The Olde Ways at Mustard Seed Farm, Wolfeboro, NH

Charles and Dina Farrell are part of a movement giving re-birth to family farming in the most traditional sense. They are building a self-sustaining farm that produces everything necessary to provide for their family of four children and for the customers at their farmstand.
Their farm name reflects this renascence of the rural farm family. According [...]

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Heidi Bundy, Tomapo Farm, Lebanon, NH
September 5, 2011
Heidi Bundy, Tomapo Farm, Lebanon, NH

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, [...]

Tomapo Farm, Lebanon, NH
August 9, 2011
Tomapo Farm, Lebanon, NH

Take a quick peek into the Tomapo Farm brochure and you’ll learn that the folks who tend to things on Storrs Hill “have been bringing you pure New Hampshire maple and other Yankee ingenuity,” since 1769.  The farm on Storrs Hill Road dates back well over 200 years under one family. The U.S Department of [...]

Barrett Hill Farm Mason, NH
July 26, 2011
Barrett Hill Farm  Mason, NH

Located high on a hill in Mason, New Hampshire Barrett Hill Farm has seen its share of lightning. In fact, it was lightning that destroyed the original farmhouse and barns, forcing the farm to be moved to Ashburnham, Massachusetts. Ralph Barrett fully rebuilt the farm in the 1960’s on a beautiful spot from which you [...]

Bartlett’s Blueberry Farm, Newport NH
July 15, 2011
Bartlett’s Blueberry Farm, Newport NH

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 [...]