Notes from the host
Closter Estate Farmstay
Renovating? Relocating? Welcome home! A turnkey, fully furnished 6 bedroom estate home in the heart of Closter, on Closter Farm, available for monthly (31 days+) rental. Just bring groceries, we have everything else (you can actually buy all your groceries at our boutique Farmstand!).
The Farm's Estate Home, 7 miles from NYC, sits perched on a private, peaceful hill above a gorgeous 7-acre certified-Organic working farm. The spacious, gracious funky Estate home with a giant private pool and Park Avenue-sized rooms sits inside the fence of a private, Oasis-like estate.
Entering through an arched entry hall, a gracious center hall spans a giant Formal Living Room, Formal Dining Room with table for 10, a Chef's Kitchen with Wolf and Sub Zero appliances, and a Barn/Family Room which overlooks our working greenhouse where the farms seedlings germinate. The master bedroom is on the first floor and the 5 upstairs bedrooms, each with en suite full bath overlooking the Closter Farm & Livestock Co fields.
Drinking your morning coffee or a sundowner cocktail you'll gaze out on 7 acres of verdant organic fields of scented beds of thyme, rosemary, garlic; an orchard of mature apple trees; even an apiary for honey. And vegetables, too—butternut squash and beets; rocket and radishes; peppers of impossibly bright hue and salad greens of many kinds.
Your stay will include a welcome fridge stocked with a farmers selection of the freshest possible farm produce. For the remainder of your stay you'll be as close as you can get to our Farmstand selling produce from the farm and products curated from other local small scale producers. You will also receive a tour of the gardens and our Organic, regenerative approach to raising over 70 types of heirloom vegetables and pastured chickens. If you like it you can spend an hour, a day or a week in the fields with our staff learning all about the operations of our small farm.
The Farm's Estate Home is also home to most whimsical private collection of art by Duke Riley - American Artist and Patriot. He has been featured in the New York Times on multiple occasions, most recently June 16, 2022 for his Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum which runs June 17, 2022-April 23, 2023.
For real, a Farm Stay 45 minutes from Broadway. In the heart of beautiful Closter NJ (that's right, Tree City USA), with a host of fantastic restaurants (several of which buy our produce!), a CMX Premium Movie Theater and a Whole Foods 1 mile away, and hikes along the Hudson River and the Palisades Park and so much more.
You will drive into the 7-acre farm off of Closter Dock Road, just 1 mile from the Palisades Parkway. The automatic gate will open to the Farmstand store and parking lot. Feel free to stop the store anytime it's open to learn about the behind the scenes operation of an on-farm market. The driveway to the Farm's Estate Home winds past the store through the 7 acre parklike property with mature specimen trees. The Farm Estate home sits toward the back of the property overlooking the Great Lawn to the East, the Oak Grove to the North surrounded by the gorgeous operating Organic Closter Farm.
Huge private pool is 10 feet deep, unheated, and a total blast.
Bicycle enthusiasts are only 1 mile from the famous 9W Bike Route which contains over 100+ miles on open roads consisting of rolling hills and well over 1500 feet of elevation from the George Washington Bridge to Nyack.
Farmhands will be in the fields during the days (7am-4pm) and available to explain our practices and assist you with bespoke educational volunteering and learning opportunities according to your interest, time and energy. You will have plenty of privacy in the Farm's Estate Home which is set back on a hill, and buffered by an orchard, mature trees and beautiful landscaping. Our farm's Greenhouse is used to start seedlings and sits on the covered porch adjacent to the Family / Barn room (please see pictures). 1 farmhand will access that Green house daily during the hours of 11am-2pm to tend to our seedlings.
Events on the farm are listed on our website and include seasonally tours, yoga, and various other, all of which you'll have the option to join. Your educational experience can be tailored to your time, interests and capabilities for additional fees.
To make your stay as smooth as possible, a few items:
*Cleaners - we can help arrange at additional expense.
*Trash - you can bring trash up to the front, or we can assist. If we assist, all trash must be neatly placed in bags inside garbage cans. Our staff will not take trash if not neatly placed in sealed trash bags.
*Events - any events held on farm must be approved in advance. Extra charges apply generally starting at double the number of guests approved for your stay, and certainly if any outside vendors are involved. We can potentially assist in events planning for a fee of $200 per hour.
*Check in and CheckOut times are firm and required for our cleaning staff to plan.
*Please remove all your personal items from bathrooms, fridge, freezer and pantry upon leaving. Failure to do so will result in added cleaning charges.
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