Farm
Highland Farm
Also known as: Highland Farm Honesdale, Highland Farm 1841
A multi-generation family dairy farm in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, in continuous operation since 1841. Produces milk that feeds the on-farm Calkins Creamery cheese operation — one of the bioregion's clearest cases of a 200-year farm continuity sustained through value-add diversification. The farm's longevity puts it in the same conceptual layer as Decker Farm on Staten Island and Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm: bioregional continuity expressed through working operation rather than static preservation.
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What they do
A working dairy operation, in continuous family operation since 1841 — over 180 years of farming the same Wayne County ground. The farm is the source of the milk used by the on-farm [[calkins-creamery|Calkins Creamery]] for its farmstead cheese line.
The farm’s documented continuity (1841 founding) makes it one of the longest-continuously-operating farms in the bioregion’s northern half — a heritage worth surfacing alongside [[decker-farm|Decker Farm]] ([[annadale|Staten Island]], 1810) and Quiet Valley (the 1772 PA German farmstead near Stroudsburg).
Why it matters
Long-continuity family farms are rare in 21st-century [[poconos|Pennsylvania]]. Most multi-generation dairies have either consolidated, sold to development, or ceased operation. Highland Farm’s continuity is partly a matter of [[stewardship|land stewardship]] and partly a matter of adaptation — value-add diversification through Calkins Creamery is what makes the operation viable on commodity-dairy economics that have collapsed for most peers.
For [[directory|the directory]]:
- Bioregion’s deepest farm continuity in the northern half
- Working test of dairy-survival economics — pairs with [[calkins-creamery|Calkins Creamery]] as a single integrated case
- Heritage-layer entry that complements the cultural-anchor work at [[quiet-valley-living-historical-farm|Quiet Valley]] and [[decker-farm|Decker Farm]]
See also
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- Counterpart to: [[decker-farm]]
- Member of: [[farm]]
- Contained by: [[poconos]]
Sources
- Wayne County AgroLegacy producer directory
- [[calkins-creamery|Calkins Creamery]] / Highland Farm public materials
- Wayne County Historical Society documentation
Related concepts: [[farm]].
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- Calkins Creamery produces cheese from the Highland Farm herd's milk; the value-add layer keeping the 1841 dairy operating
shares approach with
- Ellday Farm two of the bioregion's multi-generation dairy continuities
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