Our History
Groh Farm was started by Alice and Trauger Groh in 1986, and was originally part of the Temple-Wilton Community Farm, one of the two farms that pioneered Community Supported Agriculture in the United States. Temple-Wilton Community farm was founded by the partnership of Trauger Groh, Anthony Graham and Lincoln Geiger. As part of the CSA, Groh farm originally produced 1/3 of the milk and 1/3 of the vegetables needed for the members. Groh farm stopped being a part of the Temple-Wilton Community farm when Trauger retired from active farming.
Trauger Groh
Trauger was born in Vienna, Austria in 1932 and grew up in Dresden, Germany until the day it was destroyed in the Allied bombings. He eventually took over a farm in north Germany on the Dutch border and then in 1974 started an agricultural/social experiment with colleagues on a farm near Hamburg. In 1985 he settled in Wilton, NH where he married Alice Bennett and in the spring of 1986, with farm partners Lincoln Geiger, Anthony Graham and 28 community families, started the Temple-Wilton Community Farm, the oldest continuously-operating Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) project in the USA.
He was active as a farmer, lecturer and farm advisor in America, Europe and Russia. He died in Wilton in July of 2016.
Alice Groh
Alice grew up in the Chicago area, studied Biodynamic Agriculture at Emerson College in England in 1974-75 with Dr. Herbert Koepf and International Agricultural Development in a Masters Program at University of California, Davis. She moved to Wilton, NH in the autumn of 1979, where she has lived ever since. She has been active in the Wilton area with the CSA work, the work of the Anthroposophical Society and with the support of Waldorf Education in the Wilton area. She is very grateful that new farmers, with new energy and enthusiasm have come to Groh Farm, to take it into the future.
