Farm and Crop Description
We are the 2nd generation of Warrens to sustainably farm this land since 1946. Our mission is to grow food, great food, and educate and inspire you about our responsibility towards the earth, farming, land conservation concerns and living simply. There is a saying; "You must give it away to keep it" and whenever we have conversations with customers we in turn come away inspired and educated. In 1989 the first generation of Warren's placed a permanent conservation easement on the 244 acre farm thru the Land Conservation Investment Program. This conservation easement protects the land from development in a time when huge tracts of prime farm land are being planted into a final crop of strip malls, houses and highways.
We will open our season with fresh cut asparagus midMay into early June. Our major crops include fresh picked strawberries, PYO raspberries, and cut your own Christmas trees. Also available for "pick your own" are Sugar Snap peas, Chinese pea pods, flowers, PYO tomatoes from our huge tomato patch with numerous varieties. We also plant a late green tomato patch for all those great green relishes and other recipes. Our farmstand is stocked daily with vegetables picked from our fields including lettuces, spinach, swiss chard, carrots, beets, garlic, onions, kale, broccoli, squashes, cukes, peppers and sweet corn etc. Our mission is to have you involved as much as possible in your food production as is sensible, especially children. We believe this involvement nurtures a connection to fresh local food and important concerns of the times such as land conservation and sustainable agricultural practices.
We always have a recording on the farm phone that fills you in on what is available: 868-2001 call anytime.
We also sell our own line of herbal soaps. Why should you purchase our soaps when there are so many other soapmakers with a good product. I can give you several reasons: Every time you purchase our soap you become in partnership with our goal of continuing to keep this farm a fulltime working NH farm. Our situation is a rarity. Most farms have some sort of outside income to fall back on when crops fail or weather throws a nasty curve ball. We don't, however we do have our soap which we can sell all year to you or anyone in the USA via our ecommerce pages. We begin each custom batch of soap with herbal infusions using our mineral rich, chlorine free well water and vegetable/nut oils. This important step is lost in most soapmaking enterprises as it adds time and cost, however we believe the benefits to our skin make it worthwhile. As we stir the soap we add pure essential oils, organic herbs and superfatting oils and butters that add an extra bit of luxury. This combination results in a bar of soap that is by far the best care you can give your skin. These are our reasons why you should purchase our soap and I hope they convince you.
The weekend before Thanksgiving our 53nd year for Cut Your Own Christmas trees will begin. Be sure to put your order in early for one of Randy's handmade christmas wreaths. During the season he cuts evergreen boughs daily and assembles various types of beautiful blue spruce, fir balsam, white pine, concolor fir and mixed fir wreaths.We decorate some and leave many undecorated.
News and Blog
Is Earl going to bring us some rain?
Posted by Heather Warren :: Friday, September 3 :: 10:13am
Today, Friday September 3rd, is a lot less hot than the past week! We wouldn't mind some rain from hurricane Earl tonight either. We have strawberries, sugar snaps, tomatoes (heirlooms too), summer squash, zucchini, pickling cukes (which are the best for salads), onions, garlic, pints of potatoes and five pound bags of red-white-yukon gold potatoes (all potatoes from Root Cellar Farm in Northwood) sunflowers, bouquets, dried flowers, glycerin soaps and handmade herbal infusion vegan and goatsmilk soaps.
I sold out of strawberries and sugar snap peas at the Northwood farmers market yesterday. Many folks thought it highly unusual to find NH strawberries in September and I had a lot of explaining to do about these day neutral varieties. I really enjoy talking about our crops and watching people's faces when they taste these sweet berries. Strawberry shortcake in September sounds good to me!
There is still plenty of tomatoes in the "pick your own" patch. Don't wait too long if you plan on freezing, canning or making up some fresh sauce and then freezing it. At some point the tomato patch will begin to degrade. We still have two other field patches of tomatoes that we hope will be for late fall green/perhaps red tomato pickers.