2025 Monadnock Grown Farm Tour

Saturday, August 16, 2025

12PM - 5PM

$10/car gets you into all farms!

GET OUT INTO THE COUNTRY to experience the day-to-day lives of Monadnock farmers working to get food to our tables!

The Monadnock Grown Farm Tour is one way we can celebrate the impact of farming operations on our local economy, the role they play in preserving open space, and how they contribute to our quality of life.

Monadnock Grown Farm Tour: $10 per car gets you into all farms! All proceeds go towards the costs of the 2026 MONADNOCK GROWN Farm Tour! *Products for sale at farms are not included in ticket price.

Participating farms, as of 6/23/25

Bending Branch Farm, Marlborough: High on a hill in Marlborough, the farm’s Alpine goats fresh browse (they prefer scrub and brush over pasture) and live a pesticide/chemical free life. The flavors and styles of the goat cheese produced at the farm include raw milk, yogurt, and cow's milk cheeses, made with milk sourced from local organic dairies.

Crescendo Acres, Surry: An Alpaca fiber farm nestled in the hills of Surry. Large offering of alpaca clothing - sweaters, socks, toys, and more - available to purchase in their farm shoppe. Christmas tree farm, sharpening blades for animals and home.

Draft Gratitude, Winchester: Draft horse rescue. More coming!

Echo Farm, Hinsdale: A 4-H project went crazy and turned into a dairy farm and pudding plant! Learn how their cows use a robotic milking machine without any interference from humans. Pudding samples and cases of pudding for sale, calves to pet.

Gemmo Forest, Keene: The Gemmo Forest is a 12.5-acre permaculture laboratory in Keene, New Hampshire, growing plants, trees, and shrubs for not only their medicinal benefits but also for the vitality and well-being of all who interact with it. Scavenger Hunt and children’s art activity, tours of permaculture gardens.

Goodwin Family Farm, Surry: The farm is a biodiverse, small family farm that strives to produce nutritionally dense food, luxury angora fibers, and vigorous garden plants in partnership with the land, animals, and people that live there. Meet all of the animals - giant Angora rabbits, Nigerian dwarf goats, mini ponies, chickens and ducks. Tour the new barn, farm store and visit the site of a new permaculture orchard and pollinator garden. Make and take crafts, scavenger hunt. Eggs, baked goods, frozen whole broiler chickens, veggies, t-shirts, angora fiber, herbs, plants, knit toys and much more for sale.

Mill Hollow Works, The Craft School, Keene: More coming!

Slovenian Beekeeping, Harrisville: Falling in love with both Slovenia and their method of beekeeping, Suzanne Brouillette offers classes and bee hives to budding beekeepers. Slovenian hives are for sale and more!

Well-Seeded Farm, Keene: Tours of the no till family and first year market garden of culinary aromatics. This urban micro-farm boasts 4500 square feet of space with 88 garden beds demonstrating companion planting, intercropping, and fruit tree guilds. Herbal salts for sale.

Cost, Tips, & Rules:

COST:
$10/car will get you into all the farms! All money go towards producing the 2026 MONADNOCK GROWN Farm Tour.

TIPS:
Bring cash, credit cards, and a cooler! Farms will be selling a host of products, snacks, clothing, and more! Some are cash only, others take Venmo and debit cards. The cooler is to keep your food purchases fresh.

• Plan on visiting two or three farms

• After petting animals, please take time to use hand sanitizer provided at each farm

• Wear shoes - no open-toed sandals. You have no idea what you might step in! AND farms may ask you to disinfect your shoes to prevent farm-to-farm transmission of germs

• Bring sunscreen, hats, bug spray, and water

RULES:

No pets allowed, no visiting farms after or before Tour hours, no entering farm homes.

The 2025 MONADNOCK GROWN Farm Tour is produced by the Cheshire County Farm Bureau, Cheshire County 4-H, Cheshire County Conservation District, Monadnock Farm and Community Coalition, and the Monadnock Food Co-op