Mainstone Farm Stand

Specialties

OUR OWN

Farm Fresh Vegetables

Grass Fed Beef

Local Honey

100% Maple Syrup

Corn Meal

Fresh Pork

History

Established in 1871.

The story begins in 1871, when William Perkins drove from his home in Brookline to Wayland by carriage, in three hours, in order to purchase 700 acres of land that was to be called Mainstone Farm. The name came from a small farm in Wales. Three years later, he bought a bull and seven cows from the channel Island of Guernsey and began the first Guernsey dairy herd in America. The farm has been in the Hamlen family ever since and is now one of the few operating farms in the Boston area.

The Guernsey herd grew to 150 milking cows and by the 1950s, the farm had its own milk route. However, in 1962, the main barn was destroyed by fire and the family decided that it was no longer practical to maintain the dairy farm.

During the 1970s, an Arabian horse operation was started and Mr. Hyman Schick, from Watertown Dairy, in Wayland, farmed hundreds of acres of sweet corn. In the 1980s, a rare Belted Galloway beef herd was started and grew to over 40 head of cattle.

Meet the Manager

Tim H.

Manager

In a nutshell, Tim and Pauline came to Mainstone in 1993, with their two young sons, Tim Jr. and Tom, then 3 and 1 ½. Tim a fourth generation farmer, grew up on the North Shore of Massachusetts, raising and showing Devon cattle, and working in all areas of agriculture. Pauline a third generation farmer, grew up in Rhode Island on a vegetable farm. Wanting to continue with the tradition, as well as give their boys the kind of upbringing they had, enjoying the outdoors with an appreciation for nature, hard work, and quality food but with farm land diminishing and land prices rising, they ventured onto the avenue of managing a farm, leading them to Mainstone.