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Pine Hill Waldorf School
Distance: 7.3 MiPO Box 668
03086-0668 Wilton -
Ideal Compost Co
Distance: 13.2 Mi439 Old Greenfield Road
3458 Peterborough -
Hollis Grain & Hardware
Distance: 10.5 Mi60 Broad St
03049-5905 Hollis -
Garden Gate Quilting
Distance: 11.9 Mi176 Amherst St
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Daffodils Flowers & Gifts
Distance: 12.9 Mi11 Turnpike Rd
03452-6667 Jaffrey
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It has been a full morning a lot to take in but now it is time to relax, have a buffet lunch at the hotel and talk with each other about what we have seen. We have a lot of questions, but our guide proposes that we wait, feeling that we will learn much by only seeing the whole, and that our questions will be better informed after we have viewed the entire scope of the Village. After lunch there is free time, for a siesta or socializing or walks in the fields we came through on the way or any of the places we visited. We are asked not to go yet to places we have not been with our guide. A new guide shows up in a couple of hours and our tour continues. We go back behind the last buildings we visited and are shown the fire station, the snow plows and a building for construction, repair and general maintenance, the barns, stables and other farm buildings, beyond which extend the fields where we can see potatoes, corn, wheat, and soy growing. Standing high beyond them are three wind turbines slowly revolving, and we are told they produce more than enough electricity for the whole Village. Above the farm buildings are maple sugaring and cider pressing houses and the orchards of apple, pear, peach, cherry, walnut, pecan and a few other nut trees. We cross back through the flower gardens behind the culture center and see many different styles, including an English garden, a French garden, a Japanese garden, a Chinese garden, a rose garden, a tulip garden, a rock garden, and a...