WEBVTT 00:00.433 --> 00:02.966 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% (upbeat music) 00:07.066 --> 00:09.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - [Narrator] From the congestion of the Kittery Malls, 00:09.033 --> 00:11.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% take a right along Maine Route 101 Northwest 00:11.800 --> 00:15.733 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% on Wilson and Goodwin Roads to Route 236. 00:15.733 --> 00:17.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% This is farming country 00:17.233 --> 00:19.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and it has been for several centuries. 00:22.900 --> 00:24.900 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% - [Man] When I was younger there were many farms 00:24.900 --> 00:26.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% on Wilson Road and Goodwin Road. 00:28.200 --> 00:30.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Starting down at Kittery is the Pettigrew Farm. 00:30.033 --> 00:33.033 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% And then there was Nelson Pearson, 00:34.700 --> 00:38.700 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% The Johnsons, and across the street from the Johnsons 00:38.700 --> 00:41.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% was Woodland Dairy and Hy Rowan. 00:41.700 --> 00:45.300 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% He milked cows and he also processed milk. 00:45.300 --> 00:48.800 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% And then, the Moulton Farm, Larry Cashmere, 00:48.800 --> 00:50.533 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% who still operates that today. 00:51.700 --> 00:52.933 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Still has cattle there. 00:54.533 --> 00:56.866 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% And then the next one would be our own. 00:56.866 --> 00:59.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And then Schultz was milk cows. 00:59.366 --> 01:04.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Before him was Frost in there that milked. 01:04.133 --> 01:07.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% (lively harmonica music) 02:06.700 --> 02:09.100 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% - [Narrator] In 1771, Daniel Goodwin 02:09.100 --> 02:12.500 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% joined other farmers on this winding country road. 02:12.500 --> 02:16.000 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% He raised 15 children and had 91 grandchildren, 02:16.000 --> 02:18.400 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% many of whom settled along the same road that was 02:18.400 --> 02:21.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% eventually named for the many Goodwin families. 02:21.333 --> 02:23.866 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% (upbeat music) 02:30.366 --> 02:32.733 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% If you were driving here 50 years ago, 02:32.733 --> 02:35.100 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% the scenery would look much as it does today. 02:36.500 --> 02:38.233 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% During the growing season, the road is bordered 02:38.233 --> 02:41.266 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% with fields of alfalfa and corn and pastures 02:41.266 --> 02:43.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% of grass later to be cut for hay and silage. 02:43.733 --> 02:46.166 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% These crops feed dairy cows. 02:47.666 --> 02:50.200 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% 50 years ago there were eight or nine dairy farms 02:50.200 --> 02:53.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% along this eight mile stretch of winding road. 02:53.166 --> 02:55.100 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% Many of the farmhouses and some of the fields 02:55.100 --> 02:56.566 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% and a few of the barns remain. 03:01.733 --> 03:03.733 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% Now there are just two dairy farms, 03:03.733 --> 03:05.733 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% the last two in this area of Maine. 03:11.400 --> 03:13.800 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% Five generations of the Pettigrew family operated 03:13.800 --> 03:16.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% the first farm at the east end of Wilson Road. 03:22.800 --> 03:25.600 align:left position:22.5% line:77% size:67.5% The Pettigrews were self sufficient for most of their needs. 03:25.600 --> 03:27.433 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% In addition to a small dairy herd, 03:27.433 --> 03:29.800 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% the family raised barn yard animals for meat 03:29.800 --> 03:31.666 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and also had a large vegetable garden 03:31.666 --> 03:33.333 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% and a variety of fruit trees. 03:34.566 --> 03:37.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Home canned vegetables, hams, turkeys, chickens, 03:37.000 --> 03:38.566 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% sheep and root crops sustained 03:38.566 --> 03:40.566 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% the family through the winter. 03:40.566 --> 03:42.733 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Many of the long gone farms along this road 03:42.733 --> 03:44.500 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% operated in a similar fashion. 03:47.400 --> 03:49.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Willis Pettigrew was the last working farmer 03:49.633 --> 03:51.633 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% but he stopped in the 1960s. 03:51.633 --> 03:54.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Like many other farmers, Willis eventually tired 03:54.166 --> 03:56.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% of milking his cows twice a day in addition 03:56.433 --> 03:58.600 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% to working at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. 04:00.633 --> 04:03.900 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% Today, Willis' granddaughter has a dog kennel here. 04:06.900 --> 04:09.233 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Just up the road is the Pearson place, 04:09.233 --> 04:12.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% farmed most recently by Nelson Pearson, Sr., 04:12.033 --> 04:14.333 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% who died in 2008. 04:14.333 --> 04:15.966 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% He grew up on the farm and eventually 04:15.966 --> 04:17.633 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% bought it from his mother. 04:17.633 --> 04:19.233 align:left position:30% line:5% size:60% She had operated the farm herself 04:19.233 --> 04:22.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% for a number of years after her husband died. 04:22.300 --> 04:25.366 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% - My family bought the farm in 1921. 04:25.366 --> 04:30.366 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% And it had not been used as a farm 04:32.900 --> 04:37.133 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% for probably 30 years, it'd been going down hill. 04:37.133 --> 04:39.866 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% So, they end up clearing the land that was growing up 04:41.033 --> 04:45.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and bringing it up to a more modern type farm. 04:45.033 --> 04:50.033 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% My father bought the farm from his mother about 1947 04:51.466 --> 04:55.133 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% and he kept farming and modernizing 'til about '89, 04:56.300 --> 04:58.666 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% he sold the main part of the land. 04:58.666 --> 05:02.433 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% He kept a few cows into the early 90s. 05:02.433 --> 05:07.100 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% And he hayed the property up until about 2000, 2001. 05:08.933 --> 05:12.033 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% He also had worked out, 05:12.033 --> 05:14.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% he worked in the woods when he was young 05:14.133 --> 05:17.300 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% to help bring in extra money for them. 05:17.300 --> 05:20.300 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% And, my mother worked on the farm. 05:20.300 --> 05:25.300 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% She also was a delivery mail, for the post office. 05:28.200 --> 05:32.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% My father was a true animal lover, we'll say. 05:32.600 --> 05:35.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% He hated to see his cows go into slaughter. 05:35.133 --> 05:40.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% He was a non-sentimental animal lover. 05:42.366 --> 05:46.600 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% (video camera buzz drowns out man) 05:49.633 --> 05:54.633 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% - He had 38 milking cows and then he had 05:55.800 --> 06:00.100 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% young stock usually around 50 to 55 head. 06:01.600 --> 06:05.600 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% He had, I think it was about 120-some acres all together, 06:07.833 --> 06:12.500 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% some pastureland, mostly hay and corn. 06:15.266 --> 06:17.866 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% - [Narrator] Now the Pearson place is no longer a farm. 06:17.866 --> 06:20.700 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% Its barn is empty but its pastures remain productive 06:20.700 --> 06:22.633 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% as others continue to hay the fields. 06:24.966 --> 06:27.433 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% (motor hums) 06:33.200 --> 06:36.766 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% In 2010, Young Alex Tobey of South Berwick was haying, 06:36.766 --> 06:39.100 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% making large rolled bails for the current owner 06:39.100 --> 06:41.000 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% who has the fields mowed and bailed 06:41.000 --> 06:43.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and uses the hay for his cattle in North Berwick. 06:45.033 --> 06:47.466 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% (birds call) 06:49.266 --> 06:52.200 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% A half mile beyond the Pearson Farm is the Johnson Farm. 06:53.633 --> 06:56.766 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% The current Pearsons and Johnsons are related. 06:56.766 --> 06:58.600 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% Their grandmothers were friends in Sweden 06:58.600 --> 07:00.966 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% and emigrated to the United States. 07:00.966 --> 07:03.166 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% The women married Swedish men and the families 07:03.166 --> 07:05.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% first settled in Massachusetts. 07:05.366 --> 07:07.666 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% In 1921, the Pearsons bought an old 07:07.666 --> 07:09.666 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% rundown farm on Wilson Road. 07:10.833 --> 07:12.166 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% The Johnsons often visited the farm 07:12.166 --> 07:15.000 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% and their son, Chester, enjoyed helping out. 07:15.000 --> 07:16.833 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% Eventually, he studied agriculture 07:16.833 --> 07:19.333 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% at the University of Massachusetts. 07:19.333 --> 07:22.400 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% He also got to know the Pearson's daughter, Elsa. 07:22.400 --> 07:26.166 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% They married and began a farm in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. 07:26.166 --> 07:28.266 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% Chet and Elsa then bought an abandoned farm 07:28.266 --> 07:31.700 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% on Wilson Road in 1947 and built a barn. 07:33.166 --> 07:35.333 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% They raised nine children and operated award-winning 07:35.333 --> 07:39.166 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% Rustlewood Farm together, until Elsa's death in 2003. 07:40.500 --> 07:42.566 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% In an oral history interview, Chester Johnson 07:42.566 --> 07:44.433 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% recalled the beginning of that farm. 07:46.200 --> 07:48.500 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% - We moved to Maine in '47. 07:50.033 --> 07:53.700 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Well this farm was George Haye's farm, 07:53.700 --> 07:55.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and actually hadn't been farmed, 07:55.666 --> 07:57.400 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% I think he was the last one that mowed it, 07:57.400 --> 07:59.266 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% he said he hadn't mowed it for 22 years 07:59.266 --> 08:01.433 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% and I don't think it had been farmed 08:01.433 --> 08:04.000 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% for maybe like about 35 years, 08:04.000 --> 08:07.133 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% but the land was still in pretty good shape and 08:07.133 --> 08:10.333 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% Nels let me use his tractor, well in fact 08:10.333 --> 08:11.733 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% he did most of the plowing. 08:11.733 --> 08:14.400 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% Then we moved up here and Nels let me 08:14.400 --> 08:16.133 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% use the field across the road that 08:16.133 --> 08:18.800 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% was Hy Rowan's that he had used. 08:19.933 --> 08:22.100 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% That shows how farmers treat one another. 08:22.100 --> 08:24.633 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% I really appreciated that. 08:24.633 --> 08:26.466 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% He helped me build the barn and then 08:26.466 --> 08:28.400 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% he wanted all the way over to York 08:28.400 --> 08:30.400 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% and rented a field over there. 08:30.400 --> 08:33.733 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% He let me use that one field, so, 08:34.900 --> 08:37.233 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% that's the history of North Kittery 08:37.233 --> 08:38.666 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% as far as I'm concerned. 08:38.666 --> 08:41.833 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% We moved up with three kids and wound up with nine. 08:41.833 --> 08:44.600 align:left position:32.5% line:5% size:57.5% (crowd laughs) 08:44.600 --> 08:48.433 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% There's two still on the farm working with me now. 08:48.433 --> 08:50.500 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% I was told there were 29 dairy farms 08:50.500 --> 08:53.833 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% in the early '30s in Kittery, and now 08:54.933 --> 08:56.566 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% we're the only one left. 08:56.566 --> 08:58.566 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% - [Narrator] Today, Richard Johnson and his wife, 08:58.566 --> 09:00.800 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% Beth, operate Rustlewood Farm. 09:00.800 --> 09:03.166 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Brother David Johnson, also works on the farm 09:03.166 --> 09:05.133 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% along with several part time people 09:05.133 --> 09:08.500 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% who help with field work, milking and equipment maintenance. 09:14.000 --> 09:18.466 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% - They moved up in '47 with three kids and I think 20 cows. 09:18.466 --> 09:20.700 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% They just built a brand new barn 09:20.700 --> 09:23.966 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% before they moved all the cows up. 09:23.966 --> 09:26.500 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% (upbeat music) 09:51.466 --> 09:52.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Too many people can't say this, 09:52.500 --> 09:55.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% but I've never had another job. 09:55.000 --> 09:58.300 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% I've spent my entire life working on this farm. 09:58.300 --> 10:03.300 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% I've always enjoyed the farm, always had chores to do 10:04.333 --> 10:06.500 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% from little grasshopper all the way up. 10:07.700 --> 10:10.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% My job here in the summertime as a kid, 10:10.133 --> 10:12.233 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% I used to let the cows out there. 10:12.233 --> 10:14.800 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% They used go out to pasture day and night. 10:15.966 --> 10:20.233 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% We actually own 320 acres of land. 10:20.233 --> 10:23.833 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% It's not all open land, it's a lot of woods and swamps, 10:23.833 --> 10:28.833 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% got a couple ponds and streams and wetlands. 10:30.900 --> 10:33.000 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% We also rent probably another 100 acres 10:34.466 --> 10:39.300 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% and I actually have 250 acres tillable of field land 10:40.466 --> 10:42.666 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% that I actually use, crop every year, 10:42.666 --> 10:47.500 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% between corn silage and raising alfalfa and grass. 10:49.466 --> 10:52.733 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% I either make silage out of the grass 10:52.733 --> 10:54.900 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% or dry it down to make bailed hay. 10:58.833 --> 11:01.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - I remember when I was like 13, 11:01.600 --> 11:05.933 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% I started milking cows but previous, 11:07.333 --> 11:09.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I guess I would just come up here with my mom 11:09.066 --> 11:10.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and get to kind of like hang out 11:10.366 --> 11:13.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and ride my bike around, that sort of thing. 11:13.700 --> 11:17.466 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% I definitely learned what hard work is, for sure. 11:17.466 --> 11:20.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And it's just, you know, not a lot of people 11:20.466 --> 11:24.200 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% get to live on a farm and enjoy it 11:24.200 --> 11:26.433 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% and it's beautiful up here. 11:31.466 --> 11:34.533 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% - A lot of it is hands-on experience. 11:34.533 --> 11:36.466 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% I've seen about everything you could 11:36.466 --> 11:38.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% possibly see with cows. 11:38.700 --> 11:40.566 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% I have a veterinary that comes in, 11:40.566 --> 11:44.366 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% does preg checks with an ultrasound. 11:44.366 --> 11:47.366 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% He can detect a pregnancy at 28 days. 11:47.366 --> 11:51.200 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% Other than that, I do all the health work of the cows. 11:51.200 --> 11:55.466 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% I vaccinate 'em, I dehorn em, I hoof trim em. 11:55.466 --> 11:57.700 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% Whatever it takes to kind of keep them healthy. 11:57.700 --> 12:02.633 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% We feed them a balanced diet of corn, hay and grain. 12:04.000 --> 12:07.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% We grow about 60 acres off corn, probably another 60 acres 12:08.700 --> 12:10.466 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% of alfalfa and the remainder of it 12:10.466 --> 12:15.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% is grass that we use to chop up and make silage. 12:17.600 --> 12:21.633 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Anything that we chop we store in Ag-Bags, 12:21.633 --> 12:24.100 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% they call 'em, they look like a great big 12:24.100 --> 12:26.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% white caterpillar, as my youngest boy would say. 12:27.666 --> 12:31.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And, the bags are 200 feet long, 12:31.133 --> 12:33.133 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% they're nine feet in diameter and 12:33.133 --> 12:34.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% they're folded like an accordion 12:34.933 --> 12:37.600 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and the machine that have will actually 12:37.600 --> 12:40.433 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% pack it right into the bag and push 12:40.433 --> 12:43.500 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% the machine ahead as it's packing it. 12:43.500 --> 12:46.200 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% And it basically packs it to keep the air 12:46.200 --> 12:49.100 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% out of it, to keep an air tight seal 12:49.100 --> 12:52.600 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% and it stays good for quite a while 12:52.600 --> 12:56.500 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% until there's a hole pole poked into the Ag-Bags from, 12:56.500 --> 12:58.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% crows are the biggest problems. 12:58.833 --> 13:02.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Crows with corn silage, they're buggers. 13:03.500 --> 13:07.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% The corn is a real good energy source for cows. 13:07.533 --> 13:09.866 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% I mostly use the corn for the cows 13:09.866 --> 13:13.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% because I have plenty of grass for the heifers. 13:15.500 --> 13:18.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Corn and alfalfa make a real good combination. 13:18.366 --> 13:21.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Alfalfa is a good protein source 13:21.000 --> 13:23.033 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% and corn is a good energy source. 13:23.033 --> 13:25.833 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% The two combined makes a real good ration 13:25.833 --> 13:28.533 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% for dairy cows, milking cows. 13:28.533 --> 13:30.400 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% They're stored all separately, 13:30.400 --> 13:32.766 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% but when they're fed to the cows, 13:32.766 --> 13:34.000 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% they're all mixed together. 13:34.000 --> 13:38.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% When a cow takes a bite, a mouthful of feed, 13:38.000 --> 13:40.566 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% they're basically getting all the same stuff 13:40.566 --> 13:42.066 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% through every mouthful. 13:42.066 --> 13:46.666 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% We still do buy a commercial grain to balance it off. 13:46.666 --> 13:49.700 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% - We met at church and he finally caught up to me 13:49.700 --> 13:53.700 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% and asked me out, and when he told me he was 13:53.700 --> 13:56.533 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% a dairy farmer, I just thought he was pulling my leg. 13:56.533 --> 13:59.166 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% I didn't believe him, you know, until he actually 13:59.166 --> 14:01.300 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% took me to the farm and showed me around. 14:01.300 --> 14:03.000 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% I was like totally amazed. 14:09.233 --> 14:12.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I register the cows like his mother used to do. 14:12.900 --> 14:15.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% That puts them into the Holstein association, 14:15.900 --> 14:19.233 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% gives them a name and number, it's kind of like a pedigree, 14:20.566 --> 14:23.300 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% who their mother and father, or dam and sire are. 14:23.300 --> 14:25.400 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% And it just kind of gives the information 14:25.400 --> 14:27.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and makes them a little bit more valuable 14:27.900 --> 14:30.066 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% to people that may want to buy them. 14:31.400 --> 14:36.400 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% I do all the bookwork and see all the bills 14:37.566 --> 14:40.000 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% and pay everybody, all the help and 14:40.000 --> 14:43.466 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% the guys that come up and do our haying for us. 14:43.466 --> 14:46.566 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% And basically keep his head screwed on tight, 14:46.566 --> 14:48.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% so that he can keep on farming. 14:48.800 --> 14:50.900 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Feed him, feed and water him (laughs). 14:50.900 --> 14:52.066 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% I have to take care of the farmer 14:52.066 --> 14:53.900 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% so the farmer can take care of the cows. 14:53.900 --> 14:56.266 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Yeah, I mean, it's a constant paycheck 14:56.266 --> 14:59.433 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% but that paycheck can vary so very greatly 14:59.433 --> 15:04.466 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% due to host of things, market value, 15:05.666 --> 15:07.800 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% what's going over as exports and imports. 15:07.800 --> 15:12.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% It just seems like when farmers are not getting 15:13.966 --> 15:15.700 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% a good price for the milk, then they start 15:15.700 --> 15:18.400 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% adding more cows on to make more milk 15:18.400 --> 15:20.233 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and that's a problem because then you have 15:20.233 --> 15:22.333 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% a glut of milk and then you have, 15:22.333 --> 15:24.333 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% you know, a lot of cheese sitting around 15:24.333 --> 15:26.900 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% and butter and all that excess 15:26.900 --> 15:29.033 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and that just brings your prices back down. 15:29.033 --> 15:33.866 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Over the last 2009, it's been horrendous 15:33.866 --> 15:35.833 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and a lot of farms had to go out of business 15:35.833 --> 15:38.000 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% because they just couldn't make it. 15:38.000 --> 15:40.700 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% So, it's a constant battle. 15:40.700 --> 15:42.900 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% And something that farmers definitely have to 15:42.900 --> 15:44.666 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% figure out what they're gonna do, 15:44.666 --> 15:48.166 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% dairy farmers I should say, how they're gonna control 15:48.166 --> 15:51.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% that milk so that they can get a decent price 15:51.133 --> 15:54.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and that will sustain them through, you know, 15:54.366 --> 15:56.866 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% different varying times. 15:56.866 --> 16:01.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - We used to hay a lot, and then we found out 16:01.400 --> 16:03.600 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% that actually chopping and making silage 16:03.600 --> 16:07.566 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% is a lot quicker, a lot less manual labor. 16:07.566 --> 16:09.566 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% I've been doing a lot of haying and selling 16:09.566 --> 16:11.866 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% the hay for horse hay or whatever. 16:11.866 --> 16:15.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And I hire a lot of local neighborhood kids 16:15.966 --> 16:19.066 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% or whatever to help pick up the hay in the summertime 16:19.066 --> 16:21.066 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% and get a pretty good crew together 16:21.066 --> 16:24.033 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and they kinda enjoy that at times. 16:24.033 --> 16:26.766 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% (engine rumbles) 16:29.866 --> 16:33.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I sell most all the baled hay, the dry hay. 16:33.933 --> 16:37.700 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% I've actually baled as many as 5,000 bales. 16:39.100 --> 16:42.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% We have Holsteins, they're black and white, 16:42.300 --> 16:43.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% they're all registered. 16:43.700 --> 16:47.033 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% The actually probably average weight of our Holstein 16:47.033 --> 16:50.866 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% is anywheres between 14-1700 pounds. 16:50.866 --> 16:53.033 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% My cows right now are giving anywheres 16:53.033 --> 16:55.433 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% from 70 to 80 pounds of milk a day. 16:55.433 --> 17:00.433 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% And a gallon of milk is 8.6 pounds. 17:01.600 --> 17:04.933 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% If a cow gave 86 pounds, that would 17:04.933 --> 17:07.100 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% be 10 gallons of milk that's they give. 17:07.100 --> 17:08.933 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% And I do have cows that are giving that. 17:08.933 --> 17:11.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I got some cows giving over 100 pounds of milk. 17:13.633 --> 17:15.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - I have 10 Jersey cows and was 17:18.600 --> 17:22.333 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% selling some raw milk here till last year 17:22.333 --> 17:24.600 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and then I teamed up with Richard Johnson 17:24.600 --> 17:29.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and Richard now milks my cows and he breeds 'em 17:30.966 --> 17:32.766 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% and they calve, they come back to the farm here 17:32.766 --> 17:35.666 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% and calve and I raise the calves for him. 17:35.666 --> 17:38.200 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% So, we're kind of working team work together. 17:38.200 --> 17:40.166 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% He helps me out financially with it 17:40.166 --> 17:41.666 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% and I'm able to keep the cows. 17:42.933 --> 17:45.866 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% - Right now I have 70 milking cows 17:45.866 --> 17:48.833 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% and when you have 70 milking cows, you always have 17:48.833 --> 17:51.466 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% some that are what we call dry cows. 17:51.466 --> 17:54.200 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% In other words, they're on vacation. 17:54.200 --> 17:56.333 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% There's a period of 50 days where you don't 17:56.333 --> 17:59.600 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% actually milk em, and then after 50 days, 17:59.600 --> 18:01.833 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% they'll be having their baby or calf, 18:01.833 --> 18:03.533 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and then when they're due to calf, 18:03.533 --> 18:05.033 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% they'll actually start bagging up 18:05.033 --> 18:08.366 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and it will, the udder will become full 18:08.366 --> 18:12.833 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% and swollen and uncomfortable and (laughs) 18:12.833 --> 18:14.433 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and when they calf, you start milking em 18:14.433 --> 18:17.166 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and some of them don't like but they 18:17.166 --> 18:19.666 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% appreciate it afterwards (laughs). 18:19.666 --> 18:20.900 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% - [Narrator] Richard Johnson breeds 18:20.900 --> 18:22.733 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% his dairy cows using semen delivered 18:22.733 --> 18:24.166 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% by Amy Jasmine. 18:24.166 --> 18:27.500 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% - The semen comes from bulls housed in 18:27.500 --> 18:30.833 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% Ithaca and in Shawano in Wisconsin. 18:30.833 --> 18:35.266 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% We have, we contract certain bulls 18:35.266 --> 18:37.100 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% and we also have our own dairy herd 18:37.100 --> 18:39.100 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% out in Wisconsin that we do a lot 18:39.100 --> 18:42.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% of research with on the semen and on the bulls. 18:42.166 --> 18:44.833 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% (machine whirs) 18:56.833 --> 18:58.233 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% I Will say that the smaller farms, 18:58.233 --> 19:02.300 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% the herds this size, they're managed well 19:02.300 --> 19:04.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and those are the ones that are 19:04.300 --> 19:07.733 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% better able to stay in it, so it has gotten 19:07.733 --> 19:09.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% a lot better over the last year. 19:09.900 --> 19:11.933 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% The milk prices have gone up. 19:11.933 --> 19:14.800 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% The only question is, it's always a question 19:14.800 --> 19:16.900 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% hopefully they'll stay there so they can 19:16.900 --> 19:19.666 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% (laughs) keep going and make a living 19:19.666 --> 19:22.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% not just break even, but actually make a profit. 19:24.066 --> 19:28.500 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% - After a cow calves, the first six milkings 19:28.500 --> 19:32.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% we discard, it basically is colostrum milk, 19:32.000 --> 19:34.000 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% that milk goes to feed the calves. 19:34.000 --> 19:37.633 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% We feed em with a bottle and nipple 19:37.633 --> 19:40.400 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% (clears throat) we found out if you take 19:40.400 --> 19:42.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% a new born calf and let it suck on the mother, 19:44.066 --> 19:46.733 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% you really don't know just how much milk 19:46.733 --> 19:48.566 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% the calf is getting in and they actually 19:48.566 --> 19:51.500 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% should get about a gallon of milk 19:51.500 --> 19:54.233 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% within the first two hours of birth 19:54.233 --> 19:56.833 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% but you only, most cows give a lot more 19:56.833 --> 19:58.733 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% than what the calf can drink, 19:58.733 --> 20:00.166 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% so we discard the rest of it. 20:01.500 --> 20:03.566 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% - The average working lifespan of a veterinary now 20:03.566 --> 20:08.133 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% is 30 years and three months and I've done it for 46. 20:08.133 --> 20:10.300 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% I absolutely love what I do. 20:10.300 --> 20:14.466 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% Many of my young farmers now have advanced degrees 20:14.466 --> 20:18.633 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% in bovine nutrition, bovine genetics 20:18.633 --> 20:22.766 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% agronomy, type of thing and so I'm dealing 20:22.766 --> 20:26.600 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% with a much higher educated population. 20:27.900 --> 20:32.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% My work in many respects is consulting, 20:33.866 --> 20:38.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% more than hands on, I've got Rick trained 20:38.133 --> 20:40.566 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% to do a lot of things and helping 20:40.566 --> 20:43.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% with delivery of calves coming, 20:43.000 --> 20:45.300 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% that I used to have to run and do myself. 20:45.300 --> 20:49.666 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% I have him trained in preventative health care. 20:49.666 --> 20:51.566 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% He's very very good at it. 20:52.733 --> 20:54.433 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% Rick Johnson and this Johnson Farm 20:54.433 --> 20:58.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% is one of the good farms in Northern New England 20:58.400 --> 21:01.033 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% and a few years back, they won 21:01.033 --> 21:03.400 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% what was called the Green Pastures Award 21:03.400 --> 21:06.166 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% which is the top dairy farm in the state of Maine. 21:06.166 --> 21:08.733 align:left position:32.5% line:5% size:57.5% (upbeat music) 21:10.833 --> 21:12.500 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% - [Narrator] Across the street from the Johnson Farm 21:12.500 --> 21:14.700 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% is the former Woodland Dairy. 21:14.700 --> 21:16.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Harry Cook started the business, 21:16.133 --> 21:18.066 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% but it was later acquired by Hy Rowan, 21:18.066 --> 21:19.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% who lived and worked there with 21:19.133 --> 21:20.700 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% his wife and 10 children. 21:20.700 --> 21:22.566 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% They had a dairy herd in processed milk 21:22.566 --> 21:24.166 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% acquired from other farmers. 21:24.166 --> 21:26.500 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% The dairy closed in the 1960s. 21:26.500 --> 21:28.233 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% Robert Rowan, the youngest children, 21:28.233 --> 21:30.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and his daughter Jenna live there now 21:30.133 --> 21:31.966 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and both of them work part time milking 21:31.966 --> 21:33.733 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% for the Johnsons. 21:33.733 --> 21:37.300 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% - Dad had a pasteurizing plant down the stairs 21:39.233 --> 21:42.800 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% and he pasteurized milk and delivered it door to door 21:42.800 --> 21:45.800 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% and delivered on Saturday and on my days off 21:45.800 --> 21:49.800 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% I used to go with him and deliver milk. 21:49.800 --> 21:51.833 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% Father had Holsteins. 21:51.833 --> 21:53.300 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% - Holsteins? - He had some golden 21:53.300 --> 21:55.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Guernseys to start with, but as everybody knows, 21:55.533 --> 21:57.300 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% the Holsteins give more milk, and so they 21:57.300 --> 22:01.033 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% he gradually switched over to all Holsteins. 22:04.633 --> 22:07.466 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% It's called green cut where he went from 22:08.633 --> 22:09.900 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% the chopper, green cut everything, 22:09.900 --> 22:13.200 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% and take it back to the bunk silo, 22:13.200 --> 22:14.966 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% unload it, and then a tractor would 22:14.966 --> 22:17.933 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% ride over it back and forth to pack it down. 22:19.366 --> 22:23.566 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% (cows moo) (machine whirs) 22:23.566 --> 22:26.733 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% - [Jenna] So I've been milking the cows for 10 years. 22:26.733 --> 22:28.533 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% I started when I twas 14 years old, 22:28.533 --> 22:31.300 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% learned how to milk a cow and 22:31.300 --> 22:33.066 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% I've been using obviously the machines 22:33.066 --> 22:35.433 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% that they have here, so I help out 22:35.433 --> 22:38.133 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% milking, just the milking portion. 22:38.133 --> 22:41.033 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Yeah, originally I was very frightened. 22:41.033 --> 22:42.466 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% I was very frightened of the cows, 22:42.466 --> 22:45.200 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% and they can kick, so it can hurt 22:45.200 --> 22:49.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and at times I've been hurt, but a lot 22:49.133 --> 22:51.900 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% of people ask me if I like farming 22:51.900 --> 22:54.233 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and enjoy the cows and more so I really 22:54.233 --> 22:56.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% like helping out Ricky, he has a lot to do 22:56.033 --> 22:58.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% on the farm and it's a good job 22:58.866 --> 23:00.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and such like that, so it's good, 23:00.133 --> 23:02.833 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% hard honest work and boss taught me a lot 23:02.833 --> 23:06.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% about what it is to work and the work ethic here. 23:06.100 --> 23:07.933 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% Definitely has one of those here, so. 23:09.300 --> 23:11.966 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% (machine whirs) 23:14.266 --> 23:17.133 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% - Been driving, hauling milk since 1965 23:18.300 --> 23:21.233 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% and it's been a long time, really. 23:21.233 --> 23:24.266 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% On this road, I've been driving on this road there 23:24.266 --> 23:27.433 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% for quite a few years, had about five, 23:27.433 --> 23:31.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% six farms I used to pick up then on this road. 23:31.700 --> 23:35.800 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% One of them was David Leavitt and Larry Cashmere, 23:36.933 --> 23:40.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and Freddy Schultz, and Mr Johnson over here 23:42.033 --> 23:45.300 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and then his, there's another farm 23:45.300 --> 23:47.333 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% down the road's a relation to him 23:47.333 --> 23:50.200 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% over there down the road and 23:52.133 --> 23:54.866 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% I've picked up a lot of milk in my days. 23:54.866 --> 23:58.333 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Years ago, a big farm, that was two, 23:58.333 --> 24:01.500 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% three thousand pounds of milk, now it's 24:01.500 --> 24:05.333 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% a big farm is 30,000, that's half a truck load. 24:05.333 --> 24:10.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% That's the way it is now, 'cause they had to 24:10.000 --> 24:13.266 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% put up more volume so they could make it. 24:15.566 --> 24:18.533 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% But I've seen a lot of farms go out of business. 24:18.533 --> 24:21.566 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% (machine beeps) (machine whirs) 24:21.566 --> 24:23.900 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Yeah, got 16 farms and one day and put it 24:23.900 --> 24:27.600 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% in a 3500 gallon tank, we thought 24:27.600 --> 24:30.833 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% that was pretty good (laughs) but now 24:30.833 --> 24:35.833 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% we're hauling 69,000 pound on a 22 wheeler 24:36.666 --> 24:38.766 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% and so that's pretty good. 24:39.833 --> 24:42.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Today's going to Franklin, Mass, 24:42.366 --> 24:45.600 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% over at Garelick and that's where 24:45.600 --> 24:48.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I've been hauling every other day I go there. 24:49.600 --> 24:52.200 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Hood's, sometimes we go over to Hood's 24:52.200 --> 24:54.833 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% when they need it in Portland. 24:56.533 --> 25:01.566 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% And West Lynn in Lynn, Mass, we go there. 25:02.900 --> 25:04.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Started six o'clock this morning 25:05.833 --> 25:08.066 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and I won't get back to garage until 25:08.066 --> 25:09.733 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% probably about eight o'clock tonight 25:09.733 --> 25:13.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% if everything goes good (laughs) 25:13.266 --> 25:17.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and so it is, you know, that's milk business. 25:18.400 --> 25:21.400 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% You never know. (machine whirs) 25:21.400 --> 25:23.066 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% - [Narrator] Larry and Nancy Cashmere moved 25:23.066 --> 25:25.666 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% to the Moulton Farm in 1973. 25:25.666 --> 25:27.800 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% He is descended from Major Joseph Hammond 25:27.800 --> 25:30.600 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% who arrived in South Eliot in 1670. 25:31.766 --> 25:33.100 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% Later members of the Hammond family 25:33.100 --> 25:35.666 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% spread to East Eliot and York. 25:35.666 --> 25:37.733 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% A Hammond daughter married a Moulton, 25:37.733 --> 25:39.566 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% beginning the Moulton farm. 25:39.566 --> 25:42.733 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% Sylvester Moulton built the current house in 1840. 25:44.300 --> 25:45.966 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% Although no longer dairy farming, 25:45.966 --> 25:47.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Cashmere still has a small herd. 25:47.800 --> 25:50.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% More pets than anything else, and he does 25:50.100 --> 25:52.400 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% custom sawing with a portable rig. 25:52.400 --> 25:54.933 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% His 150 acres of fields and woods 25:54.933 --> 25:56.633 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% stretches from Goodwin Road to the 25:56.633 --> 25:58.800 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% marshes of the York River. 25:58.800 --> 26:00.466 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% Larry hopes that one day, his land 26:00.466 --> 26:02.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% will be preserved as open space. 26:03.500 --> 26:06.366 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% - We moved here in 1973. 26:07.900 --> 26:09.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Over the course of three years, 26:09.133 --> 26:12.033 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% we got the place ready to start milking cows 26:12.033 --> 26:14.800 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and so in '76 we started shipping milk, 26:14.800 --> 26:16.633 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% in September of '76. 26:19.866 --> 26:23.200 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% I had the bright idea I wanted to be a dairy farmer. 26:23.200 --> 26:26.000 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% (laughs) I did it till '99. 26:27.966 --> 26:29.966 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% Yeah, and it got to a point where 26:29.966 --> 26:34.300 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% I decided the price of milk goes down, 26:34.300 --> 26:35.633 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% the kids were all gone. 26:37.033 --> 26:39.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% It's just too much work for the two of us. 26:40.833 --> 26:44.533 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% So I figured now's the time to get rid of the animals. 26:46.466 --> 26:48.966 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% We had 91 milkers and we had 90 heifers 26:48.966 --> 26:51.500 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% so we had about 180, 181 head. 26:53.166 --> 26:56.133 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% I think it was bigger than Johnsons even, yeah. 26:56.133 --> 26:59.300 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% Johnsons at the time about 160 head, I believe. 27:00.400 --> 27:02.933 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Yeah, they're my pets, there's 20 of em. 27:04.133 --> 27:05.533 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% Nah, just I don't know, I just like 27:05.533 --> 27:07.800 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% having em around (laughs) I don't know. 27:09.033 --> 27:11.133 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% Everybody asks me, why do I keep em 27:11.133 --> 27:13.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I don't know, I still grow corn, 27:13.500 --> 27:16.533 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% I still crow 19 acres of corn. 27:16.533 --> 27:18.966 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% I still maintain the fields. 27:20.100 --> 27:22.200 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Back in the '70s we bought some land 27:22.200 --> 27:25.633 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% so it's up to a area of 150 acres. 27:27.033 --> 27:29.600 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% Not much for row furnace, it all goes down back. 27:29.600 --> 27:31.366 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% I don't know so much of the saw mill's just 27:31.366 --> 27:33.433 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% something to do, something else to do. 27:33.433 --> 27:37.033 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% I enjoy cutting wood, I need to cut wood 27:37.033 --> 27:40.733 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% for my own use, people come around 27:40.733 --> 27:44.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% like they have some logs cut out for themselves. 27:44.533 --> 27:47.266 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% They like the thicker number, especially 27:47.266 --> 27:50.200 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% for your older homes, they require a little bit 27:50.200 --> 27:52.033 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% thicker than what there is today. 27:55.533 --> 27:57.200 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% - [Narrator] In Eliot the rolling fields 27:57.200 --> 27:59.866 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% of David and Jeannie Leavitt, once a dairy farm 27:59.866 --> 28:02.000 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and now a productive haying operation, 28:02.000 --> 28:03.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% catches the eyes of passers by. 28:04.966 --> 28:06.600 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% The beauty of the roadside hay field 28:06.600 --> 28:09.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% belies its utilitarian purpose. 28:09.333 --> 28:11.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% The story of the Leavitt family is typical 28:11.433 --> 28:13.966 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% of many former diary farms. 28:13.966 --> 28:16.633 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% (machine whirs) 28:21.633 --> 28:23.300 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% - I started in 1958. 28:24.533 --> 28:27.300 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% My father had decided he did not wanna 28:27.300 --> 28:29.266 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% milk cows anymore, my brother and I 28:29.266 --> 28:32.800 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% didn't want the cows to go and we agreed to 28:32.800 --> 28:34.100 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% keep milking them even though we were 28:34.100 --> 28:36.466 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% still in high school, I was a senior at the time 28:36.466 --> 28:37.766 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% my brother was a freshman. 28:39.666 --> 28:41.500 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% I graduated from high school, I also 28:41.500 --> 28:44.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% played baseball through the fall season. 28:44.266 --> 28:46.433 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% My brother would milk nights so I could do that 28:46.433 --> 28:50.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and that was the very beginning. 28:50.000 --> 28:52.700 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% (machine whirs) 28:55.666 --> 29:00.566 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% My father lost his farm in a disastrous fire in 1956. 29:02.333 --> 29:05.000 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% (fire crackles) 29:06.233 --> 29:10.100 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% He was not comfortable with borrowing money 29:10.100 --> 29:12.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and the credit that had been extended to him 29:12.866 --> 29:14.833 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% to get going again and he wanted out 29:15.666 --> 29:17.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and that's when my brother and I 29:17.533 --> 29:19.733 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% decided to milk the cows. 29:19.733 --> 29:24.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% In 1963, I purchased the cattle and the machinery from him 29:25.900 --> 29:28.500 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and then later on, I purchased the farm 29:28.500 --> 29:31.933 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% I think about 1965, didn't have a house on it, 29:31.933 --> 29:35.200 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% my father kept his house, but I bought the barns 29:35.200 --> 29:39.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and all the land, and then about 29:41.033 --> 29:44.033 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% 1967, Jeanne and I built a new house 29:44.033 --> 29:46.033 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% down where the new barn was located 29:47.166 --> 29:51.166 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and I bought other land and added to that 29:51.166 --> 29:54.400 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and at one time I owned about 232 acres 29:54.400 --> 29:57.666 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% of which about 105 were crop land. 29:57.666 --> 30:01.100 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% It grew all the feed for the dairy herd that we had 30:01.100 --> 30:03.333 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% and we only had to buy the grain. 30:03.333 --> 30:05.666 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% After we got rid of the cows, we sold some 30:05.666 --> 30:09.033 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% of that land off, so that the present operation 30:09.033 --> 30:12.333 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% is 131 acres left here and about 60 30:12.333 --> 30:16.000 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% to 65 of that is crop land that we hay. 30:18.000 --> 30:20.000 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% When we first got married, Jeanne worked 30:20.000 --> 30:21.666 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% on the Air Base Exchange. 30:21.666 --> 30:23.333 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% When she was pregnant with the first child 30:23.333 --> 30:27.100 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% she came back on the farm, worked on the farm with me. 30:27.100 --> 30:29.666 align:left position:32.5% line:5% size:57.5% (upbeat music) 30:32.866 --> 30:34.400 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% - It's been nice being a farmer's wife 30:34.400 --> 30:36.733 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% raising our children here. 30:36.733 --> 30:41.266 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% They've worked hard, kept em out of trouble. 30:42.733 --> 30:44.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% They've learned a lot of things 30:44.233 --> 30:45.700 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% that they've been able to take with em 30:45.700 --> 30:48.833 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% into their adult life and they've all 30:48.833 --> 30:52.500 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% got different jobs now that don't pertain 30:52.500 --> 30:54.333 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% to the farm but they seem to come back 30:54.333 --> 30:57.600 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and help us on the farm. 30:57.600 --> 30:59.100 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% So they still enjoy it. 31:06.433 --> 31:08.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - My farming knowledge and genes 31:08.733 --> 31:10.433 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% would go back through my mother's 31:10.433 --> 31:13.566 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% side of the family, her father John S. Barnard 31:13.566 --> 31:15.600 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% came to Eliot in 1906 and he bought 31:15.600 --> 31:18.566 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% the airport property, it was about 260 acres 31:18.566 --> 31:21.500 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% in that at the time, he was an orchard farmer, 31:21.500 --> 31:23.066 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% he had other businesses, he milked 31:23.066 --> 31:24.800 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% a few cows and did a lot of things 31:24.800 --> 31:28.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% but my mother grew up on that hill over there 31:28.500 --> 31:32.733 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% at the airport and she married the farmer, 31:32.733 --> 31:34.500 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% Mills Goodwin, who owned this farm 31:34.500 --> 31:38.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% out here on Goodwin Road, and he only lived 31:38.566 --> 31:42.100 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% a year and he died and she became 31:42.100 --> 31:44.333 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% the sole owner of the place. 31:44.333 --> 31:46.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And my grandfather that was called on there, 31:46.433 --> 31:49.233 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% he milked his cows at the airport 31:49.233 --> 31:51.733 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% and he came over and took care of her herd of cows 31:51.733 --> 31:54.633 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and eventually he moved his over here 31:54.633 --> 31:56.500 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and he still, he ran the whole place 31:56.500 --> 32:01.466 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% which was probably 350-400 acres of land 32:02.400 --> 32:05.633 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% that he farmed and. 32:05.633 --> 32:08.500 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% My father started working for him 32:08.500 --> 32:11.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and eventually married my mother 32:12.700 --> 32:15.733 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% and everything was going great because 32:15.733 --> 32:17.233 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% my grandfather was running the place 32:17.233 --> 32:19.300 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% my father was just really a hired hand around here 32:19.300 --> 32:21.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% but when my grandfather died, he became 32:21.566 --> 32:25.200 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% the soul operator and he did not like that. 32:25.200 --> 32:26.800 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% He really didn't. 32:27.966 --> 32:29.200 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% I can remember now when I was a kid 32:29.200 --> 32:31.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% following him round the barn, he used to 32:31.133 --> 32:33.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% turn his hat around backwards when 32:33.133 --> 32:34.366 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% he was milking the cows and he'd lean up 32:34.366 --> 32:36.566 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% on the flanks and he was singing away 32:36.566 --> 32:38.666 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% over and over he said once I was happy, 32:38.666 --> 32:41.000 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% but look at me now, I'm tied to the tail 32:41.000 --> 32:43.633 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% of this old brown cow (laughs) 32:43.633 --> 32:46.933 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% and so when I came along and he had 32:46.933 --> 32:49.466 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% an opportunity to get out and it took him 32:49.466 --> 32:51.366 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% 20 years, he had a 20 year detour 32:51.366 --> 32:52.800 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% on what he wanted to do before he 32:52.800 --> 32:56.500 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% before I came along and took over the farm 32:56.500 --> 32:58.233 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% and he could leave and he went on 32:58.233 --> 32:59.800 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% to work for the state of Maine 32:59.800 --> 33:02.300 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% as a field man for the Tax Bureau 33:02.300 --> 33:04.533 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% but when Jeanne got more involved 33:04.533 --> 33:06.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% in the operation, we decided to 33:06.533 --> 33:09.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% go with registered Holsteins and 33:10.700 --> 33:12.366 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% that's when we decided we'd set a number 33:12.366 --> 33:14.866 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% that we would milk just 40 and just 33:14.866 --> 33:17.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% try to keep improving the herd and culling out 33:17.566 --> 33:20.133 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% the less desirable ones. 33:20.133 --> 33:22.200 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% We didn't feed much hay. 33:22.200 --> 33:25.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% We'd feed maybe four, five, six pounds of hay 33:25.400 --> 33:29.033 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% per cow per day, we chopped all the first crop 33:29.033 --> 33:31.600 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% put it in the silos and we could do that 33:31.600 --> 33:34.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% earlier in the year and it made better feed, 33:34.100 --> 33:37.766 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% higher protein and we used to grow alfalfa 33:37.766 --> 33:42.766 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% for the protein and that is a hard crop 33:44.566 --> 33:46.533 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% to make in the hay anyway, so that's the only thing 33:46.533 --> 33:48.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% this part of the country you can do with it 33:48.300 --> 33:49.633 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% is to make it into silage. 33:50.800 --> 33:52.300 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% We used that for the protein source 33:52.300 --> 33:54.566 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and then we grew corn silage for the energy. 33:54.566 --> 33:57.700 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Then we blended those two in a feed wagon 33:57.700 --> 33:59.733 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and we fed it right on top of the ground 33:59.733 --> 34:02.533 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% to the cows at the feed bunk and they stood out there 34:02.533 --> 34:06.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% in the sleet, the rain, snow, wind whatever 34:06.333 --> 34:07.433 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% and they ate (laughs). 34:12.433 --> 34:15.200 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% When we first started, we hired part-timers. 34:15.200 --> 34:17.766 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Larry Cashmere took in work for us 34:17.766 --> 34:20.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% for two years, he milked once a day for us 34:20.266 --> 34:23.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% that helped, then following him, 34:23.600 --> 34:25.333 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% Robert Rowan worked here. 34:25.333 --> 34:27.366 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Paul Randalf comes to mind as one of em. 34:30.166 --> 34:31.933 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% - I went to work for Frank Sergeant, 34:31.933 --> 34:34.466 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% who lived over on the Beech Road and 34:35.600 --> 34:37.033 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% Frank took me over one day to see 34:37.033 --> 34:41.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% David Leavitt and David Leavitt gave me a job. 34:41.300 --> 34:44.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I was 11 years old and I worked 34:44.000 --> 34:46.700 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% every day after school and Saturday 34:46.700 --> 34:51.300 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and Sundays and I enjoyed it immensely. 34:52.533 --> 34:54.933 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% (cock crows) 34:57.700 --> 34:59.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% - We had full time help. 34:59.300 --> 35:00.800 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% We had the time off, but we didn't have 35:00.800 --> 35:03.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% as much money to travel or do what we wanted 35:03.666 --> 35:06.933 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and it just, the farm wasn't big enough 35:06.933 --> 35:09.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% to support two families with it 35:10.900 --> 35:12.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and we milked cows for 30 years 35:14.166 --> 35:16.433 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and then in the 1980s, the dairy business 35:16.433 --> 35:21.166 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% turned down, for us anyway, and we decided 35:21.166 --> 35:24.000 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% that it was time to take the money out 35:24.000 --> 35:27.533 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% and we sold the herd. 35:27.533 --> 35:30.100 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% (upbeat music) 35:41.000 --> 35:42.833 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Well after we sold the cows, I thought 35:42.833 --> 35:44.200 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% I was gonna retire (laughs). 35:45.566 --> 35:48.566 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% Well I found out that I didn't like that particularly, 35:48.566 --> 35:53.400 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and also pay the taxes and keep things up 35:53.400 --> 35:56.433 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% that we needed and wanted, I needed 35:56.433 --> 35:59.166 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% more income, so we decided to go back 35:59.166 --> 36:02.900 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% into the haying business and there's a pretty good 36:02.900 --> 36:04.166 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% market in this part of the country 36:04.166 --> 36:06.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% for a small bale of hay, for the horse people 36:06.000 --> 36:08.433 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and alpacas and sheep and goats and 36:09.433 --> 36:13.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% a lot of small farms buy hay and 36:13.433 --> 36:17.900 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% that has become profitable for a side line. 36:17.900 --> 36:20.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% It would be hard to make a full living on it 36:20.400 --> 36:22.333 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% but on our small farm, it's very good 36:22.333 --> 36:27.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% supplemental income and in 2011, 36:28.233 --> 36:29.733 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% we put 8100 bales of hay. 36:30.600 --> 36:33.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Up until just a short time ago, 36:33.233 --> 36:36.566 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% I did that haying pretty much myself. 36:36.566 --> 36:39.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% We took in, we bought an automatic bail wagon 36:39.100 --> 36:41.333 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% which picks that hay up in the field 36:41.333 --> 36:44.066 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% and sets it into the barn and 36:44.066 --> 36:46.000 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% you don't have to stack it. 36:46.000 --> 36:48.166 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% The mulch barn we still stack by hand 36:48.166 --> 36:50.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and my kids were called in to help on that 36:50.733 --> 36:53.733 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% and they did so, but at one time, 36:53.733 --> 36:57.100 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% I mowed the hay, I tended the hay 36:57.100 --> 36:59.733 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% I raked the hay, I baled the hay and hauled the hay 36:59.733 --> 37:01.733 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and that hay wasn't touched by human hands 37:01.733 --> 37:02.833 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% until we loaded in on a truck and 37:02.833 --> 37:05.400 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% sold it to customers. 37:05.400 --> 37:08.000 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% (upbeat music) 37:37.866 --> 37:39.166 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% - [Narrator] Just beyond the Leavitt farm 37:39.166 --> 37:41.533 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% is the home of Eleanor Pearsall. 37:41.533 --> 37:43.666 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% For several decades, she and her husband David 37:43.666 --> 37:45.666 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% sold and serviced Case farm tractors 37:45.666 --> 37:47.700 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% and related farming equipment. 37:47.700 --> 37:50.133 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% Born 84 years ago in the house 37:50.133 --> 37:52.666 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% where she now lives, Eleanor remembers when 37:52.666 --> 37:55.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% nearly every place on Goodwin Road was a farm. 37:55.466 --> 37:56.400 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% (upbeat music) Most of them owned 37:56.400 --> 37:57.833 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% by families named Goodwin. 38:00.133 --> 38:03.066 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% - One day my husband came in and he said 38:03.066 --> 38:06.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% you know, he said, the man from Massachusetts 38:06.133 --> 38:09.200 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% from Rowley that repairs Case tractors 38:09.200 --> 38:10.700 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% keeps coming in here, he keeps 38:10.700 --> 38:13.366 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% coming down to repair Mr. Blake's tractors, 38:13.366 --> 38:16.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% he has two Case tractors and he's getting tired 38:16.366 --> 38:17.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% of coming all this way to put in 38:17.866 --> 38:20.566 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% a 50 cent bolt, so he came in and he said 38:20.566 --> 38:22.400 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% to my husband, why don't you take on 38:22.400 --> 38:24.766 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% the Case franchise tractor business. 38:24.766 --> 38:26.566 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% So my husband came in and he said 38:26.566 --> 38:28.366 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% how would you like to get into tractor business 38:28.366 --> 38:30.233 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% and I said my, I don't know anything about it 38:30.233 --> 38:32.300 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% but I guess we could, and I pictured 38:32.300 --> 38:34.900 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% one tractor In the yard out here. 38:34.900 --> 38:37.366 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% Little did I know they came by 12s. 38:37.366 --> 38:41.133 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% They came by 12 agricultural and 12 industrial. 38:41.133 --> 38:43.033 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% They came by 12 manure spreaders, 38:43.033 --> 38:46.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% 12 plows, 12 bailors, 12 rakes, 38:46.866 --> 38:50.400 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and I had panic city when I of course 38:50.400 --> 38:54.400 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% saw the invoices coming in, but we made a go of it. 38:54.400 --> 38:56.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I worked nights nursing and then I'd work 38:56.533 --> 38:58.366 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% in the garage in the parts department all day. 38:58.366 --> 39:02.500 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% I didn't know a bailor needle from 39:02.500 --> 39:05.166 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% the plowshare, but I sure learned (laughs). 39:06.866 --> 39:08.133 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% - [Narrator] John Sullivan was 39:08.133 --> 39:09.866 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% a farm worker in his youth, but he spent 39:09.866 --> 39:11.866 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% his working life elsewhere. 39:11.866 --> 39:13.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% What remained for him was a love 39:13.266 --> 39:15.166 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% of tractors and eventually, he began 39:15.166 --> 39:16.800 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% to buy old tractors and restore them. 39:16.800 --> 39:19.333 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% One or two tractors have led to many more, 39:19.333 --> 39:21.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% mostly bright green John Deeres. 39:24.100 --> 39:26.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - Well, when I worked down here on this farm, 39:26.500 --> 39:31.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I used the John Deere, that John Deere B here, 39:32.366 --> 39:34.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% the John Deere A, he used that, 39:34.633 --> 39:38.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and I used the John Deere B and 39:38.300 --> 39:40.766 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% when I got out of Simplex, went to 39:40.766 --> 39:43.133 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% the Navy Yard to work, there was a guy 39:43.133 --> 39:47.100 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% in there looking for a cut down tractor 39:47.100 --> 39:48.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and the guy in the machine shop 39:48.933 --> 39:51.700 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% said he had a regular tractor. 39:51.700 --> 39:54.933 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% He said it was a John Deere, this guy 39:54.933 --> 39:56.866 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% said I don't want it, would you like it, 39:56.866 --> 39:59.500 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% you like John Deeres, so I went up 39:59.500 --> 40:02.466 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% to look at it and ended up buying that. 40:02.466 --> 40:05.600 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% While we was waiting for the coil to dry 40:05.600 --> 40:08.500 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% in the oven to get it started, 40:08.500 --> 40:11.200 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% we went over to his father's, which was 40:11.200 --> 40:14.500 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Fred Oback, and he had another John Deere, 40:14.500 --> 40:16.966 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% the same model with a mowing machine on it 40:16.966 --> 40:21.966 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% out in the barn so we looked at that and 40:23.133 --> 40:24.600 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% then he said we've got another one 40:24.600 --> 40:27.133 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% for what we use for parts out in the pasture, 40:27.133 --> 40:29.466 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% so I went and looked at that and ended up 40:29.466 --> 40:32.700 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% buying all three of em and bringing em home. 40:32.700 --> 40:35.866 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% I sold one, used the other one for parts 40:35.866 --> 40:40.766 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and I ended up buying John Deere Ls and LAs, 40:40.766 --> 40:43.333 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% I had about six of them for a while but 40:43.333 --> 40:46.033 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% I didn't like them too good and I bought 40:46.033 --> 40:49.966 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% these big As what I use in the parade. 40:49.966 --> 40:54.133 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% Got one there that's 1936, I pulled it all apart 40:54.133 --> 40:57.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% sand blasted it, primed it and painted it 40:57.100 --> 41:00.533 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and put new fenders, tires, rings, 41:00.533 --> 41:04.500 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% valve job and done it all over I used that 41:04.500 --> 41:08.033 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% in parades, shows all the time 41:08.033 --> 41:12.200 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and I got a John Deere 40 that I just done 41:12.200 --> 41:16.166 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% redone last year, I got a John Deere H 41:16.166 --> 41:18.533 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% in the shed, one of the first ones 41:18.533 --> 41:22.066 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% I ever bought there, and I got a couple 41:22.066 --> 41:25.000 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% more John Deere As hanging around here. 41:25.000 --> 41:29.900 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% And I bought a Kubota way back when they 41:29.900 --> 41:32.666 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% first came out to mow my lawn with. 41:32.666 --> 41:36.400 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% I ended up I got three of them now 41:36.400 --> 41:39.366 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% and I got a Silver King in the shed. 41:39.366 --> 41:43.366 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% I got a Gibson in the shed and I got 41:45.033 --> 41:47.533 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% seven pedal tractors, all different makes 41:47.533 --> 41:50.333 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% here and there, yep (laughs). 41:52.600 --> 41:55.033 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% - Bert Tuttle knew farmers were a thirsty bunch 41:55.033 --> 41:57.733 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% so in 1903, he bought a used cider press 41:57.733 --> 41:59.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and began King Tut's Cider Mill, 41:59.833 --> 42:02.466 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% turning out barrels of cider for local consumption. 42:03.600 --> 42:05.100 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Now, more than a hundred years later, 42:05.100 --> 42:06.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Bert's grandson, Ken, continues 42:06.800 --> 42:09.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% the family tradition using the original press 42:09.333 --> 42:11.400 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% in the original building. 42:11.400 --> 42:12.900 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% From late September through the end 42:12.900 --> 42:14.933 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% of the year, Tuttle produces choice, 42:14.933 --> 42:17.000 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% sweet cider from crisp Maine apples. 42:19.466 --> 42:22.000 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% - Yep, my grandfather bought the mill used 42:22.000 --> 42:25.100 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% and he put it together in 1903, so I'm not sure 42:25.100 --> 42:27.166 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% how old the thing really is, but it's been 42:27.166 --> 42:28.966 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% running every yeah since. 42:28.966 --> 42:31.000 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% (machines whir) 42:31.000 --> 42:33.600 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% And we had a farm, we had about 200 acres 42:33.600 --> 42:36.833 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% of dairy farm and he put the mill in 42:36.833 --> 42:39.633 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% just to make cider for the farmers. 42:39.633 --> 42:42.400 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% (machine clacks) 42:43.466 --> 42:45.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Every farm had their own orchard 42:45.100 --> 42:48.433 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% so he was only open for four weeks 42:48.433 --> 42:50.566 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% out of the year just while the apple season 42:50.566 --> 42:53.500 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% was going on. (machine whirs) 42:55.900 --> 42:58.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% He had a saw mill, and the slabs 42:58.066 --> 43:00.466 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% from the saw mill used to run the press here 43:00.466 --> 43:04.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% which was run by steam. (machine whirs) 43:06.566 --> 43:08.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% He was a conductor on the PD&Y, 43:08.466 --> 43:10.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% which is the Portsmouth, Dover and York 43:10.300 --> 43:14.000 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% railroad line, or trolley line, out back here 43:14.000 --> 43:16.666 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and he wired into that for electricity 43:16.666 --> 43:19.633 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% back in the 30s and busted up the boiler 43:19.633 --> 43:22.733 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% and started using electric motors, 43:22.733 --> 43:25.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% which mad it a lot easier, more convenient. 43:25.033 --> 43:30.033 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% (machine whirs) (machine hisses) 43:35.400 --> 43:37.133 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% We buy apples from all over the area, 43:37.133 --> 43:38.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% we don't have our own orchards. 43:38.800 --> 43:41.500 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% (machines clack) 43:43.633 --> 43:45.133 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Dump em in, grind em up. 43:45.133 --> 43:47.800 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% (machine whirs) 43:54.333 --> 43:55.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And then there's a 50 ton press 43:55.933 --> 43:59.333 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% that squeezes the juice out in the cheese cloths. 43:59.333 --> 44:02.100 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% (machine clacks) 44:08.133 --> 44:10.800 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% (machine whirs) 44:14.266 --> 44:17.033 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% (machine clacks) 44:19.200 --> 44:20.900 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% And the juice is transferred to a 44:20.900 --> 44:24.800 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% bottling facility and we bottle it 44:24.800 --> 44:27.166 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% into gallons and half gallons and pints. 44:27.166 --> 44:29.866 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% (machine clacks) 44:40.400 --> 44:43.066 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% And it goes out into the store and under refrigeration. 44:43.066 --> 44:45.300 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% We're only open weekends, so any time, 44:45.300 --> 44:47.200 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% come on down and the end of September 44:47.200 --> 44:49.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% till Christmas, and get some of 44:49.700 --> 44:51.633 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% the best cider in the country (laughs). 44:54.266 --> 44:55.600 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% - [Narrator] Most farmers say farming 44:55.600 --> 44:56.866 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% is in their blood. 44:56.866 --> 44:58.533 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% They begin working on the family farm 44:58.533 --> 45:00.800 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% as youngsters, and eventually acquire the farm 45:00.800 --> 45:02.933 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% when their parents retire. 45:02.933 --> 45:05.633 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% For Fred Schultz, farming came later in life. 45:05.633 --> 45:08.200 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% He caught lobsters as a high school student, 45:08.200 --> 45:10.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% graduated from college, and then worked 45:10.166 --> 45:12.100 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% in Portsmouth for his father's frankfurter 45:12.100 --> 45:13.766 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% and sausage making business. 45:14.933 --> 45:16.833 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% In the 1960s, he and his wife Tony, 45:16.833 --> 45:19.100 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% bought an old farm in Eliot. 45:19.100 --> 45:21.466 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% Soon they became farmers too. 45:21.466 --> 45:23.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Fred mainly works alone, although he often 45:23.533 --> 45:25.033 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% has assistance with milking. 45:26.600 --> 45:30.333 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% - My father had horses, race horses 45:30.333 --> 45:32.100 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% and I learned the value of 45:35.400 --> 45:40.366 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% the attraction of trying to breed better animals and 45:43.933 --> 45:48.600 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% just really take an enjoyment from 45:48.600 --> 45:50.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% the care of the animals and the nourishment 45:50.600 --> 45:53.000 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% of em and trying to do everything 45:53.000 --> 45:57.766 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% as good as you can to make as comfortable 45:57.766 --> 46:02.200 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and productive an animal as you can and 46:02.200 --> 46:04.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% when I was a kid in high school, 46:04.000 --> 46:08.033 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% every summer I caught lobsters. 46:08.033 --> 46:11.000 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% That's very similar, doesn't sound similar, 46:11.000 --> 46:13.400 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% probably to the average person, but 46:13.400 --> 46:16.166 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% it's similar in that you're on your own, 46:17.366 --> 46:19.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% every day you gotta get up and do something 46:19.500 --> 46:21.833 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% and make something out of the day 46:21.833 --> 46:26.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and it's your responsibility and 46:26.166 --> 46:29.166 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% really if you start with that, you can do something. 46:29.166 --> 46:34.100 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% 1968 I was in college and casting around 46:35.433 --> 46:38.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% looking while at the same time I was working 46:38.400 --> 46:42.066 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% for my father, I was finishing college at night. 46:45.866 --> 46:48.000 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% I kinda thought I had a career with 46:48.000 --> 46:51.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% my father's business, he had a very successful 46:51.600 --> 46:56.333 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% sausage business, but as I 46:58.566 --> 47:01.066 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% as time went on and I really grew 47:01.066 --> 47:03.500 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% to like the place I increasingly became 47:03.500 --> 47:07.100 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% attracted to this way of life and I started 47:07.100 --> 47:11.500 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% in earnest in 1976 on my own. 47:11.500 --> 47:14.200 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% (machine whirs) 47:19.133 --> 47:22.633 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% Chester Frost bought the little parcel 47:26.100 --> 47:31.100 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% over there in about 1860 and then he added 47:34.400 --> 47:38.566 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% this major piece, the Gowan piece in 19 47:38.566 --> 47:43.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% about 1900 and the other one was 47:44.733 --> 47:46.866 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% from a Shapley, in the Shapley years, 47:46.866 --> 47:49.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% their cemetery is across the street there 47:50.466 --> 47:54.833 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% and they constructed those two barns over there. 47:54.833 --> 47:56.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% So I started out with purebreds, 47:56.400 --> 47:59.766 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% they are purebred, but I start keeping 47:59.766 --> 48:00.800 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% the papers up 48:03.733 --> 48:05.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% this is the second herd I've had 48:05.533 --> 48:07.400 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and the second herd I didn't have time 48:07.400 --> 48:11.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% really to do it, but I know the lineage 48:11.133 --> 48:13.300 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% of all of em, I keep a record of that 48:13.300 --> 48:17.666 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% and right now there's about 80 head 48:17.666 --> 48:21.000 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% on the farm, there's about 45 cows 48:23.233 --> 48:28.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and 45 milking cows as they say. 48:29.400 --> 48:30.666 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% The bankers always wanna know how many 48:30.666 --> 48:34.233 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% milking cows you have, how many young stock. 48:34.233 --> 48:36.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% There's about 40/45 milking cows 48:36.633 --> 48:39.800 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% we were miking this morning 37 cows 48:39.800 --> 48:44.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% produced about 2300/2400 pounds of milk today 48:45.966 --> 48:48.900 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% yesterday, so and there's probably about 48:53.033 --> 48:56.400 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% so that means there's about 40 young stock. 48:56.400 --> 48:58.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% There's two animals right over there in heat 48:58.800 --> 49:02.300 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% that's one of the primary jobs I have is 49:02.300 --> 49:07.300 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% to keep them bred and keep em reproducing. 49:08.700 --> 49:11.233 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% (upbeat music) 49:13.533 --> 49:16.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Generally, you try to keep a cow 49:16.033 --> 49:20.433 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% as long as you can, you enjoy sustaining the cow, 49:20.433 --> 49:22.433 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% seeing the cow go through the cycles 49:22.433 --> 49:26.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% of calving, milking, breasting, 49:27.233 --> 49:31.600 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% starting it again and you try your damnedest 49:31.600 --> 49:35.566 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% to keep em happy and healthy. 49:40.033 --> 49:43.700 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% But it's a constant learning experience. 49:45.433 --> 49:47.433 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% It's constantly challenging. 49:50.033 --> 49:51.266 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% And you get the feelings sometimes 49:51.266 --> 49:53.566 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% you don't do as good a job as you should 49:53.566 --> 49:56.800 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% or you can't and you have to pay for it. 50:02.433 --> 50:03.933 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% It's very important what you get done 50:03.933 --> 50:06.366 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% at this time of year, get your first 50:07.966 --> 50:10.100 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% crop off on hay as soon as you can 50:10.100 --> 50:12.233 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% to make the best feed you can for em 50:14.033 --> 50:17.700 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% to get your corn planted and get things 50:17.700 --> 50:21.200 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% set up for the whole year. 50:22.533 --> 50:25.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% So a day like today you get up, 50:25.033 --> 50:28.533 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% it's the same as every day and you first 50:28.533 --> 50:30.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% take care of your cows, that's the way 50:30.133 --> 50:33.433 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% I look at it, is the cows come first. 50:38.266 --> 50:39.700 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% - And when we got married, that's when 50:39.700 --> 50:41.300 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% he informed me that some day he's going 50:41.300 --> 50:43.866 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% to have a farm, oh I guess it must have been 50:43.866 --> 50:47.566 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% probably 10 years later, we did have a farm 50:47.566 --> 50:51.933 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% and we didn't have cows then, it was 50:51.933 --> 50:56.066 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% a real mess, the farm, the house was a mess and 50:56.066 --> 50:58.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% after a couple of years fixing the house up 50:58.933 --> 51:03.933 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% and the fields a little, we, I decided 51:05.600 --> 51:09.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% we probably should have a cow, so we got a cow 51:09.633 --> 51:14.333 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and we named her Blossom and from there 51:14.333 --> 51:17.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Fred liked it and used to visit 51:17.600 --> 51:20.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Dave Leavitt's farm and Frank Sergeant's farm 51:20.666 --> 51:25.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and to learn about farming because Fred has 51:27.700 --> 51:31.166 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% an education, he's a English major 51:31.166 --> 51:35.100 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and he also has a degree in sociology 51:36.700 --> 51:39.966 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% but he didn't have any knowledge of farming 51:39.966 --> 51:43.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and cows and animal husbandry so 51:44.933 --> 51:47.100 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% then we had five cows and he started 51:47.100 --> 51:49.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% milking em all himself, he still worked 51:49.000 --> 51:52.933 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% in Portsmouth and we got to about 15 cows 51:52.933 --> 51:54.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% he stopped working in Portsmouth 51:55.633 --> 51:57.800 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and we'd milk the cows. 51:57.800 --> 52:00.100 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% At that time, I think Fred was doing 52:00.100 --> 52:04.266 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% all the milking and the two older children 52:04.266 --> 52:07.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and I would do chores, we'd take care of calves 52:07.000 --> 52:11.666 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and clean the aisles and help feed and 52:13.566 --> 52:15.966 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% then of course as the years went by 52:15.966 --> 52:18.333 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% we got more and more cows and then 52:18.333 --> 52:21.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% at one point I started milking and as the girls 52:21.666 --> 52:24.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% got older, they started milking and then 52:24.000 --> 52:28.333 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% our son came along and eventually 52:28.333 --> 52:30.666 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% all the children had chores in the morning 52:30.666 --> 52:33.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% before they went to school, so they'd get up 52:33.066 --> 52:34.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% in the morning and run out and do their chores 52:34.833 --> 52:37.833 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and come in and take their clothes off and 52:39.233 --> 52:41.900 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% wash themselves up because they didn't wanna smell 52:41.900 --> 52:44.500 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% and go off and then at night, when they came home 52:44.500 --> 52:48.800 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% from school, we used to eat supper early. 52:48.800 --> 52:50.866 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% We'd eat around four, 4:30, and then 52:50.866 --> 52:54.166 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% we'd go do the chores, because otherwise, 52:54.166 --> 52:56.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% we didn't know what time we would get in at night 52:56.733 --> 53:00.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% because there's always something happening in the barn. 53:00.000 --> 53:02.600 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% (upbeat music) 53:08.466 --> 53:11.400 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% - Today I'm gonna do, I'm gonna chop that 53:14.133 --> 53:17.800 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% grass feed I made three, four days ago. 53:17.800 --> 53:22.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% It's really finest kind of feed. 53:24.500 --> 53:27.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% We've had this dry weather and I cut it 53:27.133 --> 53:30.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% really a great pleasure to make feed like that 53:30.400 --> 53:32.066 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% in comparison to, for example, 53:32.066 --> 53:34.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% last year it just seemed to rain all the time 53:34.500 --> 53:36.633 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% it was tough and so 53:39.800 --> 53:42.000 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% it's all about after you get your cows 53:42.000 --> 53:43.733 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% taken care off, getting in the middle 53:43.733 --> 53:47.666 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% of the day, your equipment maintained 53:47.666 --> 53:49.133 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% and operating right. 54:00.333 --> 54:02.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And the other thing is the cows 54:02.300 --> 54:05.166 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% have to out every day for a certain amount 54:05.166 --> 54:08.166 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% of time and depending on how hot it is, 54:08.166 --> 54:09.666 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% like today it looks like it's gonna be 54:09.666 --> 54:12.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% real nice, I'm gonna put em out in the afternoon. 54:12.300 --> 54:16.166 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% So they don't like wind, they don't like 54:16.166 --> 54:20.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% hot sun, and they don't like a hard rain, so. 54:22.200 --> 54:23.633 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% You kinda work around that. 54:27.333 --> 54:32.300 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% They're like you and I that you can see 54:32.300 --> 54:34.633 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% they look forward when the weather's good, 54:34.633 --> 54:36.000 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% when the weather's nice, you can see 54:36.000 --> 54:37.466 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% they look forward to getting out, 54:37.466 --> 54:42.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% walking around, you know bumping each other, 54:43.633 --> 54:45.000 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% being in the herd and you can see 54:45.000 --> 54:49.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% they enjoy it, I always have in the summertime, 54:51.900 --> 54:54.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% when you have that hot weather, 54:54.633 --> 54:58.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% it's hot all day and the barn is 54:58.166 --> 55:01.233 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% you try to keep it, as much air going through 55:01.233 --> 55:03.166 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% the barn as you can, it's comfortable, 55:03.166 --> 55:06.866 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% but it's not like outside and it's quite a feeling 55:06.866 --> 55:09.566 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% that at night, when they're milked 55:11.033 --> 55:14.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and you put, I try to when the weather's right 55:14.233 --> 55:17.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% to turn em out all night and they just love it. 55:17.066 --> 55:19.933 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% They march out and I have feed for em 55:19.933 --> 55:23.633 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% outside in those racks and they just 55:23.633 --> 55:25.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% march out, take a drink of water 55:25.533 --> 55:28.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and the air is so different, you can just 55:28.700 --> 55:30.933 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% appreciate how much they like it. 55:34.233 --> 55:36.866 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% All right, all right, all right, come on. 55:39.966 --> 55:40.800 align:left position:42.5% line:89% size:47.5% Ready. 55:46.566 --> 55:49.266 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55% Come on. (cow moos) 55:49.266 --> 55:54.266 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% Come on. (bucket clangs) 55:58.300 --> 55:59.133 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% Come on. 56:01.166 --> 56:02.433 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% - [Narrator] What does the future hold 56:02.433 --> 56:04.100 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% for other farms on this winding road? 56:05.200 --> 56:07.966 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% From Route 1 in Kittery to Route 236, 56:07.966 --> 56:10.266 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% there are nearly 1000 acres of open land 56:10.266 --> 56:12.266 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% along route 101. 56:12.266 --> 56:14.266 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% With good highways near by, Kittery 56:14.266 --> 56:16.100 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and Eliot residents can easily commute 56:16.100 --> 56:17.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% to jobs in Portsmouth and Dover 56:17.866 --> 56:20.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and even Portland, Manchester, and Boston. 56:20.600 --> 56:23.300 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% Prime, open land no longer farmed or hayed 56:23.300 --> 56:25.366 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% becomes ripe for residential development. 56:27.100 --> 56:28.466 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% What happened to those other farms 56:28.466 --> 56:30.500 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% on Wilson and Goodwin roads? 56:30.500 --> 56:32.300 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Some farmers worked until they died 56:32.300 --> 56:34.166 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% or got too old to work the long hours 56:34.166 --> 56:36.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% necessary to maintain the farm. 56:36.500 --> 56:38.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% If there were no family members to carry on 56:38.333 --> 56:40.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% then the farmer's family sold off the cows 56:40.800 --> 56:42.566 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% and the farm closed. 56:42.566 --> 56:44.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Other farmers, perhaps tired of the long hours 56:44.933 --> 56:46.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and low pay just gave up farming 56:46.466 --> 56:48.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and in many cases, went to work 56:48.500 --> 56:50.933 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. 56:50.933 --> 56:53.100 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% The Pearson Farm lasted more than 56:53.100 --> 56:56.033 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% half a century, but it too finally ended. 56:56.033 --> 56:57.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Its fields sold to other farmers 56:57.866 --> 57:00.766 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and its milking shed became a machine shop. 57:00.766 --> 57:03.066 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% Nelson Pearson Jr. is not optimistic 57:03.066 --> 57:05.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% about the future of dairy farming in Maine. 57:05.700 --> 57:10.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - It really started, earlier, I mean a small 57:10.266 --> 57:13.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% 10 cow, 12 cow operation replaced by 20 cows. 57:13.900 --> 57:15.233 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% Everybody said you got 20 cows 57:15.233 --> 57:17.933 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% you can make a living, so they had 20 cows 57:17.933 --> 57:20.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and then they went, they said well it was 32 57:20.566 --> 57:24.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% was the magic number, so people worked the 32, 57:24.666 --> 57:27.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% other ones dropped out, and then of course the 57:29.366 --> 57:33.000 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% Boat Tank pickup came and was quite an investment 57:33.000 --> 57:37.200 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% to most farms and then there was a 57:38.566 --> 57:43.400 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% and equipment changed, faster, more expensive equipment 57:43.400 --> 57:48.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% plus help and it slowly couldn't keep up. 57:50.100 --> 57:52.833 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% People kept dropping out and an awful lotta 57:53.900 --> 57:55.400 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% people that were dairy and they slowly 57:55.400 --> 57:59.200 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% fell by the wayside, well now there's only a few left. 57:59.200 --> 58:01.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - The farming community here in Northern 58:01.100 --> 58:03.900 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% New England, there were many more farms, 58:03.900 --> 58:07.933 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% now there are, the number's a lot less 58:07.933 --> 58:09.933 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% but the number of cattle probably 58:09.933 --> 58:12.066 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% is the same or even more. 58:12.066 --> 58:15.833 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% When I got out of veterinary college in '66, 58:15.833 --> 58:18.733 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% probably the average number of cows 58:18.733 --> 58:21.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% on the dairy farm was 25 or 30. 58:21.433 --> 58:24.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% The smallest farm that I take care of now 58:24.133 --> 58:29.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% milks 65 and I have several that milk 500. 58:30.266 --> 58:34.066 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% I have many that milk a hundred to 200. 58:34.066 --> 58:36.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Here at the Johnson Farm, I mean 58:36.666 --> 58:39.566 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% back in '66 they were probably milking 58:39.566 --> 58:43.400 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% 40 cows, now they milk 99, so for every farm 58:43.400 --> 58:45.666 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% that went out, the other farms expanded 58:45.666 --> 58:48.900 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% and so the number of cattle probably 58:48.900 --> 58:51.400 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% hasn't changed really much of any. 58:51.400 --> 58:54.266 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% Today, I will make four stops. 58:54.266 --> 58:58.433 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% In 1966, a normal day perhaps was 12 stops. 58:58.433 --> 59:00.900 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% - [Narrator] Fred Schultz has a passion for farming. 59:00.900 --> 59:02.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% He enjoys working with the cows 59:02.400 --> 59:04.633 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and producing fields of high quality corn, 59:04.633 --> 59:06.733 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% hay and alfalfa. 59:06.733 --> 59:08.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% His children have other careers, 59:08.166 --> 59:10.033 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% so the farm likely will end when Fred 59:10.033 --> 59:12.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% is no longer able to manage it. 59:12.166 --> 59:14.400 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% He has no plans for the farm's future. 59:16.966 --> 59:19.666 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% - Well right now, it would go to my wife 59:19.666 --> 59:23.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and she would probably, she would no doubt 59:23.400 --> 59:28.433 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% sell off the cows and in concert with 59:29.600 --> 59:32.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% my four other children, I've got four children 59:32.666 --> 59:36.300 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% that have good judgment, they're all adults now and 59:37.400 --> 59:39.566 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% they're all competent but none of them 59:40.700 --> 59:43.166 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% have any interest in, well my son would 59:43.166 --> 59:45.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% like to see it stay a farm, but 59:46.500 --> 59:49.666 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% when you combine that with the 59:50.800 --> 59:53.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% necessity to do something with this 59:53.133 --> 59:56.800 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% because you know, a place once someone stops caring 59:56.800 --> 59:59.066 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% for it, it starts to fragment. 01:00:03.233 --> 01:00:05.633 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% I know that if a person wants to have 01:00:05.633 --> 01:00:08.466 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% a dairy farm here, you have to have 01:00:08.466 --> 01:00:11.733 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% the person with the mindset and the skills to do it. 01:00:11.733 --> 01:00:16.000 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Especially the mindset because a person 01:00:16.000 --> 01:00:19.400 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% needs to be feels responsible for these animals 01:00:19.400 --> 01:00:22.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% an empathy for them and enjoyment from them. 01:00:29.166 --> 01:00:30.466 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% - [Narrator] Dave Leavitt cares for 01:00:30.466 --> 01:00:33.500 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% his fields like a golf course greens keeper. 01:00:33.500 --> 01:00:35.900 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% He has been at it for more than 50 years 01:00:35.900 --> 01:00:37.800 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% but each time he hays requires at least 01:00:37.800 --> 01:00:39.500 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% five trips across the fields, 01:00:39.500 --> 01:00:41.966 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% usually on hot, sunny days. 01:00:41.966 --> 01:00:44.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Even driving the tractor is hard work. 01:00:44.133 --> 01:00:45.900 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% Often he cuts his fields three times 01:00:45.900 --> 01:00:47.200 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% in the season. 01:00:47.200 --> 01:00:48.733 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% What will happen to the farm when he is 01:00:48.733 --> 01:00:50.233 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% no longer here to manage it? 01:00:51.466 --> 01:00:55.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - My feelings and maybe not my wife's feelings 01:00:56.800 --> 01:00:58.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% completely, but if something happened to me 01:00:58.533 --> 01:01:01.233 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% 'cause she would own the farm, if something 01:01:01.233 --> 01:01:02.533 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% happened to both of us, it would be 01:01:02.533 --> 01:01:05.100 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% divided up among our four children equally 01:01:05.100 --> 01:01:08.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% in some method, probably have to survey it 01:01:08.000 --> 01:01:09.633 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% and give em each a part of it 01:01:09.633 --> 01:01:11.300 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% 'cause we gave em the thing as a whole, 01:01:11.300 --> 01:01:12.366 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% they'd fight over it. 01:01:14.700 --> 01:01:19.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I don't know if there's a future for it 01:01:19.200 --> 01:01:21.733 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% as far as agriculture, I think probably 01:01:21.733 --> 01:01:24.600 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% more recreational and I've got a couple 01:01:24.600 --> 01:01:28.866 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% of kids that are somewhat interested in that and 01:01:29.933 --> 01:01:31.200 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% that's kinda what we 01:01:33.466 --> 01:01:36.933 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% are looking at right now, but I don't wanna do 01:01:36.933 --> 01:01:39.466 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% anything to it that would tie their hands. 01:01:39.466 --> 01:01:42.233 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% When I received it, I had the freedom 01:01:42.233 --> 01:01:44.033 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% to do what I wanted with it, you have to 01:01:44.033 --> 01:01:47.966 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% make the changes that come along in life 01:01:47.966 --> 01:01:50.733 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% and I would want the same for them. 01:01:50.733 --> 01:01:52.200 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% That they could do what they thought 01:01:52.200 --> 01:01:54.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% they had to do to make it pay and make it gold. 01:01:55.700 --> 01:01:57.466 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Whether any one of em could make a living 01:01:57.466 --> 01:01:59.733 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% on it without any outside income, I don't know. 01:02:05.100 --> 01:02:07.266 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Every farmer wants his farmer to continue 01:02:07.266 --> 01:02:09.000 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% wants somebody in the family to run it, 01:02:09.000 --> 01:02:10.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% want it to succeed, especially when you have 01:02:10.766 --> 01:02:12.266 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% a herd of registered Holsteins, you hope 01:02:12.266 --> 01:02:14.466 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% they'll take it over, they can keep breeding 01:02:14.466 --> 01:02:19.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% the cattle and continue, but in this area 01:02:20.600 --> 01:02:23.100 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% it just isn't easy to stay farming. 01:02:24.633 --> 01:02:26.700 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% - So like I say, I have enjoyed it, 01:02:26.700 --> 01:02:28.466 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% I don't wanna leave it, I wanna stay here 01:02:28.466 --> 01:02:32.000 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% the rest of my life, it's really a nice place to live. 01:02:32.000 --> 01:02:34.600 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% (somber music) 01:02:43.800 --> 01:02:45.033 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% - [Narrator] For Richard Johnson, 01:02:45.033 --> 01:02:46.366 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% the continuation of the family farm 01:02:46.366 --> 01:02:47.900 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% has been difficult. 01:02:47.900 --> 01:02:49.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% He was a partner with his father 01:02:49.333 --> 01:02:52.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and an older brother, but Chester died in 2007 01:02:52.533 --> 01:02:54.633 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and the brother wanted out of farming, 01:02:54.633 --> 01:02:57.533 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% although he remained a part-owner of the property. 01:02:57.533 --> 01:03:00.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% That left Richard alone to operate the farm. 01:03:00.266 --> 01:03:03.333 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% Richard loves farming and he loves the farm land. 01:03:03.333 --> 01:03:05.200 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% To settle financial issues and preserve 01:03:05.200 --> 01:03:07.533 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% the farm for the future, Richard has begun working 01:03:07.533 --> 01:03:10.333 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% with Kittery Land Trust to sell the development rights 01:03:10.333 --> 01:03:12.566 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and create an agricultural easement. 01:03:12.566 --> 01:03:14.333 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% The process is complicated and will take 01:03:14.333 --> 01:03:15.666 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% several years to complete. 01:03:15.666 --> 01:03:17.333 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% The farm includes streams that flow 01:03:17.333 --> 01:03:19.433 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% into Spruce Creek and the York River 01:03:19.433 --> 01:03:21.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and it has acres of both fields and forests. 01:03:21.700 --> 01:03:24.033 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% As time passes, this land will remain 01:03:24.033 --> 01:03:26.866 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and important natural resource for Kittery. 01:03:26.866 --> 01:03:28.333 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% - This is kinda like a dream come true, 01:03:28.333 --> 01:03:33.333 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% this conservation easement, I've always fought along 01:03:34.500 --> 01:03:37.933 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% the way growing up to not let somebody 01:03:37.933 --> 01:03:40.666 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% build here or buy that or put a road down 01:03:40.666 --> 01:03:43.000 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% through the fields or whatever, I always wanted 01:03:43.000 --> 01:03:46.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% to maintain the original acres. 01:03:46.100 --> 01:03:50.100 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% If this went to houses, I think it would have been 01:03:50.100 --> 01:03:52.166 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% a domino effect going right up the road 01:03:52.166 --> 01:03:56.033 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% with all the other field land that the 01:03:56.033 --> 01:03:58.266 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% other farmer's have, but hopefully, 01:03:58.266 --> 01:03:59.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% with this conservation easement, 01:03:59.733 --> 01:04:01.400 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% it might be just the opposite, 01:04:01.400 --> 01:04:04.300 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% time will tell and I'm sure later on 01:04:04.300 --> 01:04:06.633 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% down the road, it will be the best thing 01:04:06.633 --> 01:04:07.733 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% that ever happened. 01:04:09.900 --> 01:04:12.400 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% - To get back to your grass roots 01:04:12.400 --> 01:04:14.233 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% is something that is necessary 01:04:14.233 --> 01:04:16.333 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% for all of us, I mean you can't forget 01:04:16.333 --> 01:04:18.800 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% what came before because otherwise, 01:04:18.800 --> 01:04:20.666 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% what are we gonna have in the future? 01:04:20.666 --> 01:04:22.633 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Somebody's gotta farm, somebody's gotta fish, 01:04:22.633 --> 01:04:25.766 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% somebody's gotta cut lumber and do 01:04:25.766 --> 01:04:27.666 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% those kinds of things that are basic, 01:04:27.666 --> 01:04:32.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% but very necessary, we can't live without that. 01:04:33.733 --> 01:04:35.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% It just, it's so beautiful, I just can't 01:04:35.500 --> 01:04:38.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% imagine seeing it turned into anything else. 01:04:38.566 --> 01:04:41.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And we wanna protect that beauty 01:04:41.500 --> 01:04:43.966 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and I'd rather see it growing something 01:04:43.966 --> 01:04:45.566 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% than growing houses. 01:04:45.566 --> 01:04:46.900 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% - [Narrator] Wilson and Goodwin Roads 01:04:46.900 --> 01:04:48.733 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% bisect a large portion of the remaining 01:04:48.733 --> 01:04:51.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% open space in Kittery and Eliot. 01:04:51.566 --> 01:04:54.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Along this winding road, for several centuries, 01:04:54.000 --> 01:04:55.733 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% people have cared for their land as 01:04:55.733 --> 01:04:59.066 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% they grew crops, hayed fields, raised animals 01:04:59.066 --> 01:05:01.333 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% and carefully cut their wood lots. 01:05:01.333 --> 01:05:04.300 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% When we began to film this story in 2009, 01:05:04.300 --> 01:05:06.366 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% the future of the open land along Route 101 01:05:06.366 --> 01:05:09.800 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% was unknown, now the recent decision 01:05:09.800 --> 01:05:12.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% of the Johnsons, ensures that their undeveloped 01:05:12.133 --> 01:05:14.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% fields and woodlands will always border 01:05:14.133 --> 01:05:15.633 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% at least part of the road. 01:05:16.966 --> 01:05:19.633 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% (machine whirs) 01:05:25.633 --> 01:05:27.733 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Land protection can happen quickly, 01:05:27.733 --> 01:05:29.466 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% but farm land lost to development 01:05:29.466 --> 01:05:31.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% can never be reclaimed. 01:05:31.566 --> 01:05:34.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Eliot's open space plan is calling attention 01:05:34.000 --> 01:05:36.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% to the need for land protection. 01:05:36.166 --> 01:05:38.566 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Organizations such as the Kittery Land Trust 01:05:38.566 --> 01:05:40.133 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% and the Great Works Land Trust 01:05:40.133 --> 01:05:42.700 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% provide a means for individuals and communities 01:05:42.700 --> 01:05:45.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% to permanently set aside important and threatened acreage 01:05:45.966 --> 01:05:48.833 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% for environmental protection, water resources, 01:05:48.833 --> 01:05:51.500 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% habitat preservation and scenic beauty. 01:05:53.400 --> 01:05:56.400 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% These historical farms may be forgotten in time, 01:05:56.400 --> 01:05:58.000 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% but the preservation of their acres 01:05:58.000 --> 01:06:00.366 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% will be a continual reminder of the foresight 01:06:00.366 --> 01:06:02.800 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% of the people in the 21st century 01:06:02.800 --> 01:06:05.433 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and maybe, just maybe, many years from now, 01:06:05.433 --> 01:06:07.733 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% others will come to these fertile lands 01:06:07.733 --> 01:06:10.000 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% and, like the 20th century Pearsons 01:06:10.000 --> 01:06:12.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and Johnsons, they will bring the old farms 01:06:12.233 --> 01:06:16.066 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% back to life, continuing a tradition along Route 101. 01:06:22.300 --> 01:06:24.866 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% - [Deidre] One, two, three, four. 01:06:24.866 --> 01:06:28.366 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% ("Dig" by Deidre Randall) 01:06:37.533 --> 01:06:38.700 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% ♪ Dig 01:06:38.700 --> 01:06:40.033 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% ♪ Dig 01:06:40.033 --> 01:06:43.400 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% ♪ Down in the soil 01:06:43.400 --> 01:06:46.533 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% ♪ Almost time to till the fields ♪ 01:06:46.533 --> 01:06:50.366 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% ♪ So you change the tractor's oil ♪ 01:06:50.366 --> 01:06:53.100 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% ♪ Down in your heart 01:06:53.100 --> 01:06:56.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% ♪ Down where you steep 01:06:56.566 --> 01:07:00.100 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% ♪ You have always known 01:07:00.100 --> 01:07:03.500 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% ♪ How to dig deep 01:07:03.500 --> 01:07:06.600 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% ♪ The corn goes in 01:07:06.600 --> 01:07:09.933 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% ♪ Comes up green 01:07:09.933 --> 01:07:13.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ♪ Wind shakes the tassels high 01:07:13.266 --> 01:07:16.966 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% ♪ As far as the eye can see 01:07:16.966 --> 01:07:20.266 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% ♪ Down in your heart 01:07:20.266 --> 01:07:23.500 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% ♪ Down where you know 01:07:23.500 --> 01:07:26.800 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% ♪ You have got a way 01:07:26.800 --> 01:07:31.800 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% ♪ Of making things grow 01:07:32.700 --> 01:07:37.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ♪ It's been your family's land 01:07:37.766 --> 01:07:42.266 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% ♪ For 200 years 01:07:46.833 --> 01:07:50.700 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% ♪ Who'll be next in line 01:07:50.700 --> 01:07:55.666 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% ♪ To keep the farm 01:07:58.600 --> 01:08:01.600 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% ♪ Heavy hoof 01:08:01.600 --> 01:08:04.900 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% ♪ Copper bell 01:08:04.900 --> 01:08:08.333 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% ♪ You raise them up 01:08:08.333 --> 01:08:12.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% ♪ You treat them well 01:08:12.166 --> 01:08:17.166 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% ♪ Up at the farm it's three a.m. ♪ 01:08:18.766 --> 01:08:23.400 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% ♪ That Jersey Delilah is calving again ♪ 01:08:54.366 --> 01:08:57.266 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% ♪ Earth and land 01:08:57.266 --> 01:09:00.566 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% ♪ Land and sky 01:09:00.566 --> 01:09:04.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% ♪ Once it's gone won't get it back ♪ 01:09:04.133 --> 01:09:08.400 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% ♪ No matter what you try 01:09:08.400 --> 01:09:11.600 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% ♪ Down in your heart 01:09:11.600 --> 01:09:15.633 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% ♪ Down where you steep 01:09:15.633 --> 01:09:18.433 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% ♪ You have always known 01:09:18.433 --> 01:09:23.433 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% ♪ How to dig deep 01:09:24.333 --> 01:09:28.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ♪ It's been your family's land 01:09:28.266 --> 01:09:33.233 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% ♪ For 100 years 01:09:37.966 --> 01:09:42.500 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% ♪ Who'll be next in line 01:09:42.500 --> 01:09:45.400 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% ♪ To keep the farm