Dame Farm

Dame Farm

Dame Farm is the functional and visual focal point of approximately 500 Acres of farm land--woodlots, orchards, pasture land and fields--in the rolling countryside along Brown Avenue. As one travels along the road, the buildings, fields and activities of the farm are presented in ever changing aspect. The barn, sheds, and dwelling, set well back from the road, form a compact nucleus surrounded by fields where hay, corn, and vegetables are grown. Dame Farm has supplied diversified crops to the local market for at least a century and a quarter and it recalls a part of Rhode Island life which is rapidly disappearing--the moderate sized family farm, owned and worked by generations of old-line Yankee farmers which provided food for the state's cities and towns during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.