Chicken pie. Homemade baked beans. Canned brown bread. Rhubarb pies–grandma’s kind of cooking. That’s Nason’s Stone House Farm.
Named after the Nason family’s 1849 stone house, which was built on the foundation of a house erected in 1710, the business flourished despite its obscure location. Jimmy Nason, alongside his daughter, Jody, and son, Kevin, are the hands that tend the ovens, bake the bread, and stir the gravy on their Boxford property, where three generations have lived and worked.
Back in Jimmy’s father’s day, Henry Nason ran a poultry farm in an annex–the "brooder" house–off the main house. In it, they housed 15,000 chickens for hatching eggs that were sent south. They were one of the five Boxford farms to do so. Today, they are the last one standing, though the chickens are long gone.