About Us:

In 1999, Tracie Loock started growing vegetables in Sullivan on her father’s land while studying Environmental Horticulture at UNH to get hands on experience. Over nine years she grew experience, customers, knowledge, equipment, credit, and infrastructure. In November of 2007 she found a land opportunity in Fitzwilliam. Fitzwilliam Green was looking for a farmer to buy 33 acres of land they wanted to keep in farming by putting a Conservation Easement on it since the land was classified as Becket Fine Sandy Loam, which is prime agricultural soil, rare in NH and especially not being on the river valley. She worked with Fitzwilliam Green and the Monadnock Conservancy to put together an easement that would work for everyone.

With the help of family and friends all of the farms supplies, greenhouses, and perennials where moved to Fitzwilliam within a week of signing a purchase and sale agreement. The land was prepared for the following season, the greenhouses were erected and we began to harvest pines on the property where the barn was to be built. The pines were milled onsite and the barn was built throughout the winter and spring in preparation for our 210 member CSA starting in mid June. The incredible amount of work it took to move the farm to a new location was worth it. 2008 was a great season and the new location proved to have a supportive community.

Since then we’ve continued to feed more families, through more seasons vegetables, herbs, and fruits grown with love and without the use of pesticides or chemicals. We use row covers to prevent pests and increase warmth, crop rotations to disturb pest and disease cycles as well as balance nutrient uses, cover crops to prevent soil erosion, capture nutrients, and harvest nutrients and organic matter, and compost and other organic fertilizers to feed our soil not only nutrients but life. The diversity of plants we grow helps us prevent pest populations from building up as well as not depend on just a few crops and feel the need to spray when problems do arise.