Meet Vincent VanGoat, Hermione Grazer, and Meryl Sheep, just a few of the cute and wildly efficient animals from Broken Boat Farm LLC. This livestock landscaping business was tailor-made for the Granite State, and it has seen unbelievable growth in a short time span....
HGC is hiring a Program Director with a focus on biotech. This new position at the Hannah Grimes Center is a three-and-a-half-year role made possible by a Community Fund Project grant secured through the Congressionally Directed Spending process. It is currently...
Owen Miller grew up in East Alstead, a small, rural village in Southern New Hampshire that’s big on community. His story then took him around the globe on a remarkable exploration of food and drink. From Grenada, where he supported cacao growers for L.A. Burdick...
For Katherine Skipper (aka Cheri Flambé), the powerhouse producer and performer behind Flambé Cabaret, burlesque brings together a lifetime of passions. As a classically trained dancer in her youth, she took notice of the circus arts in high school and quickly began...
How many small business owners can say half their community lined up outside to welcome them on their opening day? Elisabeth Branch can because that’s exactly what happened in the quiet town of Stoddard, New Hampshire, when she took over ownership of Mill Village...
The following case study was developed as a part of the Radically Rural project funded through a Northern Border Regional Commission grant. Early Origins: 1991–1997 Mary Ann Kristiansen, founder of Hannah Grimes, came to the Monadnock Region of New Hampshire in 1991....
By Program Coordinator, Lillian Chase The 2023 Fall Business Lab Program is coming to a close, so I thought I would share the deliverables we ask our entrepreneurs for. The first is the business pitch, which those of you in our community get to see live and in person...
Check out this article in The Keene Sentinel about our recent Food Business Lab graduates, Owen Miller and Timothy Coronis. Both coffee roasting businesses completed our Food Business Lab last month.
Monadnock Region natives Megan Baptiste-Field and her husband, Dan Field, founders of Bending Branch Farm, bought the farm property at 65 Richardson Road in Marlborough on March 3, closing on the site for $435,000. The couple plans to move all of its business from...
A new child care program in Sullivan wants to see kids grow by safely immersing them in the outdoors while also getting them engaged in activities that teach life lessons. Husband and wife Nicholas and Alicia Perra founded Sapling Acres Preschool in June, serving...
