![]() Most of their land is managed forest only six acres are planted with grain.Ībbie White researched and found in the 1840 Agricultural Census of Massachusetts that the state produced almost 5,000 tons of wheat that year. They also harvest plums, pears and pawpaws from a handful of fruit trees. As farmers in Central Massachusetts did more than 200 years ago, the Whites grow wheat and rye. Stan and Abbie White began farming and raising their two sons on this beautiful site 31 years ago, but the land has been cultivated since the 1700s. The deck outside the kitchen beholds a vista of rolling green fields and the hills of the Quabbin Reservoir and beyond. Just beyond this year’s wheat field stands the Whites’ farmhouse, a post-and-beam construction by a local builder. ![]() On the right stretches a field where, earlier this summer, three and half acres of golden Redeemer wheat stalks shimmered in the breezy sunshine. ![]() The farm is on a long, narrow road bordered by ancient oak trees and 300-year-old stone walls. The town itself was incorporated in 1732 the annual Hardwick Community Fair, held in late August for the past 259 years, is the oldest agricultural fair in the country. A visit to Whitesfields Farm in Hardwick is very nearly a trip back in time.
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