Stone Barns
If you want to go to a fascinating place in Westchester County, head over to Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in Pocantico Hills! This is a non-profit farm, education, and research center that was created on 80 acres that used to belong to the Rockefeller estate. The stone barns on the property were commissioned by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to be a dairy farm in the 1930s, then it fell into disuse in the 1950s and was mostly used for storage. In the 1970s, agricultural activity started up again when David Rockefeller’s wife Peggy McGrath began a successful cattle breeding operation. The actual center as it is today was created by David Rockefeller, his daughter Peggy Dulany, and their associate James Ford as a memorial for David’s wife who died in 1996, and it opened to the public in 2004. The farm on the property runs all year round and has six acres that are used for vegetable production. It grows 300 varieties of produce year-round in the outdoor fields and gardens and...