From Our Farm

to Your Table

Owners: 3 generations of family

Phyllis Sherman Kathy Sherman Jeff Hatch Michelle Dutton

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Mission statementSherman Farm’s mission is to produce excellent quality and great tasting farm food products in an efficient and respectful manner. We will produce our products in the most progressive way possible with the utmost respect for ourselves, our employees, our customers and our land. Important to us is our ability to honestly educate the consumer on the methods and philosophy of producing these products.

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Location: 2679 East Conway Road, Conway, NH

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Type of businessSherman farm annually grows right around 60 acres of vegetables, raises over 40 head of beef cattle, raises over 30 pigs for pork sales, and sells and delivers mile in the old fashion glass bottles. Open Year Round

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Come Experience FreshFarm Products: Fruits and Vegetables Milk Meat Bakery The Cutting Garden Specialty Items

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This year, Sherman Farm began a future shares program, in

which customers pay for $100 each and receive a futures

debit card worth $115, which they can spend in the farm

stand anytime on any product.

CSACommunity Supported Agriculture

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Go Get Lost in The Maize12 acres of fun await you at The Maize.

This will be the 6th season.

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The haunted mazeThe recent addition of the Corn MAiZE has stirred up the activity and some claim to see Duncan tending the crops and swinging his scythe and some claim to hear gruesome screams that can only come from the insane or from a murdered soul still fighting to find peace.

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Sherman Farm presents Team American Chunker!

Sunday Sept 30th 2012 from 10am to 2pm. Team Chunker will be blasting pumpkins into the sky.

World Class Punkin Chunkin right here in the Mt. Washington

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Participates in:A “Local Farm to Table” EventStarted in 2008 by the Mount Washington Valley Chamber of Commerce unites farmers practicing sustainable agriculture. It is hosted by a local farm where guests get a behind the scenes tour while enjoying the local farm and best chef’s in the area samplings. Proceeds are donated to the Mt. Washington Valley Green Team, a group whose purpose is to facilitate, educate, promote, & encourage sustainable green business practices. It has also started funding the Saco Valley Farm to Table Scholarship established by the Fields on the Saco Board. In order to help educate the next generation and prepare them to sustain these important fields this scholarship will be awarded to a deserving student majoring in an agricultural related field or culinary arts.

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Sherman Farm’s historyBeginning in1964 the farm started as a small dairy farm and evolved through the 70’s and 80’s growing fruits and vegetables to be sold at a farmer’s market and at the farm.

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In the 1990’s Kathy became a full

partner and now manages the operation of the farm.  At her side are children Michele Hatch Dutton and Jeff Hatch and most importantly Phyllis helps with the day to day operations.

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Today the farm grows approximately sixty acres of vegetables, has a 10 acre corn maze operating for six weeks in the fall, raises over forty head of Angus cross Beef cattle and 30 pigs for pork sales, hauls and delivers milk in glass bottles, and has the farm stand which sells all the product raised on the farm is open daily year round. 

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Farm FAQS Q? Is the meat butchered at the farm? A. No. All our beef and pork is processed at the

Windham Butcher Shop in Windham Maine. It is a USDA facility with an inspector on site. Our meats are minimally processed meaning nothing “extra” is added. No dyes, no water, no chemicals. Each cut is vacuum packaged and labeled. The beef is dry aged for 2 weeks before it is cut. This aging method develops flavor. Large beef packing companies kill, cut, package and ship their beef in the same day.

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Q? Why is there high fructose corn syrup in the flavored milks?

A. The response to this question comes from Smiling Hill Farm, the processor for our milk.

Smiling Hill Farm DOES NOT use corn syrup as an ingredient, PERIOD. Unfortunately, because of the pervasiveness of corn syrup in the food supply, it shows up as an ingredient in an ingredient that we use. The coffee and chocolate milks we produce contains trace amounts of corn syrup. The corn syrup is added to the coffee syrup to even the viscosity for pouring, as a preservative/extender and to keep the product from separating. As you are aware, corn syrup is used because it is cheap, readily available and because the FDA classifies it as a “natural” product. Our other flavored milks (Strawberry, Blueberry, Vanilla Creme, Banana, Orange Creme) do not contain any trace amounts of corn syrup.

Please be assured that we utilize ONLY pure cane sugar as a sweeting agent and corn syrup is not found on our farm. We use only cane sugar to sweeten our flavored milks and very small amount of corn syrup is present in the coffee syrup that we source. We continue to investigate alternative sources for our ingredients and look forward to the day when every ingredient we purchase will be made without corn syrup.

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Q? Are your vegetables organic?

A. No, our products are not organically grown BUT are grown with minimal use of sprays, small amounts of commercial fertilizers and with the utmost respect for the land and environment. Soil tests help us determine the needed nutrients for the crops. Mechanical cultivation practices are used with herbicides used only when a crop will be adversely affected by weeds. IPM methods (Integrated Pest Management) are used farm wide which means pests (insects, weeds or fungus) are monitored visually or with traps and treatment only occurs when a crop is adversely affected.

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Does your meat or milk have artificial growth hormones?

A. Our animals do NOT receive artificial growth hormones or rBGH. We feel we use sound management practices such as good quality feeds and a comfortable environment that our animals grow and produce to their best natural abilities.

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Does your meat or milk have antibiotics in them?

A. No. Antibiotics are never in the milk we produce for processing nor are there antibiotics ever in our nation’s milk supply. All milk from every farm is tested for antibiotics before it is processed. The meat does not have antibiotics in it either. None of their feed has antibiotics either.

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Do your animals get antibiotics?

Yes an animal that becomes sick will be treated with an antibiotic if the illness warrants its use. Just like our children, when an animal has an infection (most common are mammary or respiratory infections) we treat them. We are firm believers that milk from a healthy cow will taste much better than milk from a sick cow. If an animal who is milking has been treated, her milk is separated and not put into the tank. Animals slaughtered for meat have to be clear of antibiotics for 30 to 60 days depending on the medicine.

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Q?Is your milk pasteurized? Do you sell raw milk?

A. All the milk processed for our glass bottles is pasteurized at a USDA inspected milk plant. It is not ultrapasteurized like the larger milk companies and is done in small batches. We do not sell raw milk.

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Q? Why does your milk taste better than other companies?

A. Our milk is high quality from one herd of cows. It is bottled in reusable glass bottles which certainly keeps the quality at its best. Large companies have many farms comingled and the quality is different at every farm. Poor quality milk is mixed with high quality milk. The quality of the milk is a big factor in the taste of the milk.

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What People are Saying“I count Sherman Farm as one of the most valuable resources this area has. The milk, the produce, the meat, the baked goods, the flowers! What’s not to like? It’s great to be able to drink delicious milk, peel vegetables and prepare meat without wondering how many miles and how many hands my food has been through before getting to my kitchen. It’s locally grown by a family who not only cares about quality but cares about the people it’s going to. Phyllis and/or Kathy are always there and willing to answer questions and talk shop. Phyllis once even taught me how to be a bee so I could help my pumpkin vine bear fruit!”

Dawn Ferguson,Lovell, Maine

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Website of Sherman Farm www.shermanfarmnh.com