David and Andrea Craxton are romantics, which explains why David says, “Part of planting for me is poetry. I often plant by the color of the vegetables or their leaves, and certain vegetables remind me of people. So when I plant, I think of them.” His wife, Andrea, who happens to be a practicing poet [...]

Apple Haven Farm, Colebrook, NH
Unless you take a long hard look, Apple Haven Farm seems bereft of its namesake apples. But off Piper Hill Road in Colebrook, the current owner Patti Craig found between the volunteer evergreens an overgrown orchard, desolate and long abandoned, but the month was May and the trees were in full [...]

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 [...]