Charles and Dina Farrell are part of a movement giving re-birth to family farming in the most traditional sense. They are building a self-sustaining farm that produces everything necessary to provide for their family of four children and for the customers at their farmstand.
Their farm name reflects this renascence of the rural farm family. According [...]
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A Citizen’s Guide to Restoring Our Local Foods, Farms and Independence
by Jeremy Lougee
The New Hampshire Coalition for Sustaining Agriculture is an informal network of organizations and individuals dedicated to enhancing the social, economic and environmental sustainability of agriculture in New Hampshire. The Coalition brings together members of the farm community and the non-farming public [...]
One look at www.beansandgreens.com will tell you that Beans & Greens farm owners Andy and Martina Howe know how to move a farm from the past into the present and on into the future.
As for the past, it was 1986 when they discovered that selling milk and hay as a dairy farm was a [...]
On a sparkling fall day on the property of the prestigious and affluent St. Paul’s School in Concord, NH, Vegetable Ranch owner Larry Pletcher kneels in freshly tilled soil planting spinach. In the next field over, the school is preparing an artificial turf lacrosse and soccer field for opening day. Lifestyle contrasts for sure. But fortunately for Larry, who needed the land to grow his certified organic vegetables, the school agreed to lease the neighboring field to him for what is now universally deemed a good cause.
Moving from teaching seventh and eighth graders to co-owning and managing a farm and dining pavilion might seem an enormous career jump for many, but though she carries memories of hard work on her parents’ farm, far more vivid and cherished recollections spawned her interest in restoring, with her husband, an old farm in Holderness, [...]
Since the profile of the Brookdale Fruit Farm appeared in the book New Hampshire: From Farm to Kitchen (2004), and which spawned www.newhampshirefarms.net, much on the farm has changed, yet much remains the same with the Hardy and Whittemore families remaining in control.
A new generation of Hardys, Chip’s sons, Trevor and Tyler, often called the [...]
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