What's New...
About our New Name
How this area adopted
a unique name for a
unique place!
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2009 FarmCoast
Maps Now Available:
The new maps for this year have been printed. They will be available at all of our member locations by June 20th.
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Visit the Coastal
Wine Trail!
Sakonnet Vineyards and Westport Rivers Vineyards have joined with other vineyards stretching along the coast from Connecticut to Cape Cod. Pick up The Coastal Wine Trail Passport
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Recent Profiles
• Gustin Ceramics
FARMCOAST NEW ENGLAND
Located within a one hour drive of Boston, Providence, Newport, and the towns of Southeastern Massachusetts, FarmCoast is a picturesque rural area of villages and farms with views of stone walls, salt marshes, church steeples, harbors, and fields that reflect the rural quality of 19th century New England.
Winter in FarmCoast is a time of planning. The landscape is expanded by the barren tress and shrubs. The salt marsh, often sprinkled with snow or ice, still will twinkle in the dusk of the low setting sun. The water's edge is a darker gray often mingling with the gray of the sky and clouds.
We are still a community of farmers and fishermen, artists and artisans, and a variety of independent business persons so that the winter months are a time of great activity to organize and plan for more clement months. During the winter, our villages remain the hub of activity and events surrounding our churches and general stores. It is a life that modulates with the seasons and is tempered by the weather on a day-to-day basis.
Winter is an especially good time to leave the confines of the city and explore the rural coast of FarmCoast. Visiting this rural area serves as a counterpoint to our more complex urban life by viewing a landscape and communities that remain calibrated by the diurnal vicissitudes of the winter.
PRESS ARTICLES
This summer the Boston Globe featured two travel articles on Little Compton and Westport. In June, Tom Haines of the Globe Staff wrote a story about visiting Little Compton on a summer day and launching kayaks at the Sakonnet Point Club.
"Go with the Flow: Whether you are paddling or tasting pinot, water and wind play in this harbor, sun and soil make the landscape lush"
In August, Meredth Goldstein of the Golbe Staff spend a day in Westport writing of the charms of places to stay, dining, and visiting the wineries after dark: "There's a taste for all palates in the Bay State's Westport"
Last summer the Boston Globe also featured another article about Westport: "Sea of Tranquility: Quiet, welcoming town is rich in coastal beauty and pastoral beauty"
Travel and Leisure Magazine has also featured two articles this summer: One article about The Stone House Club opening in Little Compton and another article about Gray's Ice Cream at Tiverton Four Corners being chosen as one of the best ice cream stands in America!
"The Stone House Club Makes Waves in Little Compton" by Darrell Hartman
and "Gray's makes Best Ice Cream Shop list" by Ted Nesi