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“The Little Back Road Farm”: 194 pages of photos and farm memories showcase resilience and promise for the future of agriculture, a grounding force for generations to come.  Three generations of Poestenkill, New York’s Clayton Reichard family reveal the evolution of Hilldale Farm’s daily work through decades of power by horses to work achieved by horsepower. What is it that sustained agricultural productivity on one small farm for over 100 years? What is it that made a family farm so central to the community? What forces still shape the character of its people? What prompted Fred Reichard to carefully pen his memoirs and record his gentle observations of Poestenkill’s villagers he met as a teenager peddling milk? Read how working his farm’s soil inspired his soul to write poetry. From stories crafted by 20 family and friends of Clayton, Esther, and Fred Reichard, readers will laugh about grandson Kirt’s hot molasses bath; cringe over Esther’s dangerous driving; and revel in Ken Gypson’s chronicle of restoration work on the 1881 farmhouse.

Purchase the book from the Troy Book Makers at 518-689-1083 

at Capital Agway - 1333 NY RT 7, Troy

or contact us to order a copy.

All proceeds from book sales support the Hilldale Farm Foundation.