Liana Eastman and her husband, Eero Ruutila, welcomed us last evening to their organic farm, tucked between Nesenkeag Brook and the Merrimack. This morning we awoke to sweetbreads and strawberries from the farm stand down the road, and Liana spoke of how the March had started the farmers talking ? she said the participation of the farms in this event had helped forge at tighter community. “Think of the amount of work we could get done if we had this many community members coming by like this all the time,” she said.
When the heat neared 90, we set off, already sweaty but powered on by a good morning swim and early press coverage on NPR, international radio, and the front page of The Nashua Telegraph. As the temperature broke 100 degrees and our voices cracked from singing “Ooo, it’s hot out here” perhaps too many times, Stonyfield came to the rescue with a donation of ice cream for lunch.
A few blocks and blisters later, we arrived in a very different place than where we had started ? Manchester, or fondly referred to by many as Manchvegas, a business capitol for the state. There we were greeted by Representative Lilly Mesa and others who highlighted for us the importance of business in building a green economy.
Every day we’re finding the critical but scattered parts of a green economy here in New Hampshire ? at the farms we stay at, from the words of the people we meet. Now we just need to piece it together.
Join us on Sunday for the Rally to ReEnergize New Hampshire, and help us piece together the workings of a clean energy economy in the Granite State – here, we can lead the nation in the right direction.
And join us today (Friday) as well, as we walk from Manchester to Hooksett!
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