Nature Walks with Dr. Bob at Casey Farm
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Saturday, May 20, 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Saunderstown, RI ??? Yet another way to enjoy Casey Farm while attending the popular Coastal Farmers??? Market on Saturday, May 20 is to go on a nature walk. From 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., Dr. Bob Kenney of URI will share his wide-ranging experience of the natural world during walks through the fields, woodlands, and coastline of the historic farm landscape. His guided tour changes depending on the season and what Mother Nature puts in your path.
Participants should plan to wear comfortable waterproof walking shoes, and remember sunblock, bug spray, and water. No pre-registration is necessary, and participants meet at the Casey Farm tour table at the entrance to the Coastal Growers??? Market.???? Casey Farm is located at 2325 Boston Neck Road (Route 1A) in Saunderstown, RI.
The walking tours are free for Historic New England members, $6 for nonmembers, $3 children ages five to twelve.?? Please call??401-295-1030 ext. 5??for more information, email JHennedy@historicnewengland.org. or visit online at www.historicnewengland.org.
About Casey Farm:
This mid-eighteenth century homestead overlooking Narragansett Bay was the center of a plantation that produced food for local and foreign markets. Located near Newport, Casey Farm had access to material goods imported from England, enabling its early owners to live in a fashionable manner. Prosperity ended with the burning of Newport during the Revolution, and the farm settled into a pattern of absentee ownership.
Starting in the mid-nineteenth century, the Casey family began to improve the farm. They leased the property to tenant farmers but retained two rooms in the house for their own occasional summer use, as they had come to regard the farm as their ancestral home.?? A guided tour includes the farmyard and cemetery, where six generations of Caseys are buried.
Today, farm managers raise organically grown vegetables, herbs, and flowers for subscribing households in a Community Supported Agriculture program. A weekly farmers’ market from May to October offers products from other local farms, including meat, seafood, fruit, flowers, and artisan products.
About Historic New England:??
Historic New England is the oldest, largest, and most comprehensive regional heritage organization in the nation. We bring history to life while preserving the past for everyone interested in exploring the authentic New England experience from the seventeenth century to today. The organization shares the region???s history through vast collections, publications, programs, museum properties, archives, and family stories that document more than 400 years of life in New England. Visit HistoricNewEngland.org.