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, [...]

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, [...]

Apple Haven Farm, Colebrook, NH
Unless you take a long hard look, Apple Haven Farm seems bereft of its namesake apples. But off Piper Hill Road in Colebrook, the current owner Patti Craig found between the volunteer evergreens an overgrown orchard, desolate and long abandoned, but the month was May and the trees were in full [...]

Two Mountain Farm,  Andover NH
Farming has its challenges and rewards. Consider such enticements as breath-taking scenery and working in the open-air; cultivating and improving the soil; and watching seeds morph into immature plants before they turn into productive ones.  Heady stuff, indeed.  As Katherine “Kat” Darling of Two Mountain Farm in Andover frames it, “Farming [...]