Protected by: U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS), CT Department of Agriculture, Town of Middletown, and Connecticut Farmland Trust
Year Protected: 2020
Acres: 41
The 41-acre Stanley Boniewski Farm in Middletown was protected at the end of the summer of 2020.
“We are very proud of preserving the farm,” said Andrew Chiaravallo, co-owner of the farm. His family bought the farm during the Depression-era in the 1920s. Today, Andrew and co-owner Bonnie Scheidler lease the land to a farmer who uses the property to pasture non-milking dairy cows and raise hay.
Like most farms in Connecticut, the farm is nestled between forested land and a heavily developed suburban area. The fields that make up the farm are healthy and well-established, which is ideal for the next generation of farmers. The landowners’ current goal is to continue leasing the property, but they aim to sell the land. With the good fields that Stanley Boniewski Farm offers, the possibilities for the next farmers are endless.
Stanley Boniewski Farm was protected in a joint effort by partners Connecticut Department of Agriculture, USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Services (USDA-NRCS), the Town of Middletown, and CFT.
September 1, 2020.