The Corn Crib

This corn crib stood by Peter Fife’s barn on Borough Road in Canterbury, New Hampshire for forty years. He got it from somewhere else; we just haven’t been able to get a straight answer as to where. The frame and walls of the building are made entirely of American chestnut. A new cedar-shingle roof and trim boards were put on by Sanborn Mills Farm interns Aaron Swiger and Ben Lefebvre during the summer of 2007. With the improvements, the corn crib is theoretically squirrel-proof. During a cornhusking celebration, 100 pairs of hands can husk two acres worth of corn in under an hour, which is usually enough to feed our pigs for the next year.