About Us

As owner operators of The Barn at Moody Mountain Farm, Perrin Long and Julie Maher-Long are excited to share all this historic and beautiful property has to offer.

Perrin and Julie met in 1980 on the island of Nantucket while working in the same restaurant. After living in various cities around the country, they decided to return home to New England to get married and begin a family. They settled at Moody Mountain Farm, a property that has been in Perrin’s family since the 1780’s. They lived at the farm for 8 years before relocating to Portsmouth to raise their two children.

Perrin is a professionally trained chef who worked in culinary education at both the university and high school level for nearly 25 years. Julie has a degree in Accounting and has worked as a bookkeeper and tax preparer for many years. In 2017, Perrin retired from teaching and he and Julie returned once again to Moody Mountain Farm.

Given their unique backgrounds, Perrin and Julie are well suited to the in’s and out’s of planning a wedding. As a seventh-generation owner of the property, Perrin takes pride in making sure the grounds are in pristine condition for each and every couple. He handles most of the property tours and is able to provide couples with ample information and ideas as to how past couples have arranged their wedding around the space. Julie’s background lends wonderfully to all of the details involved in planning a wedding. She is the first point of contact via e-mail and handles the scheduling of tours, preparing rental agreements, and answering the many technical questions that come her way.

Moody Mountain Farm has a rich history for both Perrin and Julie. Not only does Perrin have fond memories of spending his summers here as a child but it is where they began their family together back in the 1980’s. They invite you to come see all the property has to offer and hope to be a part of the beginning of each couple’s happily ever after.

Josh Arnold

On occasion our barn assistant Josh Arnold fills in for us to make sure set-up and logistics for your event are running smoothly. Josh and his wife Molly live just down the road from Moody Mountain Farm. Josh is the Founding Director of a local nonprofit, Global Awareness Local Action (G.A.L.A.) which offers self-reliance workshops, sustainable home and yard makeovers, study circles, contra dances and other community building activities. Josh and Molly were married at Moody Mountain Farm in 2015.