Thread: Down Economy: America’s ‘Oldest Family Farm’ For Sale

Tuttle family farm: 378 years of contiguous family ownership and operation

Down Economy: America’s ‘Oldest Family Farm’ Up For Sale

By Warner Todd Huston
Tuesday, August 3, 2010

In a sign of these dismal times, the oldest family farm in America is up for sale because its owners just cannot survive this down economy. After 378 years of contiguous family ownership and operation, the Tuttle family of Dover, New Hampshire is selling its 134-acre farm.

Founded in 1632 by John Tuttle fresh off the boat from the Old World, the Tuttle family farm has moved on with the times, improved and changed to continue operating. But, at long last, this economy is too much for them to bear.

Curiously, the Associated Press http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100801/ap_ ... amily_farm worked very hard to downplay the economic side of this argument in its coverage and instead played up the fact that the Tuttles are aging and have decided to discourage their own sons from taking up the family business. The APs story also turned the focus away from the bad economy and toward blaming WalMart and the “growth of supermarket chains.â€

Taxed out of existance. This is horrable.