This Christmas my family and I made our yearly trek out to Little Compton, RI. Little Compton is a charming New England town with tall steepled churches, low stone fences, crisp winter days and the smell of wood smoke on the air. It’s also increasingly getting more and more into local food.
While there we visited a nearby farm stand and went out to Prescott Farm; a living museum complete with a working windmill.
Here is the farm stand where we bought a bright apple cider, fresh apples, squash and regional potatoes.
The tomatoes were from a local greenhouse.
Prescott Farm is the site of a significant event in the American Revolution. General Prescott, commander of the 4,000-strong British occupying force on Aquidneck Island, took the house owned by Loyalist John Overing as his rural headquarters. This windmill is what would’ve been seen on a farm in 1812.
Workshops are offered at Prescott Farm during the summer and fall each year.
Some of these past workshops look so interesting: stonewall building, blacksmithing, open hearth cooking, a beehive tour and tasting, and wind energy past and present. I think we will need to go back again during the summer!
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