Moraine Farm
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Moraine Farm
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| location | Massachusetts , United States | |
| surface | 14.97 ha | |
| Geographical location | 42 ° 35 ′ N , 70 ° 54 ′ W | |
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| Setup date | 2010 | |
| administration | The Trustees of Reservations | |
Moraine Farm is the name of a 37 acres (15 hectare ) nature reserve near Beverly in the state of Massachusetts in the United States . It is managed by The Trustees of Reservations organization and is not open to the public.
history
The farm was designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in 1880 for the property owner, John C. Phillips . He experimented with ideas that he later implemented on a larger scale with the construction of the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina and Prospect Park in Brooklyn . Olmsted, whose students included the founder of the Trustees of Reservations, Charles Eliot , combined possibilities for setting up an agriculture based on the latest scientific findings with elements of landscape design on the 275 acres (111.3 ha) site .
To this end, he designed a mixture of lawns, hedges, stone walls and pastures. In addition, he used the adjacent Lake Wenham to place an expansive stone terrace in cooperation with the Boston architects Peabody and Stearns , which incorporated the main house of the farm into the landscaping. In the working areas of the farm, Olmsted installed an underground drainage system to convert seasonally flooded areas into productive arable and pasture areas.
The farm got its name from a moraine ( English moraine ) on the property, which Olmsted included in the design by building an elevated lookout point on it. The reserve was established in 2010 as a result of a donation to the trustees.
Protected area
29 acres (11.7 ha) of the protected area, which have been cultivated without interruption since the farm was founded, are currently being used by the trustees as part of a program of solidarity agriculture . The remaining 8 acres (3.2 hectares) in the reserve are made up of Wenham Lake .
Due to the continued use of the area, it is not open to visitors. In addition to the trustees, the non-profit organizations Essex County Greenbelt Association and Friends of the Olmsted Landscape are committed to the preservation of the area.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Property History. (No longer available online.) The Trustees of Reservations , archived from the original on March 28, 2014 ; accessed on March 21, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ About Moraine Farm. (No longer available online.) The Trustees of Reservations , archived from the original on March 28, 2014 ; accessed on March 21, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
