Best Farm Stamford Near Me

4worldlovers: The Heckscher Farm is a 10 acre rural oasis and active working farm, where visitors can relax and enjoy a slower pace of life. The picturesque backdrop is dotted with barns, a maple sugar house, organic vegetable garden, open pastures, and dozens of farm animals. During your visit take the opportunity to experience aspects of life on a small New England Farm.

In 1955, the Museum received its first Heckscher Foundation for Children Grant to build the Farm. The farm opened that year with a dairy barn, creamery, stalls for three cows, a silo, barnyard, and two small paddocks. Since then we have expanded to include, a chicken coop, pig pen, larger pastures, shelters, and multiple barns including the Cheshire Barn built in 1750, an organic vegetable garden, our maple sugar house + cidery, and many heritage breeds of farm animals.

The goal of the vegetable garden is to educate within the context of a working organic garden. In 2005, the vegetable garden was doubled in size, which provided the opportunity to grow a more diverse variety of fruits and vegetables. In addition, educational programs were expanded and created to use the vegetable garden as a classroom, bringing school children onto the farm to experience a working garden, learn basic botany including the life cycle of a plant and the major parts and functions of a plant, and gain a greater understanding of where their food comes from. SMNC summer camps and educational programs also use the garden as a place where students learn skills and methods needed to grow a successful garden.

Today, the garden is cared for by a dedicated group of Museum employees and volunteers. Each spring rows of onions, carrots, beets, spinach, and lettuce are planted. Cucumbers and pole beans are grown on trellis and towers, and a perennial favorite, grapes provide a bountiful harvest year after year. Started by seed indoors, tomatoes, peppers, watermelon, and muskmelons ripen in the warm summer sun. Potatoes, pumpkins, and summer squash are given room to run free in the "field". Herbs such as basil, dill, chives, cilantro, and sage are harvested and add a spice to summer dishes. Garlic is planted in the late-fall for a summer treat. Annual and perennial flowers provide bees, butterflies, and humming birds with a feast throughout the growing season.

Each February, at the top of the hill on the Heckscher Farm, the maple sugar house starts to begin to bustle with activity. Late winter/early spring is the maple sugaring season here at the Stamford Museum & Nature Center.

A member of the Maple Syrup Producers Association of Connecticut, the Museum's sugarhouse is the closest public sugarhouse to New York City. Annually, over 2,000 people visit the sugarhouse including over 750 school children. We have school programs, adult programs, and open house events including Maple Sugar Festival Weekend.

During an average season the farm produces over 60 gallons of pure Connecticut maple syrup. We tap over 300 maple trees on site and use a 2x6 wood fired evaporator to boil down the sap.

4worldlovers:
Welcome to Eden Farms Nursery and Garden Center! Eden Farms strives to be a family place – a place that has something to offer everyone in your family! Whether it be trees and shrubs for your yard, annuals and perennials for your planters or garden, cut flowers for a loved one, fresh Connecticut corn for your summer barbecue, or weekend activities for the kids, Eden Farms works towards providing the customer with the best possible experience.


Eden Farms can enhance your home with stone veneer, or design a new stone patio, walkway, or wall to compliment your new landscaping. Add a custom fire pit or fireplace with a built-in kitchen and grill to make the most of the outdoors at your home.


Eden Farms Nursery & Garden Center was started as a family run nursery in the heart of Stamford by Marshall Condon. Over the years, the nursery grew in size and spirit, but has remained true to its core values. To this day, it remains a family run business with the aim to provide the highest quality gardening services for plant lovers in the lower Connecticut area.

Friday fave: Viburnums! These ‘Popcorn’ and ‘Summer Snowflake’ varieties are putting on a big show right now! Both are glorious performers in the landscape and ‘Popcorn’ is often considered the hydrangea of spring since it blooms before the hydrangeas kick in. Come on down and see all the glorious viburnums we have at Eden Farms!

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Stamford Downtown is bustling with exciting events. Whether it’s a world class sculpture exhibit, music in Columbus Park, Arts & Crafts on Bedford Street or a giant helium balloon parade, Stamford Downtown is the place to find it all.


Duck, Duck, Goose! in Stamford Downtown is an interactive sculpture exhibit, similar to past exhibits, Space Invasion, Dinosaurs Rule and Horsin’ Around and more! Thanks to the talent of 25 artists who have magically. MORE


Saturdays, 9am-1pm Veterans Memorial Park (130 Atlantic Street) Shop our weekly farmers market offering a wide variety of locally grown fruits, vegetables and flowers. You’ll also find breads, jams, baked goods, cheeses, oils and more! Straight. MORE


October 14, 2023 10am-6:30pm Shop one-of-a-kind handcrafted goods made by local and regional artists. Bedford Street restaurants will be offering extended outdoor patio cafés. Exhibitors: ACKnots KB Fine Arts AK Young Designs Kitunga Fashion. MORE


Join us for WineFest on Bedford in Stamford Downtown! Sample wine from over 20 wineries, while enjoying live music, lawn games and more! Tickets: VIP: Get into the event at 2pm & enjoy an extra hour. MORE


Join us for the backstage look at the parade and watch the giant helium balloons come to life. The Giant Balloon Inflation Party will also feature exciting performances, clowns, holiday characters and a visit from Santa! More information. MORE


The holiday season will officially kick off in Stamford Downtown on November 19 with the annual Stamford Downtown Parade Spectacular, one of the largest of its kind in the country! Planned highlights of the parade. MORE