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Hilltop Hanover Farm and Environmental Center
Also known as: Hilltop Hanover
187-acre Westchester County–owned working farm and environmental center in the southern Hudson Highlands. Operates as a regenerative-agriculture demonstration site, regional-food producer, and public-education campus. Saved from development in 2003 when Westchester County purchased the property; today managed in partnership with the Hilltop Hanover Farm Foundation. Programs: a pick-your-own season, weekly farm stand, CSA, school and youth education programs, beginner-farmer training, soil-health research plots, and a public trail network. A useful counter-example to the assumption that regenerative agriculture is a private-sector-only undertaking — this is a publicly-owned working farm in one of the country's wealthiest counties.
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Hilltop Hanover grows ~30 acres of organically-managed vegetables, herbs, and flowers; runs a small pasture-raised laying flock; maintains soil-health demonstration plots in cover-crop rotations; and operates a CSA, weekly [[farm-stand|farm stand]] (May–November), and pick-your-own season. The 187-acre property includes the [[farm|working farm]], demonstration gardens, hayfields, woodlots, and a public trail network. The Foundation runs school field trips, summer youth camps, beginner-farmer training, master-gardener programs, and a robust public-program calendar.
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The property was a Hanover-bred dairy operation through the 20th century; faced with development pressure in the early 2000s, Westchester County acquired it in 2003 specifically to preserve it as a [[farm|working farm]]. The Hilltop Hanover Farm Foundation was formed to manage day-to-day operations under a county lease structure. The model — county-owned land, foundation-operated farm, public access — is unusual in the U.S. (most public farms are state-extension stations rather than working CSA-and-farmstand operations) and is worth attention as a template other counties could adapt.
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- Shares approach with: [[stone-barns-center]] · [[fishkill-farms]]
- Member of: [[farm]]
- Contained by: [[hudson-highlands]]
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