It was the year 1761, a mere nine years after  Walpole was chartered, that John Graves bought two large lots and moved from Saybrook, Connecticut to New Hampshire. The history of two of the tracts is lost. The third piece, today called Great Brook Farm named after the brook nearby, continues the Graves dairy farming tradition that John [...]

Lori Schreier and her husband, James Warren, farm two acres of their three acre parcel of what was formerly the 50 year old Hall Family Farm in Westmoreland, New Hampshire. They live in an original farmhouse built back in the early 1800s with, according to Lori, “the old corn barn out back.” A grandson of [...]

Mack Hill Farm, located in southwest New Hampshire,  is a small diversified farm specializing in pastured heritage breeds with registered Tamworth pigs, Icelandic sheep, chickens, Toulouse geese, Percheron horses, Midget White turkeys, and Pekin ducks.
One mile from the village of Marlow, the farm is made up of 343 acres of mostly woods and swamps. The [...]

While studying Environmental Horticulture at the University of New Hampshire, Tracie Smith, at age 19, started to farm on a small scale to get hands on experience in fulfilling a dream to homestead and farm. Over the years her farm has grown into a thriving operation that feeds the community, the soil, those that work [...]