McKeon Farm

Sunrise over McKeon Farm
Sunrise over McKeon Farm

The property consists mainly of hillside meadows and forest, which provide important habitat for many birds, flora, and fauna. The property also contains wet meadows, which provide important habitat for various species of butterflies. A trail leading around the field and through the gully in the middle of the site is accessible to the public from the culde-sac at the end of Lauzun Lane.

Approaching McKeon’s farm from the south or west, one travels through heavily wooded areas into the cleared fields and meadows of the farm, offering lovely vistas in all directions.

The site includes sheep pastures, guarded by llama in the Apple Orchard and the two Ridgebury Pastures operated by Henny Penny Farm, a teaching garden for individuals on the spectrum run by Cornerstone Home and Gardens and a pollinator garden. 

Click here to get further information on McKeon's history.

Cornerstone Home and Gardens is a 501(c)3 organization leasing space for their garden in the upper meadow at McKeon Farm. The garden provides special needs educational gardening and job experience to young adults with ASD and other related disabilities, as well as providing volunteering opportunities to Ridgefield High School students. In partnership with Ridgefield Social Services, CG&H donates fresh vegetables harvested at the garden to Ridgefield families in need.

Click here to get further information and a map of the trail at McKeon.

A pollinator garden is installed at McKeon in conjunction with Landscape Interactions, to attract and sustain pollinators on the farm.  Read the report McKeon Farm Meadows and Hedgerows Toolkit for Landscape Design and Management to Support Pollinator Species at Risk in Western Connecticut for more information. 

If you'd llike to plant a pollinator garden of your own to help our pollinators, there are organisations who sell native plants suited to suporting local pollinators.  Click on our Pollinator Pathways web page for more information. To buy native plants, the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Connecticut’s (CT NOFA) Ecotype Project is a source for truly native wildflowers in Connecticut.  Here is a list from the CTNOFA Ecotype Project of May 2021 at Wilton High School: Native Wildflower Plant Sale.  

McKeon Farm Tools Museum: 

McKeon Farm Tools Museum