Escobar's Farmhouse Inn
2072 East Main Road, Portsmouth, Rhode Island 02871 401-835-8813 / 401-293-5777
The Inn
Escobar's Farmhouse Inn opened for business in June of 2010 and is owned by Jane Escobar. The inn is located across the street from Escobar Farm, one of Rhode Island's few remaining dairy farms. Our boutique Inn strives to provide a comfortable "home away from home" for our guests. We welcome all of our guests to visit the farm and even watch a mornig or afternoon milking!
Our founders: Louie & Jane Escobar
Louie Escobar never wanted to be anything but a dairy farmer, and despite a tractor accident that left him a quadriplegic, he continued dairying until his passing in October 2022.
The farm was started by Louie’s dad, and in 1972, Louie took over. While Louie always wanted to be a dairy farmer, life on the farm for Jane was also the fulfillment of a city girl’s childhood dream. The two married in 1986 and spent their years together striving to keep the farm viable in the ever-changing dairy industry.
Jane Escobar, in addition to running the Farm, is a highly regarded dairy artificial insemination specialist; she was written up in Hoard’s Dairyman, (8/25/94, page 570) the “New York Times” of dairy farm magazines, for her outstanding record.
She breeds cows of other farmers in the Rhode Island & Massachusetts area with frozen semen of carefully selected bulls, which is collected and stored by very large businesses engaged in the highly technical job of assuring that each calf born will mature into an outstanding milk producer.
The genetic database and registration of these animals and their milk production is the business of the Holstein Association USA in Brattleboro, Vermont.
The Farm
The Farm
Our award-winning dairy farm is located on Middle Road, directly "across the way" from the Inn. and has been a fully operational dairy farm since 1937.
Milking of the cows occurs twice a day, every day at 5:00-6:00 am and 4:30-5:30 pm. All of our guests are cordially invited to wander over to meet owner Jane, General Manager Mike and the farm hands, as well as the cows, heifers and calves!
