farmer kaya and family: the chester eastman homestead

Monday, June 22, 2009

the chester eastman homestead

this post has been hanging around as a draft forever so i figured i publish it. we miss our friends at the farm!

2 comments:

Arp said...: This looks really cool - where is the farm?; January 22, 2010 11:06 PM
jill said...: Its in nh on the border of maine. Its a small working farm, really cool place. We got milk there and they let us hang out and help/play w the animals; January 23, 2010 3:17 AM

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