A mutual love of all animals was the bond that forged the friendship between Arthur Mountain and Jess Blaney, but it just so happened that their special passion was for Arthur’s horses, the ones that Jess used to shoe.
Deep as their affection was for those noble beasts, however, farming was their special calling, so in [...]

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 [...]

“New Hampshire Farm of Distinction” is the term that New Hampshire’s Department of Agriculture, Markets, & Food reserves for farms which are “pleasing in appearance.” And although Alice and Earl Tuson, owners of Loudon’s Red Manse Farm, report that “we are not there yet,” this energetic young couple is well on their way to returning [...]

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 [...]