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By LUKAS DUNFORD

NORTH HAVERHILL — Hatchland Farm, with a total herd size of about 560 cows, is relatively large for the region. It’s also notable for its longevity.When Hatchland Farm co-owner Howard Hatch, 79, first came to the Upper Valley 53 years ago, there were...

By JAMES M. PATTERSON

Randolph Center farmer Joe Williams, 74, sent the last of his milking herd to auction on Tuesday. Though no longer milking, he will keep 15 beef cows and continue doing field work at the farm.Williams grew up on a small family farm nearby. After...

Jazmine Lantz, of Woodstock, walks her 2-year-old rooster Presley, named after Elvis, around the farmers market on the green in Woodstock on Wednesday. “He loves the attention,” Lantz said as passersby stopped to stare at her feathered companion. 

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HARTFORD — On a gray, drizzly Wednesday morning, George Miller, his son, cousin and brother pushed, pulled and cajoled 27 reluctant Jersey cows and six heifers out of the barn and onto livestock trailers that would take the animals to their new owner...

By JAMES M. PATTERSON

Barbara Patch credits good air flow at the 1,200 foot elevation of her family’s Lebanon apple orchard with limiting the damage from a May freeze that devastated crops. The Patches saved around 50% of their fruit.The killing frost was just one example...

Lead cashier Nina Paczykowski opens The Woodstock Farmers Market for the first time in 56 days in West Woodstock on Friday after is was forced to close by the floods of July. Customers began congregating at the doors shortly before 8 a.m.Valley News...

By RAY COUTURE

CORNISH — You’d think a family that’s lived in the same house for the last two-and-a-half centuries would know how to throw a party there at the drop of a hat.But for the Fitchs, who have owned and lived on their 165-acre plot of land atop Dingleton...

By KAELI BENNETT

HARTLAND — Small farmers markets in the Upper Valley are being faced with tough decisions — do they adapt to changing times or fold? The Hartland Farmers Market and the Royalton Farmers Market have taken opposite approaches. The Hartland Farmers...

By FRANCES MIZE

WILDER — Henry Hazen’s family has owned Brookside Farm, which sits just where Dothan Brook crosses Christian Street, for seven generations. Previously a beef and vegetable operation, the farm is now used for boarding horses.From the farm’s 174-acre...

By NICOLA SMITH

On an icy gray morning, the subject at the Billings Farm & Museum learning kitchen was, appropriately, Cozy Stews and Breads, one of a series of adult classes that are part of the farm and museum’s Backyard Workshops. For Emery Gray, the chef at the...

By JIM KENYON

With 2022 wrapping up, I figure it’s time to share my wish list for the Upper Valley in 2023. Here goes: Enough with the Norwich Farm Foundation’s $1.25 million fundraising campaign to “Bring the Cows Back.” The Upper Valley already has Billings Farm...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WOODSTOCK — The town one day might see fit to change its name to Foodstock.The farm-to-fork food movement that is a growing attraction in Vermont’s travel economy is poised to get a boost in Woodstock, with an agreement reportedly in place to allow a...