Beaverhead Farm
Current Owner: Noreen and Bill O’Farrell
Total Acreage: 55 acres
Farm Type: Beef, Vegetables
Farmer: Noreen and Bill O’Farrell

The O’Farrell’s have a small herd of 20 Scottish Highland and Black Angus cattle. The farm consists of 45 acres of fields and one acre of vegetables.

Fox Hill Farm
Current Owner: Patrick Driscoll
Total Acreage: 65 acres
Farm Type: Hay, Corn
Farmer: Joe Dutra

Fox Hill Farm, on the north side of Fort Getty Road, has remained farmland for hundreds of years. The current owners do not farm but make about 30 acres avaiable to Joe Dutra. Dutra cultivates the land for alfalfa, corn and hay to use for feed for his dairy herd. Dutra can get as many as three separate cuttings from the field, each cutting producing several hundred bales of high quality winter feed for his cows.

Hodgkiss Farm
Current Owner: Gail and Harry Chase
\Total Acreage: 65 acres
Farm Type: Vegetables, Flowers, Hay, Open, Fields
Farmer: Gail and Harry Chase

Once part of Watson Farm, Gail Chase represents the seventh generation of her family on the farm. Forty-five acres of the farm are used for maintaining fallow hay and five acres are used for growing fruits and vegetables. The Chases also keep horses, two sheep, and six chickens. The Chases maintain a farm stand for their flowers and vegetables.

Neale Farm
Current Owner: George Neale
Total Acreage: 45 acres
Farm Type: Livestock, Cattle, Horses
Farmer: George and Martha Neale

George and Martha Neale are second generation farmers. Together they maintain a herd of 30 to 45 Belted Galloway cattle. The Neales are developing their farm to compete in the specialized market for grass-fed beef. They also have horses, a pig, chickens, a vegetable garden, and an orchard.

Dutra Farm
Current Owner: Joseph Dutra
Total Acreage: 141 acres
Farm Type: Holstein Dairy Farm
Farmer: Joe and Jessie Dutra

The 140 acre Dutra Farm, owned and operated bo Joe and Jessie Dutra, was named New England Farm of the Year in 2003. One of only twenty dairy farms left in Rhode Island, the farm has been in the Dutra Family since the early 1900s. The dairy herd has Holsteins, half of which are active milking cows and the other half heifers. To feed their herd, the Dutras plant about thirty acres of corn and twenty-seven of alfalfa. The rest is hay and pasture, including some land at Fox Hill Farm that Mr. Dutra cultivates.

Watson Farm
Current Owner: Historic New England
Total Acreage: 285 acres
Farm Type: Beef, Sheep, Hay, Vegetables, Wool Products
Farmer: Heather and Don Minto

Eight years after the end of the Rwevolutionary War, Job Watson purchased a piece of rich farmland on the west side of Conanicut Island. for over 190 years, five successive generations of the Watson family worked the North Farm. In 1979, the Tom Carr Watson bequeathed his family’s 285 acre farm to the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. Don and Heather Minto cane to Watson Farm in 1980 as farm managers. There original intention was to take the resources at hand (cattle and grass) and manage them as a viable family farm operation. Implementing innovative fencing and grazing systems, Don and Heather developed a system of intensive rotational grazing. Primarily a cow-calf operation, the Mintos raise grass-fed feeder calves which they sell both privately and at auction. In addition, many calves are retained in the herd, raised to 18-24 months and sold as matural grass-fed beef directly to families that desire the healthful product.

The Ceppi Farm
Jamestown Community Farm
Current Owner: Peter Ceppi
Total Acreage: 15 acres
Farm Type: Vegetables, Hay
Farmer: Jamestown Community Farm

The bulk of this 18 acres is hayed or used for cover crops, and for the last few years the owner has made several acres of his land available to the Conanicut Island Land Trust’s Jamestown Community Farm.

North Meadow Farm
Current Owner: Nick Robertson and Children Trust
Total Acreage: 25 acres
Farm Type: horses, Chickens, Vegetables
Farmer: Nick Robertson

The North Meadow Farm accommodates between 18 and 20 horses, both riding and draft. There are two riding rings and a series of stable barns and fenced pastures. Because of the farm’s limited size, there are no row or field crops.

Godena Farm
Current Owner: Louis Godena
Total Acreage: 25 acres
Farm Type: Field Crops
Farmer: Louis Godena

The Godena Farm is fenced and the fields are maintained as pasture and hayfields. There is one main barn on the property.