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."

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.

We've just digitized the early 20th century Tudor Rose china used by the "Vagabonds"—friends Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs—on their wilderness camping trips.

Discover how we still dye wool in Greenfield Village the same way the residents of Daggett Farmhouse would have in 1760.