The full-time bookkeeper, packager, shipper, and marketer of Sunday Mountain Maple Farm is a 68 year old woman named Betty Messer. She also constitutes the sales staff for the New Hampshire farm. It was just over 20 years ago that Betty’s husband, Paul, turned in his badge at the Hanover Police Department to run their [...]

As with many of the farm women, Jenny reports that her farm is a full partnership with her husband, Andy. Both are fully employed on the farm. During the winter Jenny works on the books and Andy spends much of his time in the woods on his skidder,  but come March , Andy is milking [...]

Lisa left a successful 20 year career in high tech sales and marketing to farm Mack Hill Farm with her husband Frank. During the week she is on her own to care for all the animals, tend the gardens, put up food for the winter, spin her sheep’s wool, make cheese, and bake bread. There [...]

While studying Environmental Horticulture at the University of New Hampshire, Tracie Smith, at age 19, started to farm on a small scale to get hands on experience in fulfilling a dream to homestead and farm. Over the years her farm has grown into a thriving operation that feeds the community, the soil, those that work [...]