New Hampshire: Let Them Eat Corn
The Native People's of New Hampshire had been growing corn long before the European settlers arrived (it is native to ... Continue reading →
View ArticleNew Hampshire’s Missing Heirloom Apples
The conversation had started off innocently enough. I purchased a scabbed and ugly, but still interesting looking apple at the Merrimack Farmer’s Market from Tom Mitchell who runs Ledge Top Farm in...
View ArticleNew Hampshire: Apples, Autumn and Heirloom Recipes
Late August to late October is the apple-picking season in New Hampshire. According to Foster’s Daily Democrat, Governor Maggie Hassan picked “the first NH apple of the season” on September 4, 2014,...
View ArticleNew Hamphire Tidbits: Miscellany of the Apple
NEW ENGLAND PIE Pie is the masterpiece of New England home cookery. In Maine they still make those deep apple pies–clove flavored, generous, ample pies that one can make a flavorous meal of. But pie...
View ArticlePopular Superstitions of the Winter Season: 1840
POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS OF THE WINTER SEASON From: Saturday, December 26, 1840; Portsmouth Journal of Literature and Politics (Portsmouth NH) page 2 Associated with Christmas and the New Year are many of...
View ArticleOfficial New Hampshire State Beverage: Apple Cider
In 2010, at the petition of fourth grade students from Jaffrey, New Hampshire and others, the New Hampshire General Court, by a vote of 230-74 approved apple cider as New Hampshire’s office beverage...
View ArticleNew Hampshire Tidbits: The Best Mother
Regular readers of my Cow Hampshire blog know I’ve written many times about New Hampshire agriculture, and in particular about heirloom apple history. With Mother’s Day just around the corner, I...
View ArticleNew Hampshire Tidbits: More Ghostly and Mystical Halloween Traditions
“The following extract from an English book of antiquities and popular customs, gives a very interesting account of the ancient manner of celebrating the day or rather night. The celebration of the day...
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