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 In
2005, Spring Ledge Farm, a family operation started and grown by John and Sue
Clough for 30 years, was purchased by Astrid and Greg Berger. Located in
the center of New London, we continue the tradition of high quality
products and service. We offer ornamental plants, fresh vegetables and
strawberries in season. We now grow bedding plants in thirteen greenhouses
and fruits and vegetables on over twenty-five acres of land. Our farm
stand opens in mid-April and closes just before Christmas.
Our
growing season begins in January when we sow seeds for a variety of
greenhouse crops including new and unusual cultivars, award-winning
perennial plants, and old favorites. We offer these plants in packs of
four and in finished containers from spring into summer. Our goal is to
provide quality plants and offer information and advice to gardeners of
all abilities.
Vegetable
picking begins in June with greenhouse tomatoes seeded during the snows of
February and grown on beds of compost-enriched soil. The strawberry
harvest begins in late June, with heaping quarts of sweet, juicy berries
at the stand while pick your own is available at our Pleasant Lake Farm at
the end of Pleasant Lake in New London.
As
the season progresses, our fields provide salad crops such as lettuce,
mesclun mix, radishes, scallions and herbs as well as all the traditional
vegetables. Most crops are picked every day and are always fresh from our
fields to the customers tables. We offer 2,400 feet of cutting flowers in
our pick-your-own flower patch, with 230 varieties to choose from. The
sweet corn harvest begins in late July and continues throughout the summer
and into the fall. Our corn is always fresh, as it is picked daily.
The
vegetable season continues into the fall, and that season also features
our own mums, pumpkins
and local apples and cider. Our mum production provides dozens of
cultivars, colors, shapes and sizes. As the holidays approaches, we offer
Christmas plants, wreaths and N.H. grown fir trees.
Our
farm's growth and success has been highly dependent on the help of all the
crews here on the farm. We are also grateful for, and dependent on,
local consumers and families who choose our farmstand for their fresh
plants and produce. Thank you.
Spring Ledge Farm is
a New Hampshire 'Farm of Distinction'. Given by the N.H. Dept. of
Agriculture, the award recognizes farms that do an outstanding job of
appealing to the non-farm public. We are open for self-guided tours during
regular business hours. (Please call ahead to make special arrangements
for groups).
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