About Deerpath Farm : History
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In the 1930’s Francis Farwell of Lake Forest sold Deerpath Farm, consisting of 200 acres, to his fellow townsman Edward Bennett. In those days the Farwells and Bennetts operated it as a working farm, providing unpasteurized dairy products to the local area from Ayrshire cows, and it remained so until the early eighties.
At that time the tenant farmer retired, and the current tenants, who help care for the property, moved into the farmhouse. Katharine Bennett, the daughter-in-law of Edward Bennett, and Deerpath Farm LLC (managed by her son Frederick Phillips) are the owners of the property, which has been in the same family for almost 80 years.

Recently the owners made the decision to develop the property, instead of selling the land outright and forfeiting control of its future. In part this decision was influenced by the family’s desire to see the property responsibly transformed, so many of its appealing features would be retained and most of the natural areas, consisting of mature woods, savannas, open fields, and wetlands, would be appropriately restored and maintained in perpetuity. To this end, in the early 2000s the owners formed Deerpath Farm LLC to develop the property. They established the following Planning Objectives.