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Northshore October 2025
McDonough “Mac” Scanlon can fix a tractor, sharpen clippers, and manage accounting. Oh, and she also grows winter greens, tomatoes, and amazing cucumbers, both classic varieties and exotic ones like round lemon cucumbers and long greenish-white Itachi cucumbers, a specialty veggie that was requested by a chef who buys wholesale from her. Turns out farming is a lot more than weeding and planting. As proprietor of High Road Farm in Newbury, Scanlon has had to learn everything from repairing a fan belt to QuickBooks, relying on resources as varied as The Carrot Project and New Entry Sustainable Farming Project – organizations that suppo
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