THE garden lovers event of the year, dealers tender rare plants and antique garden accessories while special talks and tours raise funds for Women’s Support Services. Usually held in May.
Lime Rock Park, Lakeville
860-364-1080
tradesecretsct.com
Instagram: @trade_secretsct
The Sharon Playhouse is a regional, non-profit theater producing high-quality performances with Broadway actors as well as talented local community members. Its mission is to entertain the community of Northwest Connecticut and beyond, while also serving as a teaching theater to encourage aspiring actors and other theater professionals of all ages to develop their craft.
Sharonplayhouse.org
49 Amenia Rd
860-364-7469
Instagram: @sharonplayhouse
The complex includes three nature sanctuaries along with additional private parcels of land.
Sharon Audubon Center
325 Cornwall Bridge Rd, Sharon
860-364-0520
Instagram: @sharonauduboncenter
The mission of the Sharon Land Trust is to act as stewards of the lands through preservation and conservation for the benefit of nature and the community. The Trust holds conservation easements on more than 1800 acres and owns more than 1400 acres. This land will remain open and unspoiled in perpetuity, for the use and enjoyment of everyone now and forever.
The Land Trust is always in need of volunteers! They can match a volunteer project to fit the volunteers interest.
Sharon Land Trust
P.O. Box 1027, Sharon
860-364-5137
Instagram: @sharonlandtrust
Produce from this garden in West Cornwall goes to the food pantry at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Amenia Union, which feeds more than 120 people each week. The garden is always looking for donations and, in season, for volunteers to help with planting, weeding and harvesting. Contact Mary Gates.
Women’s Support Services creates social change to end interpersonal, relationship violence by challenging attitudes and beliefs about power, control, and gender norms and by advocating for victims and survivors. This organization provides services to people suffering emotional, sexual or physical abuse.
They use volunteers regularly, either for special events or in its office.
Women’s Support Services
13a Porter Street
860-364-1080
Founded in 1998 as a private residence, LionRock Farm is a 600 acre working farm and destination wedding and events venue in Sharon, Connecticut. Located within Litchfield County, this area is known as the gateway to the Berkshires with an abundance of lakes and rivers, trails, sports, skiing, shopping and fine dining nearby.
Lionrock Farm
30 Hosier Road
Sharon, CT
860-364-5654
Instagram: @lionrockfarm
One of the town of Sharon’s oldest and largest family farms, Wike Brothers Farm has been owned and worked by the same family for almost 150 years. The farm’s roadside store sells cuts of beef and pork, sausages, eggs, apple-smoked bacon, and maple syrup.
Wike Brothers’ Farm
38 White Hollow Road
Sharon, CT
860-364-5765
Helen Killmer has been offering one-on-one and group fitness classes in her Sharon studio for years. Within the walls of this beautifully serene barn studio, she offers endurance spin, S.W.A.T., yoga workshops and kettle bell training, just to name a few of the classes available. Suzanne Oliver teaches Pilates mat classes as well as private Pilates training on the reformer, tower and chair at the studio. Call the studio for class times and availability or email [email protected]
Helen Killmer
41 Gay St
860-364-9350
Casual French ambiance in Sharon with signature crepes and other traditional fare.
Le Gamin
10 Gay Street
860-397-5382
This family run farm has been around for more than 30 years and has developed from a simple road side farm stand selling locally grown produce to a full scale, extensive garden center, farm market and fine food market. They grow their own corn, tomatoes, lettuce, potatoes, squash; and they also sell locally produced berries, milk and dairy products, cheese, home-baked breads, pies, jellies, and honey.
Paley’s Farm Market
230 Amenia Rd (Route 343)
860-364-0674
Instagram: @paleysfarmmarket
Sharon Farm Market sells seafood (sushi rolls are plentiful and fresh), bakery items (baguettes are the best around), meat, pizza, deli, organic produce, cut fruit, and flowers.
The Edward is a charming wine and cocktail bar located off the green in Sharon. Their menu items include meat and cheese plates, dumplings, and flatbreads. This summer brings a variety of visiting chefs and pop-up food items to their restaurant. Visit their website or Instagram page for more info.
The Edward
19 West Main St, Sharon
860-397-5259
Instagram: @theedwardct
B. Johnstone & Co is a fashion boutique in Sharon owned by designer and stylist Bartley Johnstone. This boutique specializes in designer vintage clothing and accessories as well as new fashion items and luxury goods.
B. Johnstone
10 Gay St
860-397-5726
The Gay-Hoyt House, built in 1775, is considered a typical example of a Yankee village home of the better kind, built of brick rather than wood, with its central hall, end chimneys, conventional fenestration and room plan. The use of brick in Connecticut was never very common. The front and south walls are laid in Flemish bond, and the north and rear are so-called American. So strong was the Yankee tradition that instead of running the end walls above the gable end, as in Dutch houses, the overhanging sloping gable was preferred. The fine points are the interesting treatment of the window heads, the simple light over the front door with a slight arching of the brickwork above. The stringcourse was added to break the monotony of the wall surface and to mark the stories. The front porch is an addition, built a few years later than the house.
18 Main St, Sharon
860-364-5688
While you are at The Sharon Country Inn, you can enjoy many New England attractions and traditions unique to Connecticut and the nearby Berkshires of Massachusetts. The famous Hudson Valley of New York is also right next door.
Participate in an array of seasonal activities, from racecar driving and race watching, to annual ski jump competition, summer stock theater, and much more! Comfortable and attractive rooms with modern amenities are waiting for you.
1 Calkinstown Road, Sharon
860-364-0036
sharoncountryinn.com
Instagram: @sharoncountryinn
The complex includes three nature sanctuaries along with additional private parcels of land.
Sharon Audubon Center
325 Cornwall Bridge Rd, Sharon
860-364-0520
Instagram: @sharonauduboncenter
Building bridges between the past, present and future through programs, collections and exhibitions is the mission of the Sharon Historical Society.
18 Main Street, Sharon
860-364-5688
sharonhist.org
Instagram: @sharonhistoricalsociety
