As with many modern farmers, Tim and Amy Bassett would like to be working their land full time and with total devotion; after all, farming is in their blood.  Tim is a fourth generation farmer, growing up on their family dairy farm, now run by his brother in Woodstock, Vermont.  Amy’s grandfather, was a dairy [...]

David and Andrea Craxton are romantics, which explains why David says, “Part of planting for me is poetry. I often plant by the color of the vegetables or their leaves, and certain vegetables remind me of people. So when I plant, I think of them.” His wife, Andrea, who happens to be a practicing poet [...]

The Comtois family lives in the historic tradition of the self-sufficient New Hampshire farm. Guy initiated that approach by building the family home for his wife, Barbara, and their two sons, whom Barbara home schools. Pausing for breath after he had provided shelter for his family, Guy built two green houses for his produce business, [...]

“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 [...]