When asked about the farm name, “Still Seeking,” Michelle Descoteaux responded “I’m done now. I have spent many years trying to figure out what to do with my life.” In 2003, this paralegal and her husband, Keith, a Walmart distribution professional, began farming as “test professions” on three acres of land in Pittsfield, New Hampshire. [...]
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Taylor Brothers Sugarhouse & Creamery got its start in the 1970s when Jim, Bill, and Rob Taylor were youngsters working on their family’s dairy farm. For fun, they tapped some maple trees in the neighborhood, borrowed an old canning pot from their mother, built an arch of concrete blocks and went into the syrup business.
Gradually [...]
“New Hampshire Farm of Distinction” is the term that New Hampshire’s Department of Agriculture, Markets, & Food reserves for farms which are “pleasing in appearance.” And although Alice and Earl Tuson, owners of Loudon’s Red Manse Farm, report that “we are not there yet,” this energetic young couple is well on their way to returning [...]
As with most farm families, the kitchen is where the action is. One winter morning at the Robie Farm, as members of the family completed their first-of-the-morning chores, each came in to fix breakfast. Freeman, the eldest son of Betty Sue and Lee, after completing what he called his “grunt work,” set two Robie farm-fresh eggs [...]
Husband and father, David Lewis’s joy was raising Border Collies and the herding competitions that followed; wife and mother, Linda’s passion was the great outdoors; daughter Kaitlin was never happier than when she was working with animals. Clearly, for the Lewis clan there was something lacking with their congested living on Massachusetts’ North Shore. And [...]
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