2020 Monadnock Farm Fund

We’re happy to announce that we have been chosen as a recipient of the 2020 Monadnock Coop’s Farm Fund. These funds are available through the generosity of the Monadnock Co-Op and the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. With these funds we will be expanding our potato and onion production. We’ve purchased a potato planter and potato digger that will enable us to increase our production and efficiency. We’re anxiously awaiting the arrival of 1,100 pounds of seed potatoes from Fedco Seeds. After much research and debate, we settled on a style of digger which (although more expensive) will enable us to dig delicate new potatoes as well as onions without damaging them. 2019 was our first large-scale attempt at potatoes, and we successfully raised over 9,000 pounds of potatoes. Potatoes are a crop that was once grown in large quantity in Walpole, and we are happy to bring that tradition back (in a small way). This year’s order is a mix of organic and conventional seed, with many varieties chosen so that we can see what will grow best for us. We’re looking forward to selling to nearby schools and restaurants, in addition to providing our customers at the farmstand with plenty of potatoes from July through November.

We’re so grateful to the Co-Op and it’s supporters, who believe in the value of local agriculture. I’ll be posting lots of photos and videos of this equipment “in action”!