Tom Hanson talks Hansons Farm
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Hanson's Farm has been a working farm since 1715, farmed for almost 200 years. In 1908, Matthew Hanson got the opportunity to rent the fifty acre farm and loved it,...
show moreTo bring families to the farm, diversifying has helped to keep the farm going and such things as a horse boarding business, a haunted hayride, and starting in 2005, Tom with his son Matt started doing a cornmaze. The same year, Tom 19s wife Martha started doing farmers markets and that has grown to a big part of thir farming operations.
In 2009 they started a CSA - or community supported agriculture where people buy a "share" of the harvest in advance of the season. Each year the CSA is expanding and they are learning new ways to make it run more smoothly.
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