Medlyn Farms

Medlyn Farms is awesome. I shopped there earlier this week and filled my refrigerator with luscious tomatoes, the sweetest corn, cukes, zucchini, and raspberries. It’s been a feast every day.

Been going here all my life… When I was a kid they used to deliver fresh milk to our house in a glass bottle! Now there’s no milk, but lots of great native veggies and se amazing homemade jellies, jams and treats!

Medlyn Farms is one of the many terrific things about Branford and Stony Creek. It’s a treat to go there to get fresh corn and tomatoes in season, along with eggs laid by free range chickens, and numerous other locally grown vegetables. One particularly great offering is their greenhouse tomatoes available long before regular tomato season. You can’t match a summer tomato, but these are close and far better than what is sold in the supermarket.

A big kudos goes to the Medlyn family for not selling out to big development and being one of the few CT family farms to actually exist very close to the shoreline. Because I can tell you that their expansive land sitting next to the beautiful Route 146 has been the bullseye of many local developers’ target for many years now. By the way, their land actually stretches much further to the north than what you actually see on Route 146. Check out the trails on the Pinchot Preserve to see some really interesting and cool terrain.
Medlyn sells mostly sell eggs, tomatoes, firewood, and a few other farm produce items. Their eggs are produced from their very own chickens and cost approximately $ 3 for a dozen. Their roadside food stand is usually open during the summer months and closed during the winter months.