The inn had hosted everyone from Revolutionary War Minutemen to Eleanor Roosevelt. In 2011, fire destroyed the 333-year-old Groton Inn on Main Street, which has a "Think Local First" banner hanging across it. The fire is not the first to devastate a local institution in recent years. They bring their kids here to pet the barn cats and see the animals." People have been coming here for generations. "It feels good to know people actually care, that it meant something. "Since the fire, we've had a stream of cars coming by to tell us how upset they are," Sharon Blood said. The impact has been very emotional for longtime customers and friends. I'm probably going to have to go to New Hampshire or Vermont, but I'm sure they're booked solid, as well, because there's so much demand for home-raised local beef and pork." Now I've got to scramble, but it's going to be tough, because the slots at Blood were already booked six months in advance. "A lot of that meat has already been presold to customers who want local-grown meat. He had two cows being processed when the fire hit. Sharon Blood, the office manager on the farm, said that about 20 employees would be out of work and that the financial impact could ripple further, to the many businesses that rely on the farm, from local co-ops to high-end restaurants in Boston.Īndy Hertel, the owner of Maple Heights Farm in Westminster, said the loss of the Blood Farm was going to devastate his business. And the meat you'd get back was so good, the hardest part was cooking it to meet the expectations of that cut." They'd be cutting the meat, singing along, having a good old time. "The woman who helped us was as excited as Matt was," he said. On Saturday, Matt had shot his first deer, and they had brought it to Blood Farm to be butchered. Standing nearby was Kevin Nelson and his 17-year-old son Matt, who live in neighboring Pepperell.
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