The Dorr Family Farm

Today I'm talking with Amy and James at The Dorr Family Farm.

 

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00:00 You're listening to A Tiny Homestead, podcast comprised entirely of conversations with homesteaders, cottage food producers, and crafters and topics adjacent. I'm your host, Mary Lewis. Today I'm talking with Amy at Dorr Family Farm in Whitefield, New Hampshire.  Good evening, Amy.  Again, I'm all confused on time. Sorry.  How are you?  I'm good. How are you? I'm good. You said your husband is there and I of course blanked his name already. Yeah, have James, my husband James with me.

00:29 James is with us too. So we have a couple to talk to tonight.  Have you guys been getting a ton of rain? Yeah, way too much.  Today too?  A little bit. Okay. All right.  My folks live in Maine and they have done nothing but  tell me how much rain they have gotten this spring. So I assumed  with you being in New Hampshire that it would be the same thing. Yeah, it's been, the ground is really wet.

00:58 We still have the remnants of vernal pools that are usually not still present this time of year.  A little bit. Trying to get into it a little more. Well, this year must be hard because it's taken my dad 10 plus years to put in  this garden this year. That's how it feels anyway.  Okay, so I looked at your Facebook page and Door Family Farm has been around for a long time.

01:28 So tell me about yourself and what you guys do. So yeah, this place has been here for a really long time. We've been here 13 years. So the farm has been in my husband's family for now eight generations. And it started out in the 1800s. My husband's, let's see, great.

01:57 Great. Many greats. Many great. Grandfather settled here from Canada and just started like a small, he was alone and he had a little shack and he just, you know, worked the land and the house that stands today was built in the 1800s as well as the barn. And we just kind of ended up here. It wasn't in the plans.

02:28 That happens. hear that a lot. Yeah. Are you from New Hampshire? Well, I was born in Massachusetts, but I lived in New Hampshire most of my life. Moved here when I was about five years old. Okay. I'm just not picking up on any New England accent at all. And I was like, maybe she didn't grow up in New Hampshire, but okay.

02:54 Okay, so what do you guys do at the farm? It's a farm, so I'm assuming it supports itself? Well, it definitely doesn't support itself. Oh, no. No. So we hold full-time jobs. I'm a nurse and James is an independent IT consultant. The farm once did support itself. It has gone...

03:22 through many different changes over the years.  At one point it was a strawberry farm  and at another point it was a potato farm.  Before that it was a dairy farm.  So it's always been a farm of some sort.  And when we came here, it was not in the plans and we sort of ended up here  through happenstance. The house

03:52 has been in the family for generations and it  was about to be sold.  We didn't want that to happen, so we bought it.  We moved here with no plan.  We've consistently  raised chickens the entire time we've been here. That's been the constant. At  one time, this place  provided