A “ribit” of heaven on Earth
The original one-room
stone farmhouse was built in the 1780's, along with a smokehouse and a Pennsylvania
bank barn. According to the area’s first tax map, the 250-acre working
farm was recorded in 1798.Mitch and Patti Adler
purchased the property in 2001. After years of renovation — exposing
and repointing 200-year-old stone walls, adding private bathrooms to adjoining
bedrooms and installing central air conditioning — the Adlers
were ready for innkeeping.Though most of the
sprawling acreage is gone, the farm is no less inviting. The best 5 acres
of meadows, woodlands, gardens and orchards were preserved and now sit along
a treasure of a road.The barn and smokehouse
remain, as do old stone-walled gardens built from the foundations of long-forgotten
farm buildings. Relic cisterns border the barn and an antique cast iron
pump still carries water to the surface of a 30-foot artesian well. Somewhere
in time a tractor shed/corn crib was added, as was a Quaker-style garage.
Two sheep — Ben and Jerry, grateful marketplace fugitives, several
stray cats and an array of native wildlife — find reprieve, food
and comfort on the premises. Mitch, Patti and all
the critters invite you to join them in their own “ribit” of heaven.
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