Achille Agway

Specialties

We are a Garden, Home, Farm, and Pet store serving the community for over 40 years. If you enjoy an attractive lawn, growing your own vegetables and flowers, feeding birds, or giving your pets and horse the nutrition they need to be their healthiest, Achille Agway is the place for you.

We specialize in high quality products and a friendly, knowledgeable staff to help you with your projects. Our nursery facility offers a large selection of gardening supplies and plant goods. Our unequaled customer service makes Achille Agway really special. The customers always get real advice from real people who enthusiastically share their own yard, garden, or pet interests. There is a variety of in store services like help in loading purchases in the customer’s cars, delivery, soil testing and free information on lawn gardening projects.

The customer’s satisfaction is our top priority. If they are not completely happy with a product purchase from us, they just bring it back.

History

Established in 1965.

Achille Agway has been in business for over 40 years. It was started by George Achille, Sr. as a poultry farm in the 1950s. George was a carload customer purchasing his feed from Eastern States. This soon grew into a side track business supplying feed to other local famers. This venture was so successful he opened his first store in Peterborough, NH in the 1965. This location was expanded in 1977.

The second store, Keene, NH was opened in 1981. A new store was opened in 2000 on this location, 80 Martell Court in Keene. In 1986 the third store was added in Hillsboro, NH. Then the company expanded into three additional stores: Milford in 1988, Walpole in 1996 and Brattleboro, VT in 1999. This location was an Agway, Inc. store.

George Achille Jr. now owns and operates the family business. The company continues to grow by utilizing his father’s business plan and adding his ideas to the plan. A good example is the establishment of a trucking company to ensure product availability at the