Our Story
White Rock Farm is a landscape in southern Vermont dedicated to a sustainable future. Located in Bennington, VT the farm was established by Eunice and Elhanan Stratton in 1828. Today, its 295 acres remain an active farm for livestock, maple syrup production, hay, and timber.
A stay at White Rock Farm centers around the original farmhouse with five bedrooms and can sleep up to a dozen guests year-round. The main room of the farmhouse was built from old-growth white pine and its newer wings are fully modernized. Accounting for two-thirds of the property, the farm’s woodlot slopes upward to a boundary with the Glastenbury Wilderness, part of the Green Mountain National Forest. A network of trails crisscrosses this mountainside, leading to the White Rocks overlook, Bald Mountain Trail, and eventually, the Long Trail (the name for the Appalachian Trail in this part of Vermont). In the other direction, the Furnace Brook Walk goes through hemlock and oak groves down to the water where you can wade in the stream before looping back to our barn. The White Rock Farm’s forester indexes each tree on our property of a certain size as part of our sustainable forestry practice.
White Rock Farm is owned by the Cosenza and Sollohub families and managed on a day-to-day basis by a team of caretakers. These owners maintain a vision for expansion on the farm, including sustainable forestry, regenerative farming, and the improvement of host ecosystems. Both farming and new buildings will strive toward carbon neutrality based on green energy applications and well-insulated construction. An expanding hospitality component at the farm will showcase these various forms of stewardship, combining education with the promotion of sustainable agricultural practices.
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