Founded by a handful of concerned citizens in 1901, the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests is one of the country's most effective statewide land conservation organizations.
There’s no better place to get into the holiday spirit than on Christmas Lane, home of the Forest Society’s The Rocks’ Christmas Tree Farm. The Rocks opens for cut-your-own trees November 23 to December 15, open daily from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. (closed Thanksgiving Day). Holiday cheer is alive this season with cut-your-own trees, retail trees, wreaths, maple syrup, horse-drawn wagon rides, visits from Green Father Christmas, and a fire pit to warm your toes. Click here to plan your visit The Rocks.
Check out our latest project in Lee, NH. Tuckaway Farm has excellent agricultural soils, plus crazy good wildlife habitat thanks to enhanced 4,000 feet of frontage on the Oyster River—-which is also a drinking water source for the city of Durham and the University of New Hampshire. What’s not to like?
There’s just something about the rural November landscape that whispers. It conveys a feeling of antiquity, a kind of sepia-toned memory as if the land itself remembers and projects a younger self-portrait; a time well before we called them “selfies.”
At an October conference in Concord, the future of wood as a desirable structural framework for construction of large commercial buildings was presented as an ec
