10-16-08

Walpole’s Great  Brook Farm Open Barn This Weekend

By Chuck Bingaman

            Great Brook Farm on County Road in Walpole, one of the nation’s oldest continuously run family businesses stretching back into the 18th century, holds an open barn and fun day Sunday, October 19 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

            Visitors to the farm will enjoy hayrides, tastes of Great Brook’s “raw” milk that is sold in the farms store in both plain and chocolate versions, Walpole Creamery ice cream, Boggy Meadow Cheese, and Great Brook Farm maple syrup. 

            “We’ll also be giving tours of the calf barn, the milking parlor and the sugar house,” according to farm operator Peter Graves, one of the 9th generation of Graves that have run the farm.

            Graves’ sister, Cindy Westover, adds that “We’ll also have farm animals for patting and even introduce visitors to Jack, our month old llama.  So bring your camera!”

            Great Brook Farm is at 427 County Road, about two miles south of the village of Walpole.  Take Main Street south to Prospect Hill Road and take Prospect Hill a half-mile southeast to where County Road veers off to the right.  Follow County Road to the farm where there is plenty of parking and free admission.