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Pick your own fresh fruit and vegetables including apples, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, peaches and more!  Farm animals for petting, play area and picnic area.  This is a great place to take children for a leisurely afternoontaking a hayride to the picking fields and visiting the barn where they make the best apple cider doughnuts you have ever had!

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Visit the grounds: year-round, daily, sunrise to sunset. Paine House: guided tours offered seasonally. Allow a minimum of 1 hour, 2 hours if taking Paine House tour.

As you wander the reservation grounds on a typical summer day, you may see swallows, waxwings, and dragonflies swooping over the fields for small insects, or a red-tailed hawk riding high on a thermal. Great blue herons and snowy and American egrets wade through the marsh. Occasionally at dawn or dusk, the air quivers with the soft hooting of a great horned owl or the raspy bark of a red fox. Bobolinks nest in the fields.
The property includes several islands on the salt marsh, the three largest being Diamond Stage, Homestead, and Widow’s Island. The islands are drumlins created by the Wisconsin glacier more than 10,000 years ago. Access to the islands is prohibited to protect the salt marsh.

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This 658 acre estate offers rolling grasslands, grazing livestock, stone walls, and historic farm buildings are part of this pastoral landscape – a rare glimpse into New England’s agricultural past. A gift of Colonel Francis R. Appleton, Jr., and his wife Joan, Appleton Farms is one of the oldest continuously operating farms in the country, established and maintained by nine generations of the Appleton family. Miles of trails wind through area of grassy field, farm land and forest, and are perfect for walking and horseback riding.

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A mecca for lovers of American folk art, Cogswell’s Grant was the summer home of renowned collectors Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little. The colonial-era farmhouse on the property serves as a rich backdrop for their celebrated collection, assembled over a period of nearly sixty years. Though known for their meticulous research, the Littles decorated with an eye for visual delight rather than historic accuracy, and the result is a house rich in atmosphere and crowded with works of strong, even quirky character.

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Tender Crop Farm offers fruits, vegetables, plants, dried flowers novelties, Christmas trees and décor, and food products including prepared foods, baked goods and a butchery. The retail barn is a historic 1600's cow barn. There is a petting zoo with a buffalo and llamas. Children can buy food to feed to the animals.

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Turkey Hill Farm is a designated tree farm that also offers pick your own berries, cut flowers and Christmas trees. They also sell honey and maple syrup.

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