A golf cart shuttle was needed to reach the farther reaches of the Hildene Estate, and we did not have time for the Hildene Farm in the valley.
Next: Magazzino Italian Art.
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| We did visit the Goat Dairy (2008), a solar-powered, sustainable post-and-beam facility that produces artisan goat cheese and soap |
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| A herd of Capra aegagrus hircus/Nubian Goats is maintained for milk and some breeding |
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| Milking parlor where six female does can be milked at a time |
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| Processing Room where the milk is cooled |
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| Cheese-making Room where Chevre (soft fresh cheese) and Tomme (aged cheese) are produced |
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| These appear to be older kids, whereas the female does were all at the feeding trough |
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| The youngest kids were separated in a smaller barn |
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| Hildene Welcome Center (1905 as the carriage house) |
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| Entrance to the Cutting and Kitchen Garden |
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| Kitchen Garden with wooden deer-fencing |
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| All the Kitchen Garden produce goes to a local community food cupboard |
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| Pollinator Garden (KSS) |
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| Apples in the Apple Orchard |
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| Rubus odoratus/Purple-flowered Raspberry blossoms |
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| Vaccinium sp/Blueberries |
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| Cutting Garden provides fresh cut flowers for the house |
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| Kent examines the Observation Beehive in the Family Youth Education Center (2009) |
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| Upon leaving Hildene, we stopped at the Arlington Dairy Bar (est 1946, building 1962) for lunch |
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