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 [...]

Tracie’s Community Farm began in 2001 as a small CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm in Sullivan, NH (see Tracie’s profile in the  farm women’s category).
As with all CSAs members  purchased a share in  Tracie’s small farm to assure getting a high quality product each week during the coming  season. CSA shares provide “seed” money for the farmer to [...]