Sylvester Manor Educational Farm Archives

09.10.2020 Around the Island

‘Alive Together’ — Union Chapel ends its summer season

“Speaking of marvels, I am alive together with you, when I might have been alive with anyone under the sun.” These are the words of Pulitzer prize-winning poet Lisel...

09.09.2020 Around the Island

Give a hen a home

Tired of opening the fridge to find there are no eggs for breakfast? Take charge of the situation and enjoy your very own farm-fresh eggs. Sylvester Manor Educational Farm’s...

08.30.2020 Around the Island

Traditions old and new at Union Chapel: Harvest Sunday celebrates Sylvester Manor

The Harvest Festival at Union Chapel in the Grove began around 1895, and has a colorful history, according to Stewart Herman’s book, “God’s Summer Cottage.” It was like “a...

06.23.2020 Around the Island

Windmill, pigs and chickens — oh, my! New opportunities to explore Manor farm

Summer at Sylvester Manor is a quintessential Shelter Island experience, where modern agricultural innovation meets history. In this case, the history stretches back to the Island’s 1652 settling and...

06.19.2020 News

Sylvester Manor open for Juneteenth, Islanders invited to pay respect

Today, Friday, June 19, Islanders are invited to come to the Afro-Indigenous Burial Ground at Sylvester Manor to pay tribute to the memory of the enslaved on the Juneteenth...

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‘Alive Together’ — Union Chapel ends its summer season

Give a hen a home

Traditions old and new at Union Chapel: Harvest Sunday celebrates Sylvester Manor

Windmill, pigs and chickens — oh, my! New opportunities to explore Manor farm

Sylvester Manor open for Juneteenth, Islanders invited to pay respect