Is there a more forlorn vision than that of man of the earth being confined to a desk? Not if your happened to be Donald K. McLeod, graduate of the University of New Hampshire in Animal Husbandry back in 1927. On impulse, or perhaps desperation, Donald left that desk in 1946, bought a farm in [...]

There are indeed chickens strutting about Cutting Farm on Sanborn Hill Road, and no shortage of vegetables growing in neatly tended rows, and beef cattle graze placidly in its pastures, much like countless other New Hampshire farms. But what gives Cutting Farm its defining signature are the honey bees and their delicious harvest gathered lovingly [...]

It was the year 1761, a mere nine years after  Walpole was chartered, that John Graves bought two large lots and moved from Saybrook, Connecticut to New Hampshire. The history of two of the tracts is lost. The third piece, today called Great Brook Farm named after the brook nearby, continues the Graves dairy farming tradition that John [...]

Early American history and modern times come together at McClary Hill Farm. Barbara and Dave Stewart’s 18th century farmhouse sets on the hill which got its name from the first Scotch-Irish pair to settle in their town of Epsom. Dave, formerly an owner of a company that manufactured custom molded polyurethane parts for things ranging [...]