Bramble Hill Farm

 
Bramble Hill Farm provides living and working spaces for a range of people and projects that test innovative ways to build a sustainable, healthy, and creative farm centered community that benefits the broader population.

The 120 acre farm is located in Amherst, MA and is supported by the Open Field Foundation.

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Mission & History

Bramble Hill Farm is a 120 acre former dairy farm in Amherst, MA. The Jacques family enrolled the farm in the Agricultural Preservation Restriction (APR) Program in 1979, protecting the farm from non-agricultural development. It was the third farm in the state to enroll the program. The old farm buildings have been carefully renovated and preserved to provide living and working spaces for a range of people and projects. The goal of Farm is to test innovative ways to build a sustainable, healthy, and creative farm-centered community, accessible to and interactive with the larger community which surrounds it.

Bramble Hill Farm is very much a work in progress. Each piece of the Farm has the potential to be developed in myriad ways that push the boundaries of agricultural preservation and expand upon our individual and collective ideas of farming and land-based practices in the face of climate change. The form this development takes is determined in large part by the people and enterprises working and living here.

The farm shares a border with The Common School, a private K -6 elementary school with a curriculum based on “in-depth studies and experiential learning," and our ponds provide learning space for The Hitchcock Center's Pond Ecology programs. We welcome other groups interested in learning about, creating from, and engaging with the farm's diverse ecological resources to reach out to us by email: BrambleHillFarmAmherst@gmail.com.