Tucked away among the grim stories that attended the wrenching 1920s Depression, were occasional nuggets of hope and even some happy times. Consider, for instance, the purchase of a bankrupt farm by the father and mother of Haven Haynes in Colebrook, New Hampshire. It was most assuredly not a time of abundance for the Haynes [...]

Outside of the town of Colebrook, sits the 315 acres of New Earth Organic Farm. A developing eco-village related to the Canadian based “Cité Écologique” eco-village ( www.cite-ecologique.com), the land supports 35 people who, in 2004, moved from Florida to Colebrook NH, and by revitalizing the land in an environmentally enlightened way, have dedicated themselves [...]

A mutual love of all animals was the bond that forged the friendship between Arthur Mountain and Jess Blaney, but it just so happened that their special passion was for Arthur’s horses, the ones that Jess used to shoe.
Deep as their affection was for those noble beasts, however, farming was their special calling, so in [...]

Taylor Brothers Sugarhouse & Creamery got its start in the 1970s when Jim, Bill, and Rob Taylor were youngsters working on their family’s dairy farm. For fun, they tapped some maple trees in the neighborhood, borrowed an old canning pot from their mother, built an arch of concrete blocks and went into the syrup business.
Gradually [...]