Grace Farms History:

What is now Grace Farms was in the 1940's a patchwork of small-scale farmsteads in Connecticut. The division of land in the New Canaan area was shaped by 19th century agricultural practices, in which old growth deciduous hardwood forests were cleared to make way for fields. 

Over the course of the next 70 years, as agriculture in the area became a thing of the past, secondary growth woodlands recolonized much of the landscape, and New Canaan became much more suburban in character.

Windsome Farms purchased the property from Comstock Farms in 1991, and converted what was a private residence and small farm into an equestrian facility. Additional land was cleared to accommodate 24 paddocks, a harnessed exercise ring and a 30,000 square foot barn lined with 52 stalls. In early 2000, Pacific Farms acquired the property and later rezoned Windsome Farms into a 10-lot subdivision.

Today, Grace Farms Foundation has retained the property's open beauty and is a rare piece of Fairfield County landscape featuring the rolling topography of paddocks and barns, field trees, perennially wet meadows, and a mixed deciduous hardwood and conifer forest edge.