Ben Elliott is not a farmer by trade. But a few years ago, after leaving his job as chef at No.9 Park in Boston, Elliott jumped at the opportunity to restore his family's farm on Westford Road. Maintaining a 10-acre fruit and vegetable farm is a daily challenge, and even more so for someone with minimal farming experience. But the occasional frustration fades away with one bite into a freshly picked sugar snap pea. "I'm not pretending to be a professional farmer, doing things on the scale of say, a Verrill Farm or McGrath Farm down the road," Elliott said. "I just do this because I love it." …

If Pete Lowy is tired at this point, he sure isn't showing it. Lowy never stops bouncing around as we meet the 40 pigs and around 525 egg-laying hens he keeps with his wife Jen on the aptly named Pete and Jen's Backyard Birds on Wheeler Road. Whether Pete is crouching low to give one of his piglets a healthy slap on the back, or making sure every last water tank and giant feed container on the hen pasture is full, the hop in his step and wide smile on his face are constant. Lowy has reason to be a bit exhausted --after all, he's spending his precious lunch break from his other job as …

This is the first in a series profiling the many farms in town, all of which make Concord unique. We kick things off with Hutchins Farm, located at 754 Monument St. Have a favorite farm that you think we should feature? Let us know in the comments section! Since John and Gordon Bemis took over their grandfather Gordon Hutchins' farm in 1973, the two brothers have held an uncompromising commitment to growing fresh, always organic produce. The Bemis brothers chose in 1973 to rename what was from 1912 to the early 1950's called "Punktasset Farm" --from the name of the hill on which the farm sits…