Our Greens Farms retro logo features the oyster shell above "Est. 1648" — a fitting emblem for a shoreline that has lived by the salt marsh and the Sound since the Bankside landing. The shell speaks to abundance, maritime heritage, and the fertile coast the Bankside Farmers chose; printed in worn, hand-pressed black and white, it wears like something found in a tack room. What makes it Greens Farms is everything around it — the boulder, the marsh, and the beautiful land. And the name still travels: our own Machamux Farm collection carries it north to Redding, where the beautiful land keeps a second address — and where the name's own four-century story, 1714 deed and all, is told in full.
What's with Greens Farms? Greens Farms is Westport's oldest corner — Machamux, the beautiful land of the Pequot, settled by five Bankside Farmers in 1648 and never renamed in spirit since. It is a shoreline village of salt marsh, stone walls, and old trees, holding Connecticut's first state park at its western edge and three and three-quarter centuries of memory under its lawns.
Why People Visit Greens Farms
- Spend a beach day at Sherwood Island State Park — Connecticut's first state park — and walk out to the point for the 9/11 Living Memorial's long view down the Sound.
- Find the Machamux Boulder on the old Common along Green's Farms Road — the 1648 settlement marked in stone.
- See the Greens Farms Congregational Church, the parish that rebuilt after 1779 and never broke its line.
- Swim the town side at Burying Hill Beach, the small crescent with the big history in its name.
- Walk or fish the marsh edges where the onion boats once loaded, and watch the ospreys work New Creek.
- Ride the New Haven Line to the little Green's Farms station and arrive the way a century of villagers did.
