Day pass for a family of 5 at Flamig Farm located at 7 Shingle Mill Road, West Simsbury, CT 06092

Founded in 1907 by Herman Flamig who was Nevin’s Great Grandfather and a German immigrant, Flamig Farm has survived being (among other things) a 12 cow dairy, an egg retailer with a few thousand producing chickens, a top soil mining operation, a snow plowing service and an organic vegetable farm with 10 cultivated acres. At one time, Flamig Farm had three teams of draft horses and did lots of individual and customized hayrides as well as carriage rides for weddings.

One part of our history often comes up when people wonder about the big backwards EGGS sign on our barn. Well, years ago, an artist friend of ours told us he wanted to put something on the end of our chicken barn. That sounded interesting but we were really too busy at the time to pay much attention to what he was doing, and before long he invited us to the Farm workshop to show us what he had created. We found 4 huge 8 foot tall letters that said EGGS. We knew zoning would not let us put up an advertising sign that big. Finally someone said, “Let’s put it up backward and call it “ART.” And so we did.