As with most farm families, the kitchen is where the action is. One winter morning at the Robie Farm, as members of the family completed their first-of-the-morning chores, each came in to fix breakfast.  Freeman, the eldest son of Betty Sue and Lee, after completing what he called his “grunt work,” set two Robie farm-fresh eggs [...]

Located in Dorchester, New Hampshire, the mission of D Acres is to function as an educational center that researches, applies and teaches skills of sustainable living and small-scale organic farming.  Striving to improve the human relationship to the environment, the center functions as a demonstration farm to role model exemplars of healthy living. Sharing a [...]

In the 1950s Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Erb purchased the land of several small neighboring farms in Landaff, New Hampshire, a small town in the northwestern part of the state. Frederick, a veterinarian, attached a clinic to his house and raised Holstein dairy cattle with his young son Doug as a helper.
By the 1980s, Doug [...]

Last year (2008) was the first year that Sunday Mountain Maple Farm, a New Hampshire Farm of Distinction, in Orford, NH used the system of reverse osmosis to speed up the boiling down of its sap and 2008 was the year they received the Carlisle Trophy ( Lawrence A. Carlisle, a former commissioner of New [...]