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The start of Sweetpeas Farm

We are the Gilberts. My husband and I went to school together in Guilford. We didn’t really know each other till I was a Junior and he was a Senior. We finally got to know each other while we were in the senior play that year. We played husband and wife in the production of The Mask of Zorro. 2 weeks after the play we started dating, 1 year and 3 months later we were married and have been now for 18+ happy years. In those 18+ years we have had 3 amazing boys, 16, 12, and 7.

Growing up I had the pleasure of going across the road to my grandparents to be watched daily on their farm. (This farm is the one across from the little red school house at the 4 corners in Abbot) This started my love of farming. My husband Skyler grew up raising his own chickens and his family had cows for many years so he also had a lot of history with farming.

So for years I have begged to have a farm but where we lived it would not work. I finally wore my husband down to let us get chickens. To my amazement he fell in love with the idea of farming too. (Why couldn’t I have convinced him sooner?!) Since then its been a dream of ours to start our own self sufficient farm. So we started with a small backyard flock and put our house up for sale.

A year later we sold our house in Brownville and bought our new 130 year old farmhouse in Charleston where we hope to achieve these dreams. We still have a long ways to go. Due to the tremendous responsibility of getting into our new house we have had to put off for yet another year opening our poultry processing business but we hope to open in the spring of 2020. We are hoping for a lot of new development in our farm in the year to come. We want to expand into new animals, plant more fruit and maple trees and fruits bushes that not only will supply our 3 boys with tons of delicious treats for the summer but supply me with the necessary fruits for my canning needs. Bees are also something we are hoping try our hand at in the future. Till we do all this we will continue canning from our garden, processing what we can from our orchard, stocking up from what we hunt and forage before winter comes.

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