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Family Lunch At fourth-generation Laurelbrook Farm, family lunch is as much a part of the daily routine as milking times. Even after patriarch Robert Jacquier passed away a few years ago, his wife Dottie has continued to cook for all...

Brotherly Love There’s no mistaking that Tim and Steve Kayhart are brothers with their similar builds, smiles and almost-matching beards. Like many siblings, the Kayharts admit they didn’t always get along when they were younger. But after returning as adults to the West Addison,...

Coming Home The value of staying on his family’s seventh generation farm has grown gradually on James Hutchins. While he had always enjoyed doing farm chores, James decided he wanted to try something else and left home to study heating and plumbing....

“In our blood” Farming goes back to at least the early 1800’s for the Tetreaults, now in their third century of making a living off the land. “It’s in our blood,” says Dale who, with his brothers Dan and Done, took on...

Cultivating Family With 11 grown kids and 19 grandkids (so far) between the three Hanehan brothers and their wives, “We always say the best crop we’ve ever grown is our children,” says Cliff Hanehan, the youngest of the trio who...

Old History, New Technology Welcoming visitors was part of the deal for the Duffy family when they took on the challenge of re-starting a dairy in the 1,000-acre Great Brook Farm state park 22 miles outside of Boston. Agriculture has...

A True Calling In 2009, an unspoken connection called Danielle Goodrich and her brother Chase back home to their family farm. Chase had just received his bachelor’s degree in accounting from Salve Regina University, and Danielle her associate degree in...

Starting Over A few years ago, the Giroux family’s community pulled together to help after the complete loss of their 1940s barn to fire. Todd Giroux runs the farm with the support of his parents, Joe and Carolyn, and his wife, Vicki. At a time like that, “There’s...

Bringing Home the Gold Brothers Bill and Neil Peck grew up on their family’s farm just 10 miles from the famous Saratoga horse racing track where Pecks have farmed since 1836. But it was another type of racing champion that has made a...

Deep Commitment, Deep Roots To understand the commitment some farmers feel to their heritage, it helps to know their history. “Our farm has been in our family since it was originally deeded by the King of England,” says Tim Young, with...

Not every Cabot dairy farmer actually owns a farm, or even a cow. In fact, some aren’t even farmers. One such example is CREAM, standing for Cooperative for Real Education in Agricultural Management, an original and innovative concept within the University...

Richard and Melissa Skoda own Triple Creek Farm in Craryville, New York, and it’s a family affair. Richard has lived on this land all his life, and the farm has been in the family for four generations. Richard and Melissa’s...