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Year-round growing, brewing and milling at Lookout Farm in Natick and Clover Hill Farm in Gilbertville

We check out a new greenhouse restaurant in Natick then stop by a fifth-generation family farm in Hardwick

Year-round growing, brewing and milling at Lookout Farm in Natick and Clover Hill Farm in Gilbertville

We check out a new greenhouse restaurant in Natick then stop by a fifth-generation family farm in Hardwick

>> THESE 180 FARM TO ACRES HAVE ENDURED MANY WINTERS. >> IT IS ONE OF THE OLDEST, CONTINUOUSLY OPERATING FARMS IN THE UNITED STATES. >> LOOKOUT FARM DATES ALL THE WAY BACK TO 1651. DIFFERENT OWNERS KEPT IT GOING UNTIL 2005, WHEN THE BELKIN FAMILY SAVED TTHO E FARM FROM BANKRUPTCY. TODAY, LOOK OUT IS PRIMARILY A FRUIT FARM WITH 60,000 APPLE, PEACH, AND ASIAN PEAR TRS.EE THEY NEED CULTIVATION YEAR-ROU.ND >> 60,000 TREES. THAT IS ABOUT 1.2, 1.4 MILLION PRUNING CUTS A YEAR. AN AVERAGE OF 20 OR SO CUTS PER TREE. >> PRUNING IS DONE ONCE A YEAR WHEN WINTER TEMPERURATES BEGIN TO HARDEN THE TREES. >> ESSENTIALLY COME UP WITH ANY TYPEF O TREE, YOU WANT TO OPEN UP THE CANOPY, SO YOU WANT TO REMOVE THE UPWARD SHOOTS, SO THE DEADWOOD SO IT DOES NOT NEGATIVELY AFFECT THE FRUIT GROW.TH THIS ONE HAS TO GO. >> THE FARM'S SPWLRAING ORCHARD RESEMBLES A VINEYARD. >> THESE ARE APPLE TREES THE DESIGN, WHICH IS A FANCY WAY OF SAYING THEY GROW HORIZONTALLY RATHER THAN VERTICALLY. WE HAVE OUR OWN WATER PUMPING SYSTEM. WE CAN FEED THE BLOCKS OF WATER BY SECTION. >> SUCH METICULOUSNESS PAYS OFF DURING HARVEST TIME. SOME OF THIS FRUIT GOES STRAIGHT TO LOOK OUT FARM CIDERY AND BREWERY. >> TODAY WE ARE MAKING I,PA WHICH GOES INTO HERE. YOU LOOK INTO THE PORT HOLE, YOU CAN SEE THE GRAIN. >> MUCH OF WHAT IS PRODUCED CAN BE FOUND AT THE FARM'S NEW WINTERTIME RESTAURT.AN >> WHEN THE WEATHER STARTED TO GET COLDER, WE REPURPOSED A 15,000 FOOT GREENHOU. >> IT FEATURES CONTACTLESS DINING. CUSTOMERS ORDER AND FOOD RUNNERS BRING THE MEAL OVER. >> THIS IS BAKED BRIE WITH WALNUT AND CRANBERRY. >> COMFORT FOOD LIKE BURGERS, MAC & CHEESE, FRIED GREEN TOMATOES, AND DESSER.TS THE EXECUTIVE CHEF SAYS THE NEW VENTURE IS A BIG HIT. >> I JE OKTH WATE ARE KIND OF A UNICORN, BECAUSE IN THE MILEDD OF A PANDEMIC, FOR THINGS TO BE GOING SO WELL, IT IS A VERY UNIQUE SITUATION AND WE REALLY FOCUS ON GREAT QUALITY INGREDIENTS, USING AS MANY THINGS FROM THE FARM AS POSSIBLE WHEN THEY ARE IN SEASON. ♪ >> MORE THAN 7000 FARMS EXIST IN MASSACHUSETTS, ACCORDING TO THE STATE'S AGRILTCUURAL CENSUS. JUST A FEW, INCLUDING CLOVER HILL FARM IN HARDWICK, MASSACHUSETTS, HAVE BEEN FAMILY OWNED FOGER NERAONTIS. >> IF IT GETS INOU YR BLOOD THE RIGHT WAY, YOU DO NOT LEAVE. >> FOR FIVE GENERATIONS, TSHI MAN’S FAMILY HAS WORKED THOUSANDS OF ACRES. HE HAS WORKED ALONGSIDE HIS FATHER. >> MY FAMILY FIRST SETTLED HERE ON MARCH 13, 1888, WHICHS I HISTORICALLY THE DAY OF A HUGE, HUGE SNOTO.RMWS THE BLIZZARD OF 1888. MY FAMILY CAME HERE PROBABLY WITH A HORSE AND WAGON. THEY STOPPED HERE BECAUSE THE SOIL WAS GREAT. >> IN RECENT DECADES, THE FOCUS WAS DAIRY FARMING. >> FARMERS ARE FOOLISHLY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT EVERYTHING. WE JUST COULD NOT MAKE MONEY AT .IT >> CLOVER HILL BUILT A COUNTRY STORE TO SELL THEIR GOODS YE-RAROUND, FROM MEAT TO EGGS. DURING THE EARLY DAYS OF THE PANDEMIC, BUSINESS WENT THROUGH THE ROOF. >> IT WAS AN EYE-OPENER FOMER , NOT REALIZING WHAT A BUMP IN THE ROAD IN THE FOOD CHAIN MNSEA FOR A LITTLE GUY LIKE US. A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE. >> DURING WINTER, THE FAMILY IS BUSY MAKING A STABLE PRODUCT. GRAIN. >> WE ARE OUT HERE EVERY DAY. THERE ARE NO DAYS OFF. WE HAVE TO FEED AND MAKE A GRAIN. -10, FOUR FEET OF SNOW, WIND IS BLOWING, WE ARE STILL FARMING. >> THEY GROW WHEAT, BARLEY, RYE, AND SOYBEANS. 500 TO 600 TONS OF GRAIN EACH YEAR. STOREDRA GIN IBLS ENDED TO MAKE FEED. >> THIS IS CHEAP GRAIN. YOU CAN SEE THE BARLEY, ETH CORN, AND DIFFERENT OTHER INGREDIENTS. WE HAVE A RECIPE WE FOLLOW FOR EACH DIFFERENT ANIMAL, AND WE MILL IT UP. GRAIN YOU BUY AT THE STORE CAN COME FM ROANYWHE.RE IT CAN BE MILLED MONTHS BEFORE YOU USE IT. THIS IS MILLED FSHRE. THE ANIMALS LOVE IT. >> STACKED HIGH IN THIS BARN, ONE OF MASSACHUSETTS’BIGGEST CROPS -- MASSACHUSETT’' BIGGEST CROPS HAY. , >> WE MAKE THREE DIFFERENT KINDS OF HAY IN THIS FARM. WE HAVA E GRASS THAT WE BALE WITH MOISTURE IN IT, AND IT PICKLES THE HAY AND MAKES IT REALLY EDIBLE. >> TO RUN FIVE GENERATIONS, THAT IS A STRETCH. TO HAVE EACH GENERATIOHAN VE THE DESIRE TO CONTINUE ON THIS LIFESTYLE -- IT IS NOT FOR EVERYBODY. TO SEE MY SON, OR OTHER FARMERS, SEE THEIR CHILDREN TAKE OVER THE BUSINESS, I AMIV LING THE DREAM. ♪ SHAYNA: BACK TO LOOK TOU FARM, A FUN FACT. IT IS THE LARGEST PRODUCER OF ASIAN PEARINS NEW ENGLAND. ANTHONY: THE GREENHOUSE RESTAURANT OPENED FOR THEIR SECOND SEASON AND WHEN
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Year-round growing, brewing and milling at Lookout Farm in Natick and Clover Hill Farm in Gilbertville

We check out a new greenhouse restaurant in Natick then stop by a fifth-generation family farm in Hardwick

How does Lookout Farm keep tens of thousands of fruit trees in tip-top shape every year? Trim them during winter — and while you're at it, create a new restaurant in a greenhouse.During winter, Clover Hill Farm makes hay and grain.

How does Lookout Farm keep tens of thousands of fruit trees in tip-top shape every year? Trim them during winter — and while you're at it, create a new restaurant in a greenhouse.

During winter, Clover Hill Farm makes hay and grain.

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