We are Will and Victoria, a husband-and-wife team that started our small urban farm, Cora Hillside Micro Farm, in 2020. After moving to NH in 2018, looking for a simpler life and some space, we realized we wanted to learn more about being self-sufficient. While figuring out how that would work with our busy lives, we discovered Will had quite the green thumb. We originally had a small garden in our backyard, which has slowly graduated to our front yard. We couldn’t seem to get enough as we learned more about fruit forests and permaculture. That’s when Will decided to take a stab at growing microgreens. He did tons of research to learn how to grow them, what they would taste like, what they could be used for, where to get the best products and seeds, and their health benefits. For the last three years, we have turned what started as a hobby and a way to provide for our family into a labor of love where we can offer delicious products to our local communities. Though not certified organic, we take pride in our products by using organic practices.
Here at CHMF, our customers can find that our Micro Greens and Fresh Eggs are offered year-round. We have chicken and duck eggs and an array of Microgreen choices, including sweet pea, Rambo radish, spicy salad mix, sunflower, and broccoli. Though our microgreen menu can change, the options listed are favorites that often stay on the menu. We offer other fresh produce during the Spring, Summer, and Fall months. We enjoy the growing process and know we are offering our customers fresh organic greens at a reasonable price.
We both work full-time jobs and grow fresh products in our free time. We have really enjoyed the experience of meeting other farmers through learning. Will continues to work as a machinist in Plaistow and can extend our services in that area. Victoria continues to work as a social worker in Manchester. We have 35 chickens on the farm that lay us various colorful eggs, 2 Great Danes, two playful cats, and an iguana. To say we are busy is an understatement, but that’s how we like it! We look forward to sharing our product and our journey with you!
Cucina Aurora Kitchen Witchery helps you make all your meals magic! With gourmet foods like marinara sauces, olive oils, risottos, dips and coffees. Each item is lovingly made by hand in Salem NH using only the best, gluten free and vegan ingredients. Owner and popular “kitchen witch” Dawn Aurora Hunt is a favorite on WMUR’s Cooks Corner and brings inspiration and a pinch of magic to mundane meals with easy recipes ideas and simple solutions like twenty minute simmer and serve risottos, or delightful dips that make snacking a breeze.
We are excited to welcome Cucina Aurora to the Candia Farmers Market this season!
We are Matt and Alex, and we started Forest Fed Farmstead in 2021 to feed ourselves and our community healthy locally, locally-produced food. On our little 2-acre space, we have several garden beds to rotate our crops, a small orchard planted in 2021, and a fifty-foot-long high tunnel. We believe in working with nature and not against it at Forest Fed Farmstead, so we don’t use chemical pesticides or herbicides on our farm. We utilize plastic tarps and chickens to kill off grass and weeds in our new and existing garden plots between plantings, eliminating the need to use chemicals or rototill. To keep healthy soil, we plant cover crops in beds not currently in production.
We grow an assortment of seasonal vegetables, including, but not limited to, tomatoes, sweet peppers, hot peppers, lettuce and baby greens, various root crops, and garlic. In late spring/early summer, we also have strawberries available.
We raise chickens for eggs that are rotated around the farm throughout the year, and they always have fresh grass and bugs to enjoy. We also adopted two pygmy goats this year with the hopes of being able to breed them for fresh milk, and we have three pigs that we are raising for ourselves and our family members. We hope to raise more pigs next year to sell. We look forward to sharing our bounty again this season at the Candia Farmers Market. We hope you’ll stick with us while we grow our little farm.
Fresh Start Farms is a collective brand for immigrant and refugee farmers participating in the New American Sustainable Agriculture Program, a program of the Organization for Refugee and Immigrant Success. We work alongside new American farmers to bring farm-fresh ingredients to your table via neighborhood farmers markets and stands, wholesale, and our FarmShare and Fresh Start Market.
Farmer Fadumo and her daughters have been with the Candia Farmers Market since 2022. They always have a wide variety of vegetables and fruits to choose from each month.
