History of the Farm

Farming 101 resides in the Southwest Hills region of Connecticut in an area once known as the Western Uplands.  This town was founded in 1703 after the colonists ran out of river basin land in the Central Valley region of the state.  The Uplands proved to have some farming advantages over the rich soils of the flood plains with longer days and living without the fear of flooding.

The primary disadvantage is that metamorphic and granitic rock make the till of hills in the Uplands much stonier than the glacial drift in the Central Valley.

Each spring we harvest a new crop of “New England Potatoes”, rocks and boulders, to add atop of the stone walls that have been lining the field here for the past 300 years.

This property has been farmed almost continuously since that time while our barns and home were built roughly 150 years ago.  Still a 75 acre farm in the 1950’s, the land was finally subdivided thirty years ago and we took possession of this original homestead in 2007.