• Farmstand Hours

    9a-Sunset : self-serve!
  • Sylvester Manor Educational Farm
    80 North Ferry Road
    Shelter Island, NY 11964

    631.749.0626

    info@sylvestermanor.org

    c. 2012 Sylvester Manor
    All Rights Reserved

Don’t miss our Open House

Greens, Bread, & Seedlings available @ the farmstand

Come celebrate the coming of summer at Sylvester Manor’s farmstand this weekend, 5/19 & 5/20, and check out our great greens, Blue Duck bread, and ready-to-plant seedlings.  We’ve got spinach (pictured above!), young kale and collard greens, salad mix, arugula, and baby cut lettuce.  It’s all delicious and farm fresh for $6/bag. Stop by the [...]

5/21: Earn a Food Managers Certificate

May 21, 22 and 23 6:30 to 9:30 pm Associate Public Health Sanitarian Terrence R. O’Riordan will teach the complete Suffolk County Food Managers course over three evenings at the Manor House, and proctor an official county test on the final evening. Successful participants will be issued a food managers certificate from Suffolk County valid [...]

Harvard Gazette writes about 11th Lord of the Manor Eben Horsford

Check out this cool article in the Harvard Gazette about Eben Norton Horsford, who owned the Manor in the mid-1800s. As the father of American food chemistry and inventor of baking powder he is an important link in the history of food. And this photo has me wondering- was he an even more important link [...]

2012 Save the Date Calendar Released!

Click Here to check out our 2012 Save The Date Calendar!

Seeding Party 3/31

This Saturday we will be hosting our FIRST ANNUAL Spring Celebration and Seeding Party! Come see our quickly growing chicks and our brand new 8-week old pigs, then help seed the beginning round of plants for the season! This fun-filled event will take place at the newly-renovated greenhouse on our property – by the three main barns – [...]

Spring has Sprung at the Manor and on the Farm!

Spring has arrived here at Sylvester Manor and we are busy, busy jump starting our season on the farm !  As mentioned in an earlier post, we had 20+ volunteers here for a week in mid-march and got lots of good work done on various season starters such as mulching, construction of the farmstand 2.0, [...]

Summer Youth Programs Early-Bird Registration has Begun!

Summer Youth Programs Early-Bird Registration has Begun! Get $50 off normal registration fees now until May 1st! But hurry, spaces are limited! We have three different programs this summer – two brand new additions – for kids ages 3 -12! For more information and to download a mail-in registration form visit the youth programs page.

Thank you RAY SMITH & ASSOCIATES!

Sylvester Manor’s long-time arborist, Ray Smith, pledged an exceptional gift to us — to clean-up the woodland areas and landscape trees around the Manor House and driveway. He sent his company’s tree division to the manor for three days this month to remove hazardous limbs and dead trees — an enormous task, made greater by [...]

Plant & Sing Schedule

Check out the Plant & Sing website.   It lists all of the weekend’s events!     www.plantandsing.com

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