Members of the Pollard family have been working Ashland Farm since 1730.
Ashland Farms, New Braintree, Massachusetts
Ten Generations
Photographs taken with a bridge camera journaling nature and everyday life in Central Massachusetts and beyond.
Photographs taken with a bridge camera journaling nature and everyday life in Central Massachusetts and beyond.
Members of the Pollard family have been working Ashland Farm since 1730.
Ashland Farms, New Braintree, Massachusetts
7 more years until their 300th anniversary! Farm older than the US.
Yes, it’s pretty incredible to think about them beginning in 1730. Thanks for reminding me about the 300th!
Hope you are having a good summer, what with your good employment news!
-Julie
Thanks, Julie. Monarch rest stop season for their return trip (well, their grandflutterby’s) in our garden. I enjoy that immensely.
Yay! We “raised” Monarchs in my first grade classroom most years, and loved that moment when we set them free in the organic garden as we sang them a goofy/great song about flying to Mexico.
That sounds wonderful and memorable! I bet the kids remember it fondly.
That’s amazing longevity!
Don’t ya just love places like that? 😉
The first photo is sublime!
Wow, thank you! That’s high praise from a person of your stature. You made my day. 😉
I do like watermelons! 🍉 Those look fantastic.
Ah, summertime…. 😉
A fine photographic record of this impressive span of history
Thank you! A family farm started in 1730 is way old around here, but I imagine you day trippin’ around to medieval castles and such at the drop of a hat! 😉
Yes, Julie. we do have much of that. Our house, the original part built in the 1850s is comparatively modern
Wowsah! Impressive as well as beautiful.
My kind of place!
Wow! Amazing they could keep it in the family!
It was really fun to look around and think about their ancestors working the land!
One distant cousin lives in the house his great grandfather lived in in the later part of the 1800s. I thought that was cool. Imagine the ties people have to their land. These days the children do not always carry on the family legacy. For it to be passed on so long is amazing.