About

Mack Hill Farm is located in Marlow, in southwest New Hampshire. 320 of our 343 acres are under a conservation easement.  We are building the remainder into a self supporting farm. The image used at the top of the page is a shot that Frank took in the summer of 2004. I submitted it to a People, Places, Plants photo contest and we won, in the “place” category that year.

Currently we have a small flock of registered Icelandic sheep, two Percheron horses, Prince and Pearl, Ella Mae, an American Milking Devon cow, and her calf Danny, a small herd of Tamworth swine, and chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese.

We raise a continually expanding garden, keep bees, make maple syrup and forage for mushrooms in our woods.

We are now clearly past the point of feeding ourselves and are beginning to sell farm products as we have them.

The journal dates back to 2000 and reflects a gradual change from ‘pretty’ gardening to trying to be a paying farm. Older images were stored locally in a Gallery II installation which is now unfortunately down, newer ones are hosted on Flickr.

As the mood strikes we’re cataloging our book collection on LibraryThing. It’s fun comparing our tags and collections with those of others, and the shelving information alone is worth the $25 lifetime membership.