109 acres · New Milford, CT · Serving the greater tri-state area
An educational agricultural campus.
Sullivan Farm combines a wide range of educational programming for kindergarten through college, with the daily work of a traditional New England farm. Our interns do the real work — growing organic vegetables, making maple syrup and keeping bees — while educating the next generation of farmers.
Our social impact on community
What one year at Sullivan Farm looks like.
Over the last 20 years, the farm has provided more than 500 internships to students. Working students run the farm’s vegetable gardens and care for its property and buildings, learning to work with each other and with the public along the way.
Every year:
Our mission
We educate through farming.
We build on a long legacy of farm education and promote a healthy community through ecologically conscious agriculture.
Our 109 acres are an outdoor classroom. Run by the nonprofit Friends of Sullivan Farm and staffed by high school and college interns, the campus welcomes students, families and organizations from across the greater tri-state area, and visitors from all over.
Our story
What students learn
Education is our main crop.
Twelve hands-on internships for students, plus classes and custom experiences for every age.
Organic Vegetable Farming
Soil development, irrigation, plant science, organic pest control, harvesting and selling through the farm stand.
Maple Syruping
Over 1,400 trees tapped. Students learn syrup production from tree to bottle and lead sugarhouse tours.
Beekeeping
Student-interns care for hives that pollinate the farm and produce honey, through every season.
Sharing the harvest
Sharing our harvest with our neighbors.
Fresh, healthy food belongs on every table. Each season, a share of the vegetables our students grow is donated to the local food bank and senior center, so our neighbors can enjoy produce picked just days before.
For our interns, it is one of the most meaningful lessons of the season: the food they grow in the field helps nourish our neighbors.
Every vegetable, maple tree, hiking trail, and honey bee is tended by students.
Why it matters
- Students gain real work experience, not just lessons.
- Our interns care for local hiking trails and historic cemeteries.
- Maple season shows climate change in action, right at the sugarhouse.
- We share regenerative farming know-how with hundreds of farms nationwide.
Plant something that lasts.
Your tax-deductible gift funds paid student internships and hands-on education for students and families across the greater tri-state area.