Casey Farm/Historic New England

Located by the bay on the ancestral homeland of the Narragansett People, Casey Farm once produced food for local and coastal markets and was one of many plantations tied to slavery. Today, farm managers raise organically grown produce for a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program and the seasonal Casey Farm Market. Choose from a wide range of farm-based education programs. Tour the farmyard to visit the animals, the cemetery where generations of Caseys are memorialized, and the farm house museum gallery featuring family portraits and cultural objects representing all the people of this land.

Located near Newport, Casey Farm had access to goods imported from England, enabling its early owners to live fashionably. The region’s economy was tied to the slave trade, and this plantation was one of several in the region supplying plantations in the South and the West Indies. By 1755, soon after the Casey farmhouse was built, 19% of people in the county were enslaved. Casey Farm was one of many Rhode Island plantations that used forced labor by people of Indigenous and African descent to care for crops, animals, and domestic duties. Enslaved people allowed the farm to prosper, so centuries later, Historic New England could steward the land. By the nineteenth century, tenant farmers worked the land, but the Caseys retained two rooms in the house for their own visits. The Casey family pursued other careers and some influenced national events. Eight generations of them owned the farm from 1702, keeping the original 300 acres together, and donating a working farm with a farmhouse and barnyard buildings in 1955.

Today, CSA members receive fresh, certified organic vegetables, fruits, herbs, and flowers, and a relationship to the land on which the produce is grown. Buy a share for the 2025 summer season, or contact the farm office for more information. Join us at the Casey Farm Market every Saturday during the summer and shop locally grown and produced goods, produce, and food.