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Northshore October 2025
Don Cox loves his life on Old Wild Farm in Haverhill. There he and his wife, Laura Scholten, work the land and are raising their new baby, who was born on New Year’s Eve 2017. The 97-acre piece of land has been a working farm since 1706, so when Cox’s great aunt died with no heirs, she left the land to his mother and her family, with the condition that it remain a farm. At just 23 years old, living in his native Oklahoma and “pretty fresh out of college,” Cox says he found himself being asked whether he was interested in farming in Massachusetts. “I didn’t know if I wanted that life, but my adventurous side said yes, and I’m
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