“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, [...]

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 [...]

At the top of Storrs Hill from the family farm’s side porch Heidi Bundy looks out over the property that has been in the Storrs – Townsend families since 1769. Below, at the bottom of a grassy lawn, she points out with justifiable pride a nut tree grove that got its start when her great, [...]