce (White River Junction, VT)