Nation’s Oldest Family-Run Farm For Sale

After 11 generations and 378 years, the nation’s oldest family farm is going up for sale. The 138-acre Tuttle farm in Dover, N.H., was named after John Tuttle, who arrived from England in 1632. With a small land grant from King Charles I, he started a farm. More than three centuries later, Lucy Tuttle and her brother Will, who have worked the farm for 40 years, have grown weary, arthritic and battered by competition. They have even discouraged their children from taking over the farm and becoming generation 12 because they don’t want to weigh them down with debt. Read more.