Carlisle has a long-standing dedication to giving again to the neighborhood however some causes are notably close to and pricey to us. Stonewall Farm, a non-profit farm and schooling heart in Keene, NH, is the place many people journey out on mountaineering trails and the place our president, Chris Sy, spent faculty summers operating new fence strains all through the property and constructing and sustaining lots of the trails which can be used right this moment. Chris’ youngsters created great recollections of hayrides and crayfish searches throughout Stonewall Farm summer time camps.
Stonewall Farm preserves almost 130 acres of biodiverse lands with over six miles of leisure trails. As soon as a dairy farm, Stonewall Farm grew to become a non-profit in 1994 to share the land and farming with the general public. Immediately, the farm’s mission is to reveal ecological sustainability and domesticate neighborhood by schooling and engagement with native meals methods and our shared pure sources.
Since 1994, generations have loved entry to the farm’s free public areas, mountaineering trails, farm occasions, academic programming and summer time camps. Generations have additionally trod the identical carpeting within the farm’s studying heart and the linoleum within the kitchens because the non-profit was based. By 2023, it was clearly time for a refresh.
Rebecca Todd, Government Director at Stonewall Farm, explains that “we wished to increase our academic packages for youngsters and adults to show about rising and cooking our personal meals, and we additionally deliberate to increase our summer time camps by 25%. It was a precedence to have a clear and welcoming facility.”
In February 2023, Rebecca contacted Chris and requested if Carlisle Vast Plank Flooring may donate flooring for this system room and two kitchens within the Studying Middle. We responded by contributing prefinished clear-coated, White Oak hardwood planks for all of the areas. “Stonewall Farm has been an establishment in Cheshire County for over a century, all the way in which again to its time as a dairy farm. We have been pleased to assist replace areas and help the farm’s mission,” says Chris.
Farm employees pulled up the previous carpeting and linoleum themselves and put in the huge plank flooring utilizing native sources. Rebecca says that “Carlisle was with us each step of the way in which. We had a number of questions they usually have been terribly useful.”
The flooring have been put in previous to April trip camps and have been what Rebecca phrases as “transformative.” “Carlisle’s large present allowed us to pay extra consideration to our bodily construction and create a welcoming, clear, pretty inside setting. We’re thrilled by Carlisle’s generosity and spirit of neighborhood.”
