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Northshore October 2025
Ever wondered how those tasty local greens are grown year round, through polar vortexes and feet of snow? We asked Andre Cantelmo, co-owner of Heron Pond Farm, which sells greens at farmers markets and at their own farm stand in South Hampton, NH, to share their secrets. 1) Growing facilities are not heated. “If we were to heat our hoop houses, it would be a bigger carbon footprint than trucking spinach from the south,” Cantelmo says. So their hoop houses are warmed by the sun each day, and if the temperature is expected to dip, the greens are tucked in with special blankets at night, trapping the heat in the soil.  2) Spinach
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