When asked about the farm name, “Still Seeking,” Michelle Descoteaux responded “I’m done now. I have spent many years trying to figure out what to do with my life.” In 2003, this paralegal and her husband, Keith, a Walmart distribution professional, began farming as “test professions” on three acres of land in Pittsfield, New Hampshire. [...]
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Heidi Bundy of Tomapo Farm on Storrs Hill in Lebanon, NH recently sent www.newhampshirefarms.net a note vividly describing the many Spring chores on her parents, Bruce and Merinda Townsend’s, farm:
We have been busy with sugar season and getting hives ready for bees, chicken pen ready for chicks and clearing out the barn in preparation for [...]
In 1956, Forrest Bunten learned of a farm for sale while reading the New Hampshire Department of Agriculture’s “Weekly Market Bulletin.” Without missing a beat, he drove immediately from Concord to Orford, met a realtor, looked around the outside of the farmhouse, and decided it was big enough for the family of five children and [...]
With the purchase of an 1874 farm house and 126 acres of land in 2005, Sarah Costa and Sam Canonica became a welcome addition to New Hampshire’s hardworking first generation farmers.”Sure,” says Sarah from her Winchester farm, “sometimes I feel sorry for myself, having to bundle up to go to the barn at zero degrees [...]
Established in 2008, by Gary and Fran Van Geyte with a group of local farmers, the New Hampshire CSA (NHCSA), now 70 members strong, is a USDA organically certified multi-farm CSA located on Spring Hill Farm, Towle Road in Chester, New Hampshire. The 500 acre farm was donated to the town by Muriel Church in [...]
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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