Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture

I had the privilege of volunteering at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture a few years ago, and it’s a place I still visit regularly. Their unwavering commitment to education, sustainability, and promoting healthy food is truly inspiring. The passionate staff is always working hard to improve and expand every aspect of their mission. Stone Barns isn’t just a farm—it’s a beacon of positive change and a testament to the impact that dedicated individuals can have. Thank you to everyone involved for all the incredible work you do!

Very nice tour, you learn about regenerative practices and also visit Stone Barn's kitchen where they share more interesting details about their practices from food preservation to how they create new recepies to experiment with ingredients.

Highly recommended for anyone interested in food systems. It’s especially impactful for families, educators, & anyone looking to reconnect with where our food really comes from. The agriculture tour at Stone Barns Center is a truly enriching experience that goes far beyond the typical farm visit. It offers a rare, behind-the-scenes look at regenerative agriculture in action. The tour brings you up close to every part of the food system, from the pastures where heritage breed livestock graze, to the greenhouse innovations and composting operations that feed the soil. The emphasis is on sustainable, ecologically responsible farming practices, and it’s clear the center isn’t just growing food, but rethinking the entire relationship between people, land, and climate.

Great place to volunteer for. Weather is gardening🌼 planting 🌱, taking care of farm animals 🐑🐖🐣🐤🦃, as a guide, or during their outstanding Annual Harvest Festival 🌾 It is a fun place to spend the day as a family 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦, with a date 💑 or by yourself🚶‍♀️ have lunch outdoors from their organic fresh food bar. Absolutely kids of all ages friendly!! Educational programs for children and adults. You will make it a regular destination stop because depending on the time of season or time of day it will always be exciting. To boot they have a fabulous shop with wonderful things. You can sign up for the #FoodCitizen Feed on their website.

We enjoyed the open air and exploring the grounds. We were disappointed that the tour was completely full when we got there and were not able to purchase tickets. Instead we were offered to do a self guided tour using the official app, however we were not able to find it on the App/Play stores. The cafe had a tasty selection of sweet and savoury pastries. All in all we had a good experience but a little underwhelming.

The other review is true! Don’t bother coming here. stay in the city going to Central Patk is way better usage of your time. also, this place needs to do serious improvement in tourist friendliness. There are virtually no signs to help direct tourists to different sightings (lambing barn, vegetable field, etc). and their website does not make it clear that if you don’t make lunch tray reservations 24-hours in advance, you can only buy some drinks, yogurt, stuff in the cafe. seriously! so, all of us ended up buying ice creams, chips and yogurt for lunch.

I spent a very wonderful day with my family there. We arrived early at 9:00 am but the main gate was closed. We waited outside and at 9:30 am sharp on Saturday morning they opened the gate. It's a very professional farm that is partner with many different universities but their main partner is cornel university. The farm also partner with blue hill restaurant where its chief join and explain how his early day start by collecting fresh plants, leaves, etc from the farm. You will meet the sheep 🐑, chickens, cows and pigs 🐖 and you will be able to learn about food cultivation. They have parking available, clean restrooms, nice place for wedding, blue hill cafe where you can buy nice breakfast, juices, coffee ☕️ and blueberry muffins It's wonderful for your kids experience as well 4 years and up.

Perfect for a day trip from NYC, a quick ride on the Metro-North Railroad and a cab from the train station gets you quickly to the farm. We made sure to purchase our tickets in advance and absolutely loved our tour of Stone Barns. The staff is full of knowledge and if you're into the sustainability movement, you'll learn a lot. We got a quick bite at the Blue Hill Cafe and Grain Bar and bought fresh baked bread for la casa.

I have not been to the restaurant yet. But by walking by it it seems to be a nice one. They have farm and farm animals around with a few trails to walk. It’s definitely a nice place to visit.

The cafe and restaurant were closed when we visited. However, we had the chance to roam around the grounds. The property is gorgeous! Will definitely come back to visit the restaurant.