Stowe Farm Community

An Intentional Farm Community located in Colrain, Massachusetts

Frog days

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Usually all of the frogs are over in Katie and Justin’s pond, but this year they found a second swimming hole. They are quite talkative, but it’s a beautiful sound – except for the one that sounds like a fire alarm with a low battery! We checked all of our alarms before discovering it coming… [Read More]

Visitor

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Neighbors, Look who was knocking on our porch door, too short to reach the door bell. I know it just looks like a squirrel. Up close he looked like a fearsome Ground Hog! Not a good neighbor to have. By the time I’d gone to put shoes on he had vanished. We wondered if he… [Read More]

Support local economy and food you can trust

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Now is the perfect opportunity to support our local economy. We are fortunate to have so many awesome farmers and skilled crafts people in and around Colrain. Not only are you supporting them and our local economy, but the freshness, quality, flavors, and nutritional values are miles above factory farms. You’ll never go back. Here… [Read More]

Family in the Gardens

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By Karen   This spring some of my family members went full tilt into enlarging or creating new gardens as COVID 19 has had us all at home and they have been eager to get outside and dig into projects both large and small. My husband decided to double the size of our veggie garden… [Read More]

Milling local lumber

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By Michael The portable bandsaw sawmill is owned and operated by our neighbor, Matt Gancz.  It was built by a Menonite craftsman in the Midwest.  Matt met him in the Amish area of eastern Pennsylvania to take delivery of the machine. This timber for a post and beam shed is from our managed woodlot and… [Read More]