Access to the pond is from two boat launch locations.

From South Circuit Avenue View Map look for an unmarked sandy road going toward the pond.  Follow about 0.1 mile where it meets a boardwalk for the Landmark Trail.  Launch your car top boat off this boardwalk area.

From Seaview Avenue View Map park along the Oceans side of Seaview Avenue and carry your car top boat over the guard rail to launch off this sandy area.

When Oak Bluffs voters in 1992 purchased land for a new elementary school, they also purchased an abutting 17.5 acres of meadow, pond, and wetland to serve as an “outdoor laboratory” for pupils. A conservation easement over this land was awarded to the land bank, which manages it both for student study and for general public enjoyment. A trail connects South Circuit Avenue and the school and then continues past the town wellfield into the Trade Wind Fields Preserve, a superb natural experience only minutes from Oak Bluffs Center. Also available for exploration is the 9.7-acre knob of land projecting into the Farm Pond from Beach Road.

The boardwalk in the scenic preserve area and the viewing platform with a bench next to the boardwalk are ADA-accessible.

In 1733 a tannery was established on the shores of Farm Pond. In the 1800s the property was used for farming and grazing livestock; the land that is now the preserve continued to be farmed up until at least 1938.