Station Post Text: This is a good breathing spot.  The white farm house below has structures from different periods.  The larger part on the left was built in 1813. It is a traditional center hall colonial.  The smaller part on the right dates back to 1754.  The original dwelling from 1722 was probably on this same site.  This view of the house and barns has not changed much in the last 150 years except for the addition of the Farm Store.

In the pasture below or across Nourse Street (Rt. 30), you may be able to see the farm’s Hereford beef cattle. The herd averages a dozen cattle and eight calves are produced each year. The cattle spend the winter months close to the red cattle shelter in what is still called the Ox Pasture (where the farm’s oxen were pastured 120 years ago).  There they are fed haylage (hay that is baled or wrapped in plastic when still moist, preserving the plants’ nutrients) and grain and go into the shelter during inclement weather.  Calves are usually born in the spring.  In the summer months the cattle feed themselves, grazing the farm’s pastures.