“The Scott Farm continues its history of rural beauty and pleasure in farm production.” 

Fred Holbrook, 3rd generation of his family to farm here; in 1995 he donated it to Landmark USA to insure its preservation.

Our 626 acre property is home to 23 historic structures and hillside orchards heavy with fruit. We offer you the best location for a southern Vermont wedding while you and your family and/or guests can stay at one of Landmark Trust USAs historic house rentals.   The farm's historic packing barn is also the perfect venue for a special, small social event or seminar.

Scott Farm produces 90 varieties of ecologically grown apples - heirloom apples such as Roxbury Russet, Belle de Boskoop, and Cox’s Orange Pippin and unusual apples like Winter Banana and Hidden Rose - some of the finest in color, texture, and taste. Other fine fruits include quince, gooseberries, medlars, Asian pears, plums, raspberries, elderberries, table grapes, pears, blueberries, nectarines, and peaches.  

Contact Scott Farm and ask to be put on the e-mail list to receive "What's Happening Down on the Farm".  You'll find out about our annual tree sale, special workshops such as pruning and grafting, fruit tart and apple pie baking, hard cider making, and best of all our fall harvest dinner.  

Click here to view the Scott Farm web-site

“The Scott Farm continues its history of rural beauty and pleasure in farm production.”

 Fred Holbrook, 3rd generation of his family to farm here; in 1995 he donated it to Landmark USA to insure its preservation.

The Scott Farm, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places,  has been in active cultivation since 1791.  This 626 acre farm has been owned since 1995 by the Landmark Trust USA, a Vermont non-profit organization whose mission is to rescue important but neglected historic properties and bring them back to life.  At the Scott Farm this has meant revitalizing the entire farm operation from orchard to farmhouses to barns.    

For much of the 19th century Scott Farm was an all-purpose farm with a variety of animals and crops.  The earliest remaining buildings on the farm were built by Rufus Scott who purchased the farm in 1845.  The original  orchard was planted in 1911 by the Holbrook family who purchased the Scott Farm shortly after their purchase in 1903 of Rudyard Kipling's Naulakha which adjoins the farm to the south.  (This National Historic Landmark property is now also owned by The Landmark Trust USA.)   

The Holbrooks were innovative orchardists and Scott Farm was one of the first to use refrigeration and mail order sales.  Scott Farm apples were shipped to most states and several countries.  The farm even received a US patent for the design of a special shipping crate.  When the Academy-Award winning movie, The Cider House Rules, was filmed at Scott Farm in 1998, some sets were built according to photographs of the farm and barns found in the farm's mail order brochures of the 1930s.

The current orchard now contains 90 heirloom apple varieties.  The range of color, flavor, and texture is wide indeed with something to appeal to all tastes.  The farm also grows gooseberries, raspberries, blueberries, quince, grapes, pears, plums, peaches, and medlars.  The Scott Farm sells its fruit directly from the farm as well as at most Vermont Co-ops and numerous farmstands around the state.

Scott Farm’s orchard products are certified ‘ecologically grown'.  The goal of the farm is to increase the health of the entire ecosystem and is not just concerned with the fruit.  As the farm’s orchardist says, “the less you spray, the less you have to spray.”   Scott Farm has worked with both the University of Vermont and UMASS to develop pest controls such as pheromone  traps and visual lures.  Scott Farm wants to grow beautiful fruit and to hear the tree frogs sing. 

We will be adding content to the Scott Farm location soon.

Please see booking conditions for our cancellation policy and other information.

The Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce is located at 180 Main Street in Brattleboro. They have a complete listing of activities in the area.

BACC Phone number: 802-254-4565

Or you can visit them on the web to view the Events Calendar at:

www.brattleborochamber.org

For further suggestions of area activities or restaurants please contact the Landmark USA office.