2025 Monadnock Grown Farm Tour

Saturday, August 16, 2025

12PM - 5PM

Visit all farms for $10/per car!

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.

NEW! 2025 Monadnock Grown Farm Tour t-shirt featuring logo submitted by Cheshire County 4-H member, Penelope Bridges (pictured, below) is available to purchase online from
July 31 - August 17th

The winning logo for our first ever Monadnock Grown Farm Tour tee-shirt was designed by 4-H Sunbeam Club member, Penelope Bridges! Congratulations, Penelope! The Farm Tour tee shirt is available to order online from Bulldog Designs starting on July 31 - August 16th!

Participating farms:

Alyson’s Orchard, Walpole: Alyson’s Orchard is a unique, 350 acre working orchard and year-round wedding and event facility in the heart of historic New England. Known for sustainable Eco-Apple practices and integrated pest management.
Chosen as one of the 12 Top Orchards in the U.S. by Travel and Leisure, Alyson’s has also been featured in Yankee Magazine, New Hampshire Bride Magazine, and Well Wed in Maine and New Hampshire.
Farm Tour Activities: Friendly farm, PYO apples, playground, delicious fruit pies for sale!
For sale: Farm store - pies, cider donuts

Bending Branch Farm, Marlborough: Small-batch artisanal dairy using Alpine goats grazing on pesticide-free scrub. Produces
raw milk, yogurt, chevre (in multiple flavors), and cow’s milk cheese. Made with milk sourced from local organic dairies.
Farm Tour Activities: Goat Cheese and Milk Tasting, Goat Petting
For sale: Goat milk and cheese

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.
Farm Tour Activities: Pet a miniature cow and horse, Morgan horse, alpacas and wicked friendly cats. Sugar house set up for demonstrations and samples ( syrup, nuts,cream , cotton candy). Christmas wreath making demonstration
For sale: Farm store - maple and alpaca products (sweaters, gloves, toys & more)

Draft Gratitude, Winchester: Draft horse rescue.
Farm Tour Activities: Meet the horses, hear their stories, and see firsthand how your support gives them a safe retirement.
For sale: Tack, trinkets, and treasures at their store, Barnfinds.

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.
Farm Tour Activities: Furry Friends 4-H club share their experience with horse and rabbit husbandry. Water for sale.
For sale: Puddings, water

Gemmo Forest, Keene: The Gemmo Forest is a 12.5-acre permaculture laboratory featuring medicinal plants, scavenger hunts, children’s art, and guided tours through the farm.
Farm Tour Activities: Scavenger Hunt and children’s art activity, tours of permaculture gardens.
For sale: Packaged Organic Tulsi Mint Tea

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.
Farm Tour Activities: Tour the new barn, farm store and visit the site of a new permaculture orchard and pollinator garden. Make and take crafts, scavenger hunt.
For sale: Eggs, baked goods, frozen whole broiler chickens, veggies, t-shirts, angora fiber, herbs, plants, knit toys and much more!

Mill Hollow Works, The Craft School, Keene: Craft school teaching artisan skills in a hands-on setting. Greenhouse tours, seed starting, and plants.
For sale: Snacks, produce

Monadnock Berries, Troy: PYO berries at this 11,000 bush farm with stunning view of Mt. Monadnock. CLOSES AT 3:30PM.
Farm Tour Activities: Informational posters on how to grow berries, recipes, and fun facts. Mon Berries colorin gpages. Find the biggest blueberry of the day or guess how many are in a jar to win prize!
For sale: Farm store with pre-picked berries, sweet treats, adorable gifts, and locally made products.

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!
Farm Activities: Honey tasting, garden tour & bee house tour
For sale: Honey!

Well-Seeded Gardens, Keene, 180 HURRICANE RD., KEENE. PARK AT MILL HOLLOW WORKS. Tours of the no-till family and first year market garden of culinary aromatics. This urban micro-farm boasts 7000 square feet of space with 88 garden beds.
Farm Activities: Demonstrations of companion planting, intercropping, and fruit tree guilds.
For sale: Iced Organic Herbal Tea, fresh herbs, herbed salts and calendula salve

SUGGESTED STOPS (Of course, start closest to you)
1. Keene: Combine Well-Seeded Farms, Mill Hollow Works, and Gemmo Forest into one stop! They’re all located very close to each other on Hurricane Road.

2. Surry: Goodwin Family Farm + Crescendo Acres - both in near Keene! Go on to Alyson’s Orchard in Walpole!

3. Troy/Winchester/Hinsdale: Stop at Monadnock Berries (closes at 3:30pm) and then on to Echo Farm Puddings and Draft Gratitude!

4. Marlborough/ Harrisville: Bending Branch Farm, Slovenian Beekeeping

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