— Mae Beck, oil on canvas, Hardy Hill Farm c. 1997

Line drawing of a small, square-shaped wooden outdoor vent or louvered exhaust fan with a pointed roof and finial on top.

A LITTLE BIT

about the farm

The deed reads 1903. The Dawes and Dillingham families farmed these hundreds of acres through two world wars and a generation of dairy and sugaring. By the 1970s, the cows were gone and the fields were quiet - kept warm by two professors and life-long partners and a little stubbornness.

In May 2026, we re-established the property as a working flower farm and market garden. The old hayfield on the south slope is now in a dozen varieties of cut flowers. The north meadow is filling with sunflowers, cosmos, and snapdragons. The barn is still the barn. The light is still the light.

We take what’s been here a long time and try to grow something honest on top of it.

- Aujan Mehregan, Co-Owner

A black wooden barn with red double doors and small windows, surrounded by snow-covered trees and ground, with a snow-covered dirt driveway and a wooden fence on the right side, under an orange-tinted sky.