Working Farms

The holiday season is upon us, and visitors to Greenfield Village may catch a full Victorian Thanksgiving meal being prepared by presenters at Firestone Farm. Try our delicious Thanksgiving recipes at home. They all taste best with a healthy helping

Samuel and Anna Daggett and their children, like other farm families living in northeastern Connecticut in the 1760s, made careful preparations to get through the winter.

Learn the role that apples played on the farm where Henry Ford grew up--and how we are preserving that heritage in Greenfield Village.

A conservator who worked on the project details the historical and archeological research, careful disassembly, and highly skilled reconstruction involved in recreating the Firestone farmstead in Greenfield Village.

Every year, the staff of Firestone Farm in Greenfield Village harvest wheat using equipment similar to that used at the farm in 1885: a genuine 1880s "self-rake reaper."

Greenfield Village is host to a plethora of gardens, both floral and vegetable. The Living History and Agricultural teams are responsible for the historic growing spaces to produce the vegetables, fruits, dye materials, and herbs that our ancestors would have relied on — spanning from 1760 through 1930.

During your April or May visit to Greenfield Village, you just might catch our farmers shearing our special wrinkly Merino sheep with the same technology used in 1885. Check out this preview.

Steam-powered traction engines transformed American agriculture from intense hand labor to almost total mechanization. Learn more in this blog post.

Take a tour through the gardens associated with many of Greenfield Village's most beloved houses. Learn what we grow at each and why.

If it's spring, it's time to plant corn at Firestone Farm in Greenfield Village. Learn how we prepare the fields and plant seed, the same way the Firestone family would have done.