Stowe Farm Community

An Intentional Farm Community located in Colrain, Massachusetts

New greenhouse fan

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  Community members recently got together to add automatic ventilation to our “Mark Ward” recycled glass greenhouse. Peter installed a louver on the west side, and Lynn and TJ installed a fan on the east side. The fan operates off a thermostat and will automatically come on when the greenhouse gets too hot. This will… [Read More]

Outsmarting a Pig!

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Haynes is always trying to outsmart pigs, this time with some success. The challenge was to provide a continuous source of water, on gravity pressure, that is relatively impervious to pig fascination and abuse. Pigs are strong and curious; they like to rub up against anything new or just anything that has edges. Their curiosity… [Read More]

The joys of garlic

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So far, we pickled and put away the scapes, and had a couple rounds of garlic scape pesto. They made it through the dry spell. We’re still having great luck with Music and German Extra Hardy garlic. The scapes freeze well, and make an easy pesto dinner throughout the winter. Now on to the garlic!… [Read More]

At last, Broadband is coming to Colrain!

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“We’re getting closer by the Day!”  Another milestone was completed when the Massachusetts Broadband Institute (MBI) had their fiber routed and connected to our communications hut. MBI is the state organization that brings the middle-mile broadband connection to Colrain. In a few weeks our construction company will begin installing the last-mile fiber throughout Colrain according to… [Read More]

Quarantine Goslings

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Martha McLure                                                                                                                                                                                                               April, 2020 Back in December at a cookie making party, Haynes told me about his newly formed 4-H club. I asked if he was interested in incubating any eggs with the kids.  Last year my Sebastapol goose, Nosey, hatched fertile eggs, but she did not know… [Read More]

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]