Address / locations
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219 Country Rd Ipswich, MA 01938
Ipswich, MA
Business Hours
(Please Call to Confirm)
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monday
closed
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tuesday
10:00am-4:00pm
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wednesday
10:00am-4:00pm
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thrusday
10:00am-4:00pm
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friday
10:00am-4:00pm
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saturday
10:00am-4:00pm
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sunday
10:00am-4:00pm
About Appleton Farms
Specialties: When to Visit: Trails are open year-round, daily, sunrise to sunset. Allow a minimum of 2 hours, 3 hours if also visiting Appleton Farms Grass Rides.
Six miles of footpaths, bridle paths, and farm roads (easy walking), some of which are part of the Bay Circuit Trail, crisscross the farm. We ask that you stay on marked paths and roads, observing which are for pedestrians and which...
Specialties: When to Visit: Trails are open year-round, daily, sunrise to sunset. Allow a minimum of 2 hours, 3 hours if also visiting Appleton Farms Grass Rides.
Six miles of footpaths, bridle paths, and farm roads (easy walking), some of which are part of the Bay Circuit Trail, crisscross the farm. We ask that you stay on marked paths and roads, observing which are for pedestrians and which for equestrians. Green Horse permits are required for horseback riding at Appleton Farms.
Cows graze out on pasture and are milked each morning and afternoon - their milk is processed on-site to make cheese, butter, and yogurt. Our free-range grass-fed beef herd grazes in the Great Pasture. Hundreds of families visit the farm during the growing season to pick their own vegetables as a part of our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. Appleton Farms is continuing the centuries old traditions started by the Appleton family.
There's something new going on at Appleton Farms: a dairy and a farm store! Established in 1636. In 1636, Samuel Appleton established the farm, growing vegetables, corn, and hay. Later generations of Appletons expanded into timber, beef, and dairy production, using progressive farming techniques beginning in 1868. By the late 19th century, the farm was primarily a summer country estate, complete with fox hunts and steeplechases, stone pinnacles from the Gore Hall Library at Harvard (alma mater to generations of Appletons), and the Grass Rides - five miles of trails and tree-lined grass avenues (called "rides") built for horseback and carriage driving.
Relinquishing the life estate established at the death of her husband Col. Francis R. Appleton, Jr. in 1974, Mrs. Appleton deeded approximately 658 acres with buildings in 1998.
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.
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