New Hampshire Grafton County (Plymouth/Hanover/Littleton Region)
Heidi Bundy of Tomapo Farm on Storrs Hill in Lebanon, NH recently sent www.newhampshirefarms.net a note vividly describing the many Spring chores on her parents, Bruce and Merinda Townsend’s, farm:
We have been busy with sugar season and getting hives ready for bees, chicken pen ready for chicks and clearing out the barn in preparation for [...]
In 1956, Forrest Bunten learned of a farm for sale while reading the New Hampshire Department of Agriculture’s “Weekly Market Bulletin.” Without missing a beat, he drove immediately from Concord to Orford, met a realtor, looked around the outside of the farmhouse, and decided it was big enough for the family of five children and [...]
“At Labor Day,” says Lorri Downs of Longhaul Farm in Holderness, New Hampshire, “It’s as if someone put on a customer dimmer switch, and the light is cut off by Columbus Day,” and that just isn’t going to cut it for the owners of this farm.With over a 50% seasonal population, Lorri and her husband [...]
Moving from teaching seventh and eighth graders to co-owning and managing a farm and dining pavilion might seem an enormous career jump for many, but though she carries memories of hard work on her parents’ farm, far more vivid and cherished recollections spawned her interest in restoring, with her husband, an old farm in Holderness, [...]




