Scott Farm Orchard

Scott Farm is a working 571 acre apple and fruit orchard that has been in active cultivation since 1791 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Most buildings on site date from the early 1900s but go back as far as 1850. The farm was a major filming location for the 1999 Academy Award winning film “The Cider House Rules.” Buildings are clustered in a historic core on a Vermont country road, and the setting is bucolic, with rolling green hills in all directions. Buildings consist of The Farmhouse, originally built in 1850, with multiple additions that keep the character; currently used as offices and housing. The Cow Barn, built in 1862 is a large gable roof open barn currently used for storage upstairs and for The Stone Trust training center downstairs (dirt floor). The 1911 gambrel roof Horse Barn maintains its historic character and will be restored for events in 2025. Original wood throughout, and stalls remain in the lower level. The 1915 U Barn is a unique U shape and used for equipment storage. It is essentially a series of covered sheds. The narrow 1911 Pig Barn is the smallest barn and was used as the fruit pickers’ quarters in The Cider House Rules. The Apple Barn consists of a large event room with cement floor and commercial kitchen. This is connected to an active apple packing warehouse space, an office, and a large cooler. Next to the Apple Barn is a farm market building in a replica of the original chicken barn and a small stand used as a cafe. Notable features of the landscape include a dammed pond with small covered footbridge, acres of artistic dry stone walls built by master builders at The Stone Trust, and the large orchard itself. Acres of fields and forests complete the grounds. Scott Farm is a certified B-Corp wholly owned by The Landmark Trust USA, a nonprofit historic preservation organization.