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* * * * * HISTORY * * * * * Winter scene Now the home of Nancy C. Wisner and Frederick A. Simon, the farm dates back to 1850. It was one of the first dairy farms here on Lower Michigan Road.   Early owners were Orville Fifield, F. Daley (1853) E. Segar (1869) Cerro's (1976) In the Pittsfield history book "Glimpse of the Past Pittsfield Vermont"  printed in 1976 There are three photo's of the farm.  Some of the earliest settlers were located on this road, where Captain Charles Goodrich (1720-1816) from Pittsfield, Massachusetts built the first mills in 1792, and named the settlement after his home town.  In the early days of this area there was a settlement higher up the mountain.  The access roads, above and below the West Branch of the Tweed River , were named for their destination "Michigan" .  There are few signs of this cluster of dwellings remaining. The central portion of our barn was built in the 1930's and was expanded to 8,000 sq. ft. by the previous owners and became widely known as "Cerro's Furniture Barn" Established in June 1956 and closed after 30 years in November, 1986. Today, it houses greenhouses where gourmet Shiitake and Oyster mushrooms are grown, a work shop, an antique and collectable section, our private storage, three horse stalls, two sheep shelters, and more. You will find a 3,600 sq. ft. Vegetable Garden, bee hives, fruit trees, electric fences, a chicken house and pen, a turkey house and pen, and a 100 year old chicken house (disassembled and moved here in pieces from a half mile down the road). At this time we have animals such as a Lippitt Morgan Gelding, Beldon, a rescued  PMU Paint/Clydesdale cross Gelding, Cochese. Registered  Shetland sheep. Various breeds of layer hens and roosters, turkeys, guinea fowl, a wandering free pair , an Americauna hen and a rumpless Americauna rooster  A North West Farm Terrior "Sarah" Eleven Japanese Koi  in a 3,000 gallon 6 foot deep pond, surrounded by a beautiful perennial garden. We  raise turkeys and chickens for our and our neighbors freezers,  provide beautiful Ameraucana blue, green, khaki and pink eggs, and brown barred rock eggs  for sale to the public.      We offer FREE "Made fresh daily" Manure for gardeners.      We hope you will enjoy visiting us here at Tweed Valley farm . Nancy and Fred To Photo album