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Campus & Buildings

Favorite Places On The Farm

We're excited to open for the 2025 season this weekend! To celebrate, we asked Shelburne Farms staff members to share their favorite places on our working farm campus.

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Forest as a Classroom

Our woodlands are more than a beautiful backdrop. They are part of an unparalleled classroom for learning.

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Where on the Farm? Lone Tree Hill

Explore the mystery of the "Lone Tree" and other stories of the tallest point on Shelburne Farms.

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Enjoy the Children's Farmyard this summer!

The Children’s Farmyard is alive this summer with animals and activities to keep your family busy exploring and learning for an afternoon – or a whole day!

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Olmsted's Vision at Shelburne Farms

On the 200th anniversary of Frederick Law Olmsted's birth, we joined the National Association for Olmsted Parks to celebrate his enduring influence at Shelburne Farms.

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Ensuring our Campus' Future with Lightning Protection

Improved lightning protection, installed this summer and fall, will protect historic buildings essential to our educational campus.

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Revitalizing the Inn's Chimneys

A team of restoration masons has spent the season giving the Inn's eleven chimney's some needed TLC. The pandemic made it possible.

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Shelburne Farms awarded $500,000 Save America’s Treasures Grant

Exterior restoration of historic Breeding Barn at Shelburne Farms to be completed under new grant award.

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2021 Formal Garden Updates: August 25

Read about what is blooming in the Formal Gardens with details from Horticulturist Paul Wieczoreck and Garden Manager Birgit Deeds.

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Student Q+A: What's Happening in the Solar Orchard?

Students explored renewable energy on the Farm and beyond. Find out what they asked (and learned) during their field trip.

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1611 Harbor Road Shelburne, Vermont 05482 

Telephone: 802-985-8686

An education nonprofit on a mission to inspire and cultivate learning for a sustainable future through its programs, place, and products. Home to the Institute for Sustainable Schools, our historic campus is a 1,400-acre diversified farm located on the homelands of the Winooskik band of the Abenaki.

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