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COUNTRY GARDENS // FA LL 2019
WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY TOVAH MARTIN
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KINDRA CLINEFF
grown
from
scratch
Prompted by the lack of quality
produce available in rural New
Hampshire, an adventurous couple
break free, go off the grid, and
grow it themselves.
WHAT TO
PLANT FIRST
“As soon as the ground can
be worked, we start planting
the peas,” Bill Elliott says.
Rather than confi ning their
peas to a fi xed area, Bill and his
wife, Eileen, have a movable
fence (they use deer fencing) to
give the crop a fresh location
each year in their succession
plan. Because peas prefer cool
weather, they plant early for
harvest in late June. After
the peas fi nish producing,
they remove the fence and
members of the cabbage
family take the spot.
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