Stowe Farm Community

An Intentional Farm Community located in Colrain, Massachusetts

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Animal Wisdom

Inspired by Wendell Berry’s poem, The Peace of Wild Things (see below), we are starting a gallery of wild and not-so-wild things who Stowe Farm Community has known over the years. We are grateful to all of our furry, scaled, and winged companions for the wisdom and comfort they’ve given us.

Inventing a waterer for smart pigs
Little Bear, our goat, at Stowe Farm by Harley Kira
Lynn with goslings at Stowe Farm
Jessica petting Papa
newly hatched Stowe Farm leghorn chicks
frogs at Katywil Farm Community
Beautiful turtle visitor
Stowe Farm baby chicks and humans
'Chocolate' heritage turkeys raised lovingly
Making dog food at Stowe
Stowe Farm goats begging
Nelle,Frou,Friz
snugglingGoslings
Stowe Farm goats
Peter's ducks take a winter swim at Stowe Farm Community
Katywil family photos, Theo and Nayla
Cider pressing at Stowe Farm
new pigletts at Stowe Farm Community
3 day old Stowe Farm doeling needs a splint
Stowe Farm heritage breed Thanksgiving turkeys
Arlo feeding fish at Stowe Farm
Goose Frou spreading wings
Cleopatra, the goat and Chelsea, the human

The Peace of Wild Things

When despair for the world grows in me
And I wake in the night at the least sound
In fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
Rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
Of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
Waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Wendell Berry

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  • One house and final building lot for sale at Stowe Farm!
  • 1078 SF House for Sale
  • Spring!
  • A Beautiful Working Truck for Stowe Farm Community!
  • Rock climbing and Woodchip Mountain

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