Back when @tracy.hayhurst was working on her own farm, she would often pause to admire a particularly striking blue sky or take pleasure in the basket of fresh vegetables she had just harvested. “How many people get to have this kind of experience?” she pondered.
So, after she became the culinary director at @huskymeadowsfarm in Norfolk, she started @seedandspoon, a program of weekend farm stays and food events that are based on seasonally and locally grown ingredients. Visitors to @huskymeadowsfarm take a deep dive into sustainable agriculture by learning about native plants, harvesting organic vegetables and herbs from the farm’s two-acre garden, and using them to prepare imaginative dinners. It’s hardly the life of a hardscrabble farmer. At the end of the day, guests unwind in one of the farm’s five well-appointed suites, one of which is a renovated chicken coop.
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By @wendycarlson
📸 @newenglandfoodandfarm
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Mar 22
The official Rafa Nadal Academy will be running camps across New England this summer to offer the same high performance tennis methodology and training used at the highly successful official Rafa Nadal Academy in Mallorca, Spain. Juniors and adults work with coaches from the Rafa Nadal Academy with both on and off court training. The camp appeals to a range of players and offers a total tennis experience not available anywhere else. Connecticut camps take place at the Hotchkiss and Loomis Chaffee schools. This is the ultimate tennis camp and an opportunity that you don’t want to miss. Vamos!
Visit: athena.rafanadalacademycamps.com
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Mar 21
In 1975, Litchfield native Ralph White, serving as a junior executive at the Bangkok branch of Chase Bank, was summoned to Saigon to take on a mission no one wanted to fulfill. Saigon was falling to the North Vietnamese and Chase needed someone to evacuate their employees out of the country. Young, single, and expendable, the 27-year-old didn’t hesitate. His new book, Getting Out of Saigon, to be released in April, recounts the riveting narrative.
“I was an ordinary guy faced with extraordinary circumstances who rose to the occasion,” White says.
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By @nancymcmillanwriter
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Mar 19
Eliot Johnson is an award-winning builder who appreciates preserving his family’s farm. “It’s always been a big part of my life. Farming is my hobby,” says Johnson, owner of @westmountainbuilders and Far Fields Farm in Washington.
Although Johnson’s grandfather retired before he was born, his grandson experienced farm life. “Every summer, my cousins, the Potters, would run their heifers down Nettleton Hollow Road from their farm on Sunny Ridge Road to graze here. I was always drawn to farming, so as a kid, it was an exciting day when the animals arrived for the season or when the Potters clattered down the road in June with their tractors to make first-cutting hay,” Johnson reminisces.
“My great-grandfather Walter Lathrop Senior, a banker, helped buy this property on West Mountain Road for my grandfather in 1941. He ran an award-winning dairy farm here until 1973,” explains Johnson who grew up on the property and is raising his three sons in the same house, with his wife. They raise a small herd of cattle and make square hay bales for retail sale on part of the family’s original land. In 2020 @steeprockassociation purchased land across the street from Eliot’s dad and his sisters, and now it’s the Johnson Farm Preserve, Steep Rock’s smallest nature preserve.
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By Pamela Brown @pam.lena
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Mar 16
Driving through the town of Litchfield presents a masterclass in historic American architecture. Wonderfully preserved and restored homes dating back to the 1700s and 1800s line the streets, exemplifying magnificent Colonial and Federal architectural styles. But the façades of these homes are not always reflective of the interiors within.
One example of this architectural contrast is a Federal style house built in 1807 on South Street. The white clapboard siding exterior features symmetrical windows and grand chimneys. The inside, on the other hand, is current, modern, and aesthetically more Brooklyn than Litchfield.
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By Zachary Schwartz
📸 @johnrgruen
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