Planted as a 4-H project, still in the family.
Herb and Alice Landis Tonry moved with their 6 children to Hampton Falls in 1964. They started planting Christmas Trees as a 4-H project. Herb died in 1990 and Abby Tonry took over the operation from her father, and she and her mother ran the farm together until 2016.
In July 2007, Alice Landis Tonry put her land in a conservation easement with Southeast Land Trust, meaning it will never be developed and will continue to be farmed. Until her dying day Alice lovingly mowed and tended to her trees and took joy from seeing children and families visit her land.
Today, the farm continues within the Tonry family under the leadership of Abby Tonry, Alice Day Tonry, Alice's husband Chris Grant, Jessie Tonry, her husband Pete King, and their daughter — our 4th generation tree farmer — Ellie Tonry King.
