Guests can feed the animals, collect eggs, brush and pet the donkey, milk, hay, or help with barn chores. Children are welcome, and have their own play area in the living room complete with puzzles, a play farm, and dolls. The Inn at Mountain View Creamery, East Burke, Vt. Built as a gentleman's farm, it supplied meat and dairy products for Darling's Fifth Avenue hotel in Manhattan. There are all kinds of farm animals here, organic vegetable and perennial gardens, and 440 acres to meander.
Guests are, in fact, welcome to graze as they walk the vegetable gardens.
Shadowbrook Farms, Fairfield, Vt. They offer farm working vacations where you can learn to sugar, run a dairy, drive a tractor, and enjoy farm and sugarbush tours, hayrides, horseback riding, and tent camping, among other things. And, they welcome children and pets. Historic Brookside Farms Country Inn and Antique Shop, Orwell, Vt. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the inn structure goes back to 1789, when a large Colonial farmhouse was built.