Lontano

The farm gathers around a bend in the road: farmhouse and barns on one side, and up the hill the cluster the family calls Lontano — the Winter House and Summer House, the Ice House, the Wood Shed, and Sarah Ames Field running down to the tree line. Summers here are for haying, swimming, porch suppers, and the kind of repairs that become stories.

The houses are simple and old, and that is the point. They ask a little work of everyone and give back mornings with fog in the field, loons on the pond down the road, and the ridge going blue at dusk.

Lontano sits inside the wider Bemis Farm, with the common lands and barns under The Farm Trust (1987) and this homestead under its own family trust since 1996. Since 2018 a conservation easement with the Lakes Region Conservation Trust protects the fields and woods from ever being developed.

Visits, documents, and trust business for Lontano live on the family site after sign-in — not on these public pages.