January 21, 2010: While traveling in the Westchester NY area, Anne asked me to stop by the Stone Barn Center for Food and Agriculture in Pocantico Hills and check out the site for a possible school trip for her GardenWorks club. It is just out side Tarrytown, so after a visit to the Hatatchi office I took the drive through the lakes and over the hills and found the center.
As you wind your way up route 448 from the center of Tarrytown, the trees get a little larger, the houses get farther apart, then you hit a stretch with open land and what looks like horse farms.
There is a small sign at the gate, you head down a small road through pastures and wind your way through rolling hills and come to this amazing set of buildings surrounded by acres and acres of open farm land.
The land once owned by the Rockefellers is now used as an educational center for sustainable farms. The center houses livestock, Greenhouses of herb gardens, an educational center and a restaurant. The restaurant gets most of its supplies from the grounds, including their meats. They also host a Farmers Market... Year Round.
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