General Info

Visitors are welcome to walk the grounds and trails, visit the farmstand, enjoy one of our many arts, music and educational programs and take a tour of the historic Manor House during scheduled tour dates. Our mission is to cultivate, preserve, and share these lands, buildings, and stories- inviting new thought about the importance of food, culture and place in our daily lives. Once a Native American hunting and fishing ground, Sylvester Manor has since 1652 been home to eleven generations of its original European settler family. It reflects a remarkably intact history of America's evolving tastes, economies and landscapes. Over time, the place has been transformed from a slaveholding provisioning plantation to an Enlightenment-era farm, then to a pioneering food industrialist's estate and today to an organic educational farm responsive to, and supported by, our neighbors and friends worldwide.Visitors are welcome to walk the grounds and trails, visit the farmstand, enjoy one of our many arts, music and educational programs and take a tour of the historic Manor House during scheduled tour dates. Our mission is to cultivate, preserve, and share these lands, buildings, and stories- inviting new thought about the importance of food, culture and place in our daily lives. Once a Native American hunting and fishing ground, Sylvester Manor has since 1652 been home to eleven generations of its original European settler family. It reflects a remarkably intact history of America's evolving tastes, economies and landscapes. Over time, the place has been transformed from a slaveholding provisioning plantation to an Enlightenment-era farm, then to a pioneering food industrialist's estate and today to an organic educational farm responsive to, and supported by, our neighbors and friends worldwide.