378 years of family farming!!!

[RadarTech]

After 378 years, NH family farm goes up for sale - Yahoo! News

DOVER, N.H. In 1632, John Tuttle arrived from England to a settlement near the Maine-New Hampshire border, using a small land grant from King Charles I to start a farm.

Eleven generations and 378 years later, his field-weary descendants arthritic from picking fruits and vegetables and battered by competition from supermarkets and pick-it-yourself farms are selling their spread, which is among the oldest continuously operated family farms in America.



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Sad story.. but a great testiment....


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[VABlue]

It is a sad story, I saw it yesterday morning. Too bad the guys kids appear to want nothing to do with it. You'd think they'd at least want to find a way to keep it in the family. That kind of history and heritage just thrown away... Sad.

 

[1950T]

it is sad. im bound and determined to keep this peice of dirt that my forefathers settled upon ariving to this land from ireland and germany many many years ago. i may go broke doing so but i will keep it in this family.

 

[sweettractors]

it is sad. im bound and determined to keep this peice of dirt that my forefathers settled upon ariving to this land from ireland and germany many many years ago. i may go broke doing so but i will keep it in this family.

I wish there were more farmers that thought like you. Ken Sweet

 

[1950T]

ken most farmers in this part of the nor'east are taking bigbrothers bribe to quit farming. while most are selling i keep leasing more land every year for crop rotation. im not giving up yet and as long as farming keeps paying for its self ill keep doing it. would be nice if we got a higher price per 100weight for milk tho.it keeps going up and up in the stores and we the farmers keep getting less and less each month

 

[riptides]

I had a local farmer stop by this w/e and introduce himself. Somewhere the conversation turned to history. And then maintaining a living.

He said of his three boys:
1 works for the county.
1 works for a large corporation.
And one wants to carry on farming. When he told his son, "you'll work twice as long as your brothers, for half as much", his son replied "I know".

 

[Wacky]

This will likely be bought up by "factory farms" and create more competition for the local farmer to drive them out of business and harder to make a buck.

 

[brin]

To bad the children, now grown, did not want to add a Restaurant to it and or mail order from the oldest farm in the US...So many possibilities but they must have other goals...Like the man said he can't plan the future for his kids.

 

[sweettractors]

ken most farmers in this part of the nor'east are taking bigbrothers bribe to quit farming. while most are selling i keep leasing more land every year for crop rotation. im not giving up yet and as long as farming keeps paying for its self ill keep doing it. would be nice if we got a higher price per 100weight for milk tho.it keeps going up and up in the stores and we the farmers keep getting less and less each month

Hang in there, People like you are what built this country. It is a shame milk prices are not $30 per hundred, where you could make a little profit. I think there is some sort of conspiracy on the price fixing of milk paid to the farmer. In addition, it is way over due for a investigation into the matter by the federal guys. Ken Sweet

 

[jimmyj]

I hate to see the family farm legacies dying! It's awful. All the same who could turn down over 3 million $?

BTW, good for you Micheal, keep on my man! Nice avatar too!