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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“Harry is our valet, meeter and greeter,” says Chris Balch, when a guest enters the family’s farm house kitchen. Harry is a Burmese dog, weighing in at about 85 pounds pounds. “We even had a customer who made a red vest and bow-tie for him.” Chris and her husband Bruce moved into the Chris’s family homestead [...]
Apple Haven Farm, Colebrook, NH
Unless you take a long hard look, Apple Haven Farm seems bereft of its namesake apples. But off Piper Hill Road in Colebrook, the current owner Patti Craig found between the volunteer evergreens an overgrown orchard, desolate and long abandoned, but the month was May and the trees were in full [...]
Two Mountain Farm, Andover NH
Farming has its challenges and rewards. Consider such enticements as breath-taking scenery and working in the open-air; cultivating and improving the soil; and watching seeds morph into immature plants before they turn into productive ones. Heady stuff, indeed. As Katherine “Kat” Darling of Two Mountain Farm in Andover frames it, “Farming [...]
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 [...]
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