The Carbon Fooprint of the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture

1 Introduction The area known as Pocantico Hills lies along the western edge of Westchester County, New York. John D. Rockefeller began buying the land in Pocantico Hills in 1890’s, creating a private estate that encompassed 3,600 acres (1,456.8 ha). The estate ran largely uninterrupted through forests, farmland and open fields. The stone barns, built in the 1930’s, were commissioned by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to serve as the center of a dairy farm, so that the Rockefeller family could have fresh milk at all times. In the 1970’s, Peggy Rockefeller, the wife of David Rockefeller, began a successful cattle- breeding operation. The Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, a 501(c)3 nonprofit educational farm and center with a partner restaurant, Blue Hill at Stone Barns, is now located on 80 acres (32,37 ha) of the much larger Rockefeller estate in Pocantico Hills, Kykuit. The Rockefeller State Park Preserve is another former section of the estate. The Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, as it exists today, was created by David Rockefeller and his daughter, Peggy Dulany, along with their associate James Ford, to honor the memory of Peggy Rockefeller, who died in 1996. They are also co-founders of the American Farmland Trust, an organization devoted to promoting healthy farming practices