Hickory Knoll Farm

Updated 2/3/08

Hickory Knoll Farm, situated on a picturesque rolling prairie with an oak savanna, trains and cares for sport and leisure horses. In addition, dressage and carriage driving lessons can be arranged in advance. Various clinics are offered through out the year. Also, during the summer you can sit back in the sun and enjoy watching polo practice on weekdays and games on Sundays.

The farm is located in rural Fitchburg, on Highway M between Highway 14 and Fish Hatchery Road, six miles south of Madison. The University of Wisconsin, Alliant Center and State Capital are all less than fifteen minutes from the farm.

The original portion of the house is an ante-bellum residence constructed as the home of Samuel Greene, who farmed 320 acres of wheat at the time of the Civil War. The kitchen wing was added in the 1890s. The guest wing was moved to the farm and reconstructed. It is a timber framed structure with hundred and seventy year old floors and paneling, providing a warm and friendly environment.

 The large carriage barn is connected to the house in the fashion of preferred by modern farmers in the 1830s. The large barn, the Grady barn, and a workshop store the farm's horse driven vehicles.

The main barn houses twenty-five horses and is connected to the indoor arena. The dressage arena and polo fields are to the north of the main bar, through a grove of oaks and walnut trees.

Eight pastures lie to the east and west, where horses graze during the day. A small orchard, a vegetable garden and flowerbeds surround the house.