Fresh Chicken

Seacoast Eat Local sends word:

If you've been following the all-of-a-sudden-and-for-no-good-reason-we-can't-have-chicken-at-the-Portsmouth-Farmers'-Market story, you know that Kellie Brook Farm among other farms has been put in a rough spot due to the lack of warning that this outlet for their products would no longer be available for them. While we continue to fight the good fight to get chicken back to the market, the chickens are already on farm, already growing, and once a month a mobile processing unit comes and the chickens meet their end, filling up the freezers of Kellie Brook Farm. For the chickens, the mobile unit is a very good way to go - no travel means less stress. For the farmer, it is a clean, well-run operation. For the consumer, it means for a few days each month, we get to buy fresh, never frozen, free-range, local chicken! The frozen ones are just fine by me, but the fresh ones are a real treat, a very special, very delicious and somewhat rare product.

And this is the week! Kellie Brook Farm will have fresh chickens for sale from Thursday, August 7 to Saturday, August 9 at the farm at 1024 Portsmouth Avenue (Rte 33), in Greenland, NH. Fresh chickens will also be for sale at the Exeter Farmers' Market on Thursday, August 7 from 2:15-6pm, in Swazey Parkway in Exeter.

Directions to Kellie Brook Farm (.pdf)

Portsmouth Herald article on the chicken ban
Foster's Daily Democrat article on the chicken ban

Visit Kellie Brook Farm anytime of day this Thursday, Friday, or Saturday or the Exeter Farmers' Market on Thursday afternoon to buy your chickens. If you've been wondering what you can do to participate in NH Eat Local Week, this would be a great start!