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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“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 [...]
As with many modern farmers, Tim and Amy Bassett would like to be working their land full time and with total devotion; after all, farming is in their blood. Tim is a fourth generation farmer, growing up on their family dairy farm, now run by his brother in Woodstock, Vermont. Amy’s grandfather, was a dairy [...]
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 Comtois family lives in the historic tradition of the self-sufficient New Hampshire farm. Guy initiated that approach by building the family home for his wife, Barbara, and their two sons, whom Barbara home schools. Pausing for breath after he had provided shelter for his family, Guy built two green houses for his produce business, [...]
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