LITCHFIELD – Wilson Farm hopes to open as planned on Mother’s Day weekend, despite a three-alarm fire that damaged a barn and ruined nearly $25,000 worth of seed on Friday, owner Jim Wilson said.
“Anybody who’s been through a fire knows it’s a pretty unnerving thing, but we’ve got a pretty good plan in place,” Wilson said Saturday. “We’re planning to rebuild.”
Almost 50 years after a fire leveled a barn on the same plot of land, emergency crews from 13 surrounding towns responded to a blaze at its replacement building at 144 Route 3A Friday, near the Hudson line.
“It could’ve been a lot worse,” Wilson said. “The biggest thing is no one got hurt. The fire department did a fabulous job.”
Investigators still were looking into the cause of the fire Saturday, Wilson said.
Litchfield fire issued a press release stating the state fire marshal’s office ruled the fire “undetermined due to the extensive damage to the area of initial origin.”
Structural engineers examined the 40-foot-by-100-foot building Saturday to see whether it could be salvaged – the smell of ash still lingering at the scene.
The barn, which housed “a little bit of everything,” Wilson said, had half its roof cave in on tractors and other equipment in the fire.![]()
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