In the early 1970s Bill Bartlett would often pass the Calkin Farm on Bradford Road in Newport and see Tom Calkin, not a young man at the time, painstakingly planting infant blueberry bushes and “I used to wonder ‘when would he ever make a profit?’ ” Blueberries take about eight years to mature.  Bill never [...]

“When it comes to agriculture in NH, we are like an underdeveloped country.” So says Dorn Cox who is currently making a concerted effort to push farming squarely into the 21st century by building what he refers to as a “biological system” for his farm; it is a most singular system and very much a [...]

David and Andrea Craxton are romantics, which explains why David says, “Part of planting for me is poetry. I often plant by the color of the vegetables or their leaves, and certain vegetables remind me of people. So when I plant, I think of them.” His wife, Andrea, who happens to be a practicing poet [...]

The New Hampshire Farm Museum consists of two adjoining farmstead properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is located on Plummer’s Ridge in Milton, New Hampshire.  Two acres of the 50 acre property is being farmed. The remainder of the land consists of fields, woodlands, and buildings. Two historic houses, barns, blacksmith, shoe [...]