Explore the loop trail on this local treasure and vibrant working farm, taking in the surrounding woodlands, fields, and wetlands.
Plan Your Visit
- Overview
- Ideas for Your Visit
- Admission & Hours
- Directions & Contact Info
- Facilities & Accessibility
- Property Map
- Regulations & Advisories
Overview
Open fields and clusters of farm buildings make up a scenic, pastoral landscape and rare treasure within the Greater Boston area. With a history of active agricultural use dating back more than 300 years, the farm remains an invaluable cultural resource today. The Trustees continues that legacy through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program based on the property, along with a vibrant barnyard, farm stand, and teaching kitchen.
Our CSA program provides a way to eat locally and experience a “taste” of farm life. You can support local farms and local food by joining our CSA at Powisset. Vegetable CSAs feature fresh, local, organic produce from June to October, and seasonal meat CSAs include 100% grass-fed beef and lamb and pasture-raised pork and chicken. Click here to see the current list of CSA options.
Ideas for Your Visit
During your visit, stroll down the farm lane, say hello to the barnyard animals, and admire the rows of vegetables and herbs. Take the loop trail beyond the cultivated land to an upland oak forest, a pair of brooks, vernal pools, and wooded wetlands, and gaze across furrowed croplands and thick hayfields attracting white-tailed deer, wild turkeys, and grassland-nesting bobolinks. Mowed trails through the hay fields link to the adjacent, 1,200-acre Hale Reservation, while Noanet Woodlands is situated across the street.
Admission & Hours
FREE to all.
Directions & Contact Info
39 Powisset Street
Dover, MA 02030
Telephone: 508.785.0339
E-mail: charlesrivervalley@thetrustees.org
Get driving directions on Google Maps.
From I-95/Rt. 128: Exit 31B onto Rt. 109 West. Follow for less than 1 mile and take a right on Dover Rd. Follow for 2.5 miles. Take left into farm immediately after big gray barn. Farm office is on ground floor, underneath barn.
From Medfield Center: Take Rt. 109 east, take left onto Hartford St. Follow for 1.5 mi. and take left onto Walpole St. Follow for 0.75 mi. and take right onto Powisset St. After 0.25 mi., take right immediately before big gray barn. Farm office is on ground floor, underneath barn.
Please follow the signs and park in the lot on the right side of the driveway. When exiting, please follow signs for the one-way exit, passing the pond and up the small hill out to Powisset Street.
Facilities & Accessibility
Accessible features
Accessible restrooms
Property Map
A trail map is posted on the bulletin board in the parking area. Download a trail map before your visit.
Regulations & Advisories
- Please help us keep our campers safe ~ There is no public access to our barnyard and children’s play area on weekdays 9AM – 3PM through August 21. Thank you for your cooperation.
- Authorized seasonal bow hunting is allowed on this reservation with written permission for a limited number of hunters through a deer management program administered by The Trustees. Per MassWildlife regulations, hunting is permitted from the first Monday in October through December each year, from ½ hour before sunrise all day until ½ hour after sunset, Monday through Saturday. Hunting is not allowed on Sundays. Signage is posted at the property listing safety precautions and requirements. Learn more about hunting on Trustees properties. Any questions may be directed to The Trustees at info@thetrustees.org.
- Please respect restricted-access areas, and do not open gates, touch or feed livestock, or interrupt farm operations.
- Dogs are not allowed. If you would like to walk your dog before or after your farm visit, you may take your pet to The Trustees’ Noanet Woodlands, located adjacent to Powisset Farm.
- For your safety, please observe all posted signs. Please note that we maintain an electric deer fence around all of our cultivated fields. Please assume that the fence is on at all times.
- Bicycles and biking is not allowed on the trails at Powisset Farm.
- PHOTOGRAPHY: We ask that photographers or their clients become Supporting Level Members before conducting portrait sessions at this property. Click here for more information, and to request permission for any portrait sessions. The Trustees of Reservations reserves the right, and may give permission to its designated photographers and videographers, or to outside media, to photograph or video visitors and program participants at all its facilities and properties.
