Left Bower Farm should really be called the Backyard Farm. Our large garden plot is located behind the historic Isaac Manchester farmhouse on Manchester-Farms in Avella. Our organic vegetable operation is a small fraction of the agricultural output of the larger farm, which is predominately an organic dairy, but is also home to organic, grass-fed beef cattle, Berkshire pigs, some happy chickens, two goats and a donkey. It’s a beautiful and inspiring place to grow a vegetable patch, and I’m not the only one who thinks so.
The Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh paid Manchester-Farms a great honor by choosing its iconic farmhouse and 18th century outbuildings as the latest additions to the famous Miniature Railroad & Village installation. Patty Rogers is the artist/curator in charge of the miniature railroad and I had the pleasure of meeting her at the farm while she was taking photos. Her recreation of the farmhouse is ridiculously detailed and accurate, right down to the real stones she cut for the foundation. Like and idiot, I forgot my camera when we visited a few weeks ago, but I found some pics from other visitors:
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- The arrangement of the fields isn’t true to life, but the house and the two main outbuildings are dead on.
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- A better shot of the front of the farmhouse
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- The farm is in the top left of this shot
Thanks Dave, that was really nice! We appreciate your thoughtfulness & love having Left Bower Farm a part of our Manchester-Farms! Love our organic veggies.
Amazing honor! I can’t wait to go see it in person… (both the farm itself and the miniature!)