The Walpole Trails Committee invites you and your family to visit one of our public farms (current and former) on New Year’s Day. You choose: The Norfolk County Agricultural School on 150 acres of active farmland; Adams Farm, on 700 acres of former farmland; or Jarvis Farm/Town Forest on 365 acres of former farmland. Event […]
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If you haven’t yet discovered Walpole’s Adams Farm in any New England season, you might as well make this your first hike of the year. Sure, there’s the 365 acres of land purchased by the town in 1998 for you to explore on foot or mountain bike, but that doesn’t actually include another 335 —
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400 Main St, Walpole, MA 02081This property is the centerpiece of the 2021 First Day Hike. Here you get 150+ acres of pristine and active farmland — the smell of cows & horses grazing, the sound of tractors humming & students working, and the quiet of the backwoods that few who don’t go to school
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691 Common St, Walpole, MA 02081Jarvis Farm is 25 acres of town-owned land that leads across a beautiful boardwalk to enter 365 acres that is the Walpole Town Forest. Jarvis Farm is the site of the longtime home of the former Sharon Country Day Camp, and the former site of an active farm run by
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