Gardening

Home of the Week: Where farm to table is just a matter of feet

The three-bedroom N.H. Cape needs finishing touches, but the 2.7-acre farm is ready for goats, chickens, pigs, seedlings, and its next owner.

The kitchen has an island with seating for two and a beadboard ceiling.

By John R. Ellement

February 28, 2024

4 minutes to read

Farm: 619 Fullam Hill Road, Fitzwilliam, N.H.

$379,000

Style Cape

Year built 1977

Square feet 1,820

Bedrooms 3

Baths 2 full, 1 half

Water/Sewer Private

Taxes $6,175 (2023)

Need a place for the kids to hang out?

Our Home of the Week offers the ideal spot for human kids and the goat variety. There’s a goat house, a pig pen, and a shelter for poultry, too, and a 2.7-acre farm to explore in New Hampshire.

If your own farm-to-table setup is your dream, take note that the current owners were able to “grow 70 percent” of their food. The farm offers maple (30 taps), apple, Asian pear, cherry, and pawpaw trees, as well as blackberry, goji, elderberry, and raspberry bushes for salads and snacking. And for the dinner plate, take your cue from the owners, who grew potatoes, beans, garlic, greens, and onions in the crop garden. Add flavor from the herb garden. It’s all organic.

Store your crops in the 144-square-foot root cellar/pantry, and get your seeds started in a hoop greenhouse.

The farm not only calls for a gardener, but it needs someone to complete the final touches, like the exterior siding.

A driveway on the right side of the house leads to the farm spaces and the porch entry into the heart of the home: the kitchen. The island, which anchors the 240-square-foot space, comes with a finished plywood counter, seating for two, and three pendant lights with brass-toned shades. The ceiling is beadboard, and the flooring is ceramic tile. The cabinets are white, and the countertops are granite. The kitchen pantry is 6-feet deep, ready for the vegetables you pickle and jar.

An arched doorway leads to the 184-square-foot dining room, a very sunny spot with eight double-hung windows. The space also offers recessed lighting and beadboard on the walls. For now, the flooring is only the painted plywood subfloor.

From here, a hallway flows past a half bath with a porcelain vessel sink atop a dark vanity, cherry blossom marble flooring, and beadboard wainscoting and into a family room that runs the depth of the house. At nearly 500 square feet, it’s the biggest room. The pellet stove, which rests atop a stone hearth, is the focal point. A faux stone chimney with a wood mantel serves as the backdrop. Light from a bow window, six double-hung windows, and French doors to the back deck casts a glow on the engineered hardwood flooring.

The wall on the stairway to the upper floor is clad in shipping pallet wood. The ceiling is metal roofing recycled from a 1920s barn.

The second floor holds the primary suite, two secondary bedrooms, and the main full bath. The secondary bedrooms range from 146 to 222 square feet. The smaller one has two windows, a wide closet, recessed lighting, and three-tone oak flooring with marble accents. The larger bedroom is being used as a laundry room with a deep sink, a skylight, three windows, and two types of flooring: The washer and dryer sit on recycled marble tile, while the rest of the room is hardwood.

These bedrooms share a full bath with a tub/shower combination, a single vanity, white subway tile halfway up the walls, a marble shower surround, and Ming green marble flooring from a Habitat for Humanity ReStore.

The third bedroom is also the laundry room.

The guest bath offers a tub-shower combination and a Ming green marble floor.

Like the living room, the primary suite (214 square feet) spans the depth of the house and has its own standout features. The flooring is oak with an inlay, and there are two closets and a bump-out with a window seat.

The en-suite bath has an engaging pedigree. The shower-only space features a handcrafted double vanity made out of a pine slab from Haverhill, Mass., and the shower floor is stone from Mad River in Vermont. The shower surround is made up of blue glass tile, but the flooring is gray linen ceramic tile.

The primary suite spans the depth of the house.

The primary suite sinks were installed in a pine slab from Haverhill, Mass.

The primary suite shower is clad in white subway and blue glass tiles.

The primary suite bath features a shower floor the family installed using rocks from the Mad River in Vermont.

The walkout basement is unfinished.

Marge Badois of Keller Williams Realty Metropolitan in Bedford, N.H., is the listing agent for the farm. As of press time, an offer on the home was pending.

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