CANAAN, N.Y. â A local winery s roots are firmly planted in the heritage of four generations of the Bartlett family and the family farm.
Some 50 years after being purchased and being used as a working farm, Flatbrook Farm is now home to a winery that uses fruit harvested from bushes and vines planted by the Bartlett family generations ago.
It all began in 1972, when Edward C. Bartlett bought the farm for his parents, Edward R. and Gladys Bartlett. He wanted to help take care of them and move back [from the state of Washington] to where he had grown up in west Pittsfield, said Peter Bartlett, co-founder and owner of Home Range Winery, adding that white-faced beef cows were raised on the 30-acre farm from the mid-1970s to the 1980s.
New Jersey Herald
WALPACK As Bruce Thomas saw the photographer approach, he held up his string of trout. Wanna picture of what we got? he proudly asked.
Thomas and his brother, William, have been fishing the same spot of the Flatbrook since 1978 and had two rainbow trout on the string mid-Saturday morning as they were calling it a day.
For the past few years, Bruce, from Somerville, makes the trip every trout season opening day from his home in Somerset County to Warwick, New York, to pick up his brother. Then they head for the same spot just downstream of the Roy Bridge, a place most anglers know well because it s like the Mason-Dixon line for trout.