Since the profile of the Brookdale Fruit Farm appeared in the book New Hampshire: From Farm to Kitchen (2004), and which spawned www.newhampshirefarms.net, much on the farm has changed, yet much remains the same with the Hardy and Whittemore families remaining  in control.
A new generation of Hardys, Chip’s sons, Trevor and Tyler, often called the [...]

Located high on a hill in Mason, New Hampshire Barrett Hill Farm has seen its share of lightning. In fact, it was lightning that destroyed the original farmhouse and barns, forcing the farm to be moved to Ashburnham, Massachusetts. Ralph Barrett fully rebuilt the farm in the 1960’s on a beautiful spot from which you [...]

Husband and father, David Lewis’s joy was raising Border Collies and the herding competitions that followed; wife and mother, Linda’s passion was the great outdoors; daughter Kaitlin was never happier than when she was working with animals. Clearly, for the Lewis clan there was something lacking with their congested living on Massachusetts’ North Shore. And [...]

Nestled among tall evergreen trees at the top of a hill and amidst stone walls, cellar holes, and the rocks of an old homestead, visitors might very well wonder how Greenfield, New Hampshire’s Stonegate Farm and Flowers manages to grow much of anything let alone be a flourishing perennial and tree farm.
During the winter, the [...]