In the 1950s Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Erb purchased the land of several small neighboring farms in Landaff, New Hampshire, a small town in the northwestern part of the state. Frederick, a veterinarian, attached a clinic to his house and raised Holstein dairy cattle with his young son Doug as a helper.
By the 1980s, Doug [...]

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 [...]

It was the year 1761, a mere nine years after  Walpole was chartered, that John Graves bought two large lots and moved from Saybrook, Connecticut to New Hampshire. The history of two of the tracts is lost. The third piece, today called Great Brook Farm named after the brook nearby, continues the Graves dairy farming tradition that John [...]

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 [...]