“Harry is our valet, meeter and greeter,” says Chris Balch, when a guest enters the family’s farm house kitchen. Harry is a Burmese dog, weighing in at about 85 pounds pounds.  “We even had a customer who made a red vest and bow-tie for him.”  Chris and her husband Bruce moved into the Chris’s family homestead [...]

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 [...]