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 [...]

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 [...]

Roll back the years, to April 22, 1970. The first “Earth Day” was being celebrated around the country. Caroline Saltonstall and Buck Robinson, later to be husband and wife, were participating in different parts of the country in this first environmental “teach in.”  Thus begins the tale of these early innovators to help nudge the country, [...]