[1] The Barrett farm is set on 159 acres (64 ha) of land in the rural upland area of northern Wilton and southern Lyndeborough.

Much of its land is now wooded, but there are cleared fields surrounding the farmstead complex, which is located at the end of Barrett Hill Road, and bisected by a formerly public right-of-way known as Old Coach Road, portions of which are lined by old stone walls.

The complex includes an 1803 Federal style brick farmhouse, a 19th-century barn, a garage which was added c. 1920, and a c. 1927 greenhouse which was moved to the farm c.

[2] The farm was established by Ebenezer Barrett, a migrant from Chelmsford, Massachusetts, in 1803.

[2] The center was run by Samuel Kaymen, and it is here that the yogurt maker Stonyfield Farm was founded.