Hilltop Hanover Farm & Environmental Center

Hilltop Hanover Farm is a bucolic 400-year old historic working farm in Yorktown Heights, Westchester County New York. This farm and historic land is also in a critical environmental area of the Croton Watershed, which supplies drinking water to Westchester County and NYC. From the 1930s to the early 1990s the farm was a prize-winning dairy farm, home to Guernsey and champion Holstein cattle. However, by 1991, the breeding program for Hilltop Hanover Holsteins ceased and the entire herd, 123 head was sold at auction. When the herd was sold, there was tremendous pressure to convert the land into a condominium complex. However; with strong support from local residents, the County of Westchester purchased the 187 acres of the original 250 acre farm and surrounding woodlands in 2003. The Countys mission was to provide watershed protection, protect open space and preserve the areas agricultural heritage. In 2011, the non-profit organization The Friends of Hilltop Hanover Farm an...