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Taylor Brothers Sugarhouse & Creamery, Meriden Village, NH
Posted April 21, 2010
Taylor Brothers Sugarhouse & Creamery, Meriden Village, NH

Taylor Brothers Sugarhouse & Creamery got its start in the 1970s when Jim, Bill, and Rob Taylor were youngsters working on their family’s dairy farm. For fun, they tapped some maple trees in the neighborhood, borrowed an old canning pot from their mother, built an arch of concrete blocks and went into the syrup business.
Gradually [...]

Cutting Farm, West Springfield, NH
Posted March 2, 2009
Cutting Farm, West Springfield, NH

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 [...]

Edgewater Farm, Plainfield NH
Posted December 31, 2008
Edgewater Farm, Plainfield NH

A family owned farm located on the rich alluvial plains of the Connecticut River. Beginning with a  strawberry crop in 1976, today, in 2008, Anne and Pooh Sprague with their two children Sarah and Ray as well as 24 year veteran Mike Harrington manage a farm of 170 acres with about 60 tillable acres on [...]

Beaver Pond Farm, Newport, NH
Posted December 2, 2008

A “National Bicentennial Farm,” as it was chopped out of virgin woodland in 1780, now has a thriving maple sugaring business with 2,500 taps for New Hampshire graded syrup beginning in March. During the summer their crops include a pick your own raspberry patch and blueberries and vegetables at the stand. Fall is pumpkin and [...]