Tom Truelove and Lindsay Rush run a pasture-based farm raising heritage breed pork, grass-fed beef, heritage turkeys, and roasting chickens. Their free-range eggs are out of this world. Pork is the farm’s main product, but they also have about 1,000 laying hens, 60 cows, and turkeys. With no pesticides, herbicides, or chemical fertilizers on the pastures, all of the animals are completely hormone and antibiotic free. Truelove Farms products can be found at these Farmer’s Markets in the summer: Stratford Farmer’s Market, Old Greenwich Farmer’s Market, Branford Alps Farmers Market, Monroe Farmers’ Market, Wooster Square, Coventry Farmers’ Market. In winter they will be at City Seed Indoor Market in New Haven. There is a small convenience store at the farm, open weekday afternoons and weekends from 10am-6pm (or later, if you see the open-flag out). You can stop by and pick up anything from a dozen eggs to a top round roast.
Truelove Farms
122 Thomaston Rd., Morris
203-217-6234
truelovefarms@gmail.com
A best kept secret among the locals, complete with swinging picnic tables outside and a no-frills interior café-style dinning space. It is a wonderful place to enjoy simple food (yummy ice cream as well as hamburgers, hot dogs, fries and onion rings), in a casual setting. It does get crowded on weekends.
Popey’s Ice Cream
7 West St., Morris
860-567-0504
West Shore Seafood is a fresh seafood market & eatery in Morris. Outdoor seating only. Perfect summer spot to get a lobster roll or fried clams. Bring a blanket and have yourself a family picnic next to the corn hole on the lawn.
West Shore Seafood
449 Bantam Lake Rd., Morris
860-567-8000
A remarkable experience unfolds each evening in the fire-lit dining rooms of Winvian Farm’s restaurant, where simplicity and indulgence artfully converge to create the ultimate fine dining experience. Chef Chris Eddy creates fresh and spontaneous farm-to-table menus with seasonal ingredients from nearby farms. Daily dinner service 5-10 pm except Tuesday.
Winvian
155 Alain White Rd.
860-567-9600
Since 1950 they have been providing a wide range of perennials, annuals, bulbs, shrubs, vines, amaryllis, and gardening tools and supplies.
White Flower Farm
167 Litchfield Rd, Morris
860-567-8789
harvestmoontimberframe.com
198 East Street, Morris
113 acres of nature provide serenity and tranquility as you experience a transformation through one or several of the spa treatments offered at this luxurious resort. Scrubs, facial treatments, chromo therapy, salt glows, reflexology, craniosacral, Reiki, private yoga, massage, all within the confines of a beautiful building. Couples packages are also offered.
The Winvian Spa
155 Alain White Rd., Morris
860-393-3021
