This is such a remarkable, yet sad, tale.
Members of the last generation descended from one John Tuttle of New Hampshire are putting the family farm up for sale. The farm is reportedly the oldest continuously operated family farm in America. It operated 378 years. But they couldn't keep it going in the way it needed.
"We've been here for 40 years, doing what we love to do," Lucy Tuttle, 65, who runs the 134-acre farm with brother Will, tells the Associated Press. "But we're not able to work to our full capacity any longer, unfortunately."
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AP Photo credit: Jim Cole
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