Part of the fun of Butternut is that you can taste the fruit as you pick. We have boxes around the farm so customers who enjoy our fruit out on the farm, before paying, will be able to contribute to these boxes and “clear their conscience”. We are still deciding on a charity for the 2022 season.

Jane Swift was the pie maker at Butternut Farm when we bought the business in 2005. We are so fortunate she decided to stay on and continue her job. During those early years she became part of our family, a steadying figure that made pies a couple of mornings a week in the farm house kitchen. Often there before we woke and eager to help a young family through it's mornings, she even filled in as grandma at one of our daughter’s school Grandparent Day. Although we lost Jane in December of 2009, she will forever be part of the Butternut Farm family.

Ever since her son Brian, was lost to cancer, Jane was director of the Brian Swift Scholarship Fund in her home town of Durham NH. We would like to honor Jane and support her effort in offering scholarship to exceptional students in that community.

One dollar for every pie sold here at Butternut Farm will forever be contributed to this fund.

Especially during apple season, excess fruit is harvested by volunteers and farm employees to donate to local soup kitchens. Apples are a bit firmer and store much better than the early season fruits we grow, which makes them a realistic option for donating. These apples should reach families in our local communities in good shape, hopefully making a nutritious impacts on their diet, instead of going to waste here at the farm. We hope to grow this pipeline as the years go on.
If you are a coordinator for a gleaning group and would like to talk, please e-mail us!