NORTH HAMPTON The news hit hard this week: The Urban Farmhouse Eatery is closing, leaving the community without one of its favorite gathering spots for food and comfort.
With a post on the restaurant’s Facebook page last week, owner Renee Locke explained that when she opened four and a half years ago, she hung a sign reading “Enter as strangers, leave as friends.” The sign would “shape who we became,” Locke wrote, making them grateful to be invited to be part of the lives of the community and those who patronized the Route 1 breakfast and lunch restaurant.
“Bearing witness to your traditions, your milestones, your successes and your growing families are just some of the reasons this is such a difficult post to write,” Locke stated.