Maple Frost Farm

Kimberly and Jack Mastrianni left their city lives in Massachusetts to establish Maple Frost Farm in rural New Hampshire in 2004. Kim was an animal science major in college and ran a horse farm in New York after school, but worked in accounting in Boston for many years before returning to agriculture. Knowing that they wanted their main focus to be on fiber production rather than meat, the Mastriannis chose to raise Leicester Longwools, a sheep breed once popular around the world and now classified as "rare" by the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy. A large-framed sheep carrying a heavy fleece, the Leicester Longwool is a sturdy, efficient and adaptable breed that makes good use of marginal forage.