North Family Farm

North Family Farm North Family Farm is named after the North family of the Canterbury Shakers who settled here in 1792. Since 1950, we have been a family-owned business.

02/24/2022

Blowing maple leaves in February? It was a sunny warm ish very windy day in the maple orchard🤔🙂

02/23/2022

Concentrated maple sap slush.
We are refrigerating the maple sap after it has been concentrated by the Reverse Osmosis machine. The cold preserves the freshness so we can wait to boil it into syrup. This makes more efficient use of our firewood and our time.

02/20/2022

Maple sap coming from the sugar maple tree. This “first run” is three weeks earlier than last year.

02/10/2022

Another sugar season begins. Can’t wait for that “first run” syrup. Yum!

Filling another Cold Garden Distillery bourbon barrel with our hot maple syrup. Our bourbon barrel syrup will be back is...
11/23/2021

Filling another Cold Garden Distillery bourbon barrel with our hot maple syrup. Our bourbon barrel syrup will be back is stock soon!

09/15/2021

Sugar season is not that far away. We are getting ready for it now. We’ll show you how. Come for a farm tour of our certified organic maple production system. See how we make our maple products from the trees to your table. Saturday September 18th from 2:00 to 4:00. Register for the tour at www.nofanh.org/craft

Our sugar house was built in 1975 for 500taps. We have grown to 2,500 taps. The sugar house has been remodeled several ...
09/07/2021

Our sugar house was built in 1975 for 500taps. We have grown to 2,500 taps. The sugar house has been remodeled several times since then. This summer we tank crazy. We installed three new (used) stainless tanks. An 1800 gallon sap tank. No more over flowing tanks (we hope). A 1,000 gallon refrigerated concentrated sap tank. Now we can keep concentrated sap cold so we can boil it into syrup once a week instead of nearly every day. A 5,000 gallon water tank so we won’t run out of wash water.
Join us for a “Craft of Farming” tour of our sustainable certified organic maple syrup operation. Register here: www.nofanh.org/craft. If you can’t make the tour visit us online at: northfamilyfarm.com

Address

341 Shaker Road
Canterbury, NH
03224

Opening Hours

Monday 7am - 4pm
Tuesday 7am - 4pm
Wednesday 7am - 4pm
Thursday 7am - 4pm
Friday 7am - 4pm
Saturday 7am - 4pm
Sunday 7am - 4pm

Telephone

(603) 783-4712

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About North Family Farm

This is a painting by artist Roger Gagne of the Canterbury Shakers North Family as it was in the late eighteen hundreds. The Shakers are a religious sect based on the teachings of their founder Ann Lee. They are also an experiment in communal living, attempting to create “heaven on earth” away from the influence of the “outside world. There were Shaker communities scattered around the eastern United States including one here in Canterbury, NH. The sole remaining active community is at Sabbathday Lake, Maine. During the early nineteen hundreds, the numbers of Shakers declined and many of the villages were closed and the property sold. In1950 our family purchased a portion of the Canterbury Shaker Village. The remaining portion of the Canterbury Shaker Village, including most of its original buildings, is now a museum. It is definitely worth a visit in person or on line at Canterbury Shaker Village.

The photo below is of our North Family Farm as it looks today. Most of the buildings and all of the Canterbury Shakers are now gone, yet we remain linked to them through our memories and traces of their lifetimes of work and worship here on this land.

Our family operated a dairy farm here from 1950 to 1959, then ran Horizon’s Edge School until 1974 when the school moved to its own campus, and the current generation of farming here began. Since 1974, we have operated a diverse series of farm enterprises including a small retail Jersey dairy, breeding and training Percheron draft horses, growing organic vegetables, growing various grain crops, and milling lumber. Currently our crops are hay, firewood, timber, and maple products. The photo below shows us from left to right, Tim Meeh, Daimon Meeh, Gemini Meeh and Jill McCullough as we are awarded New Hampshire’s 2011 Outstanding Tree Farm for 50 years of sustainable timber management on our woodlot.