Stowe Farm Community

An Intentional Farm Community located in Colrain, Massachusetts

Three little pigs

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Stowe Farm’s three little pigs are still settling in. We couldn’t get heritage pigs this year. These guys are very different.

Borscht(ish) – First course for mama to be

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Haynes has been experimenting with new recipes, cooking specially for our daughter during her pregnancy and found this cold beet soup in a Ukrainian cookbook, “Mamushka” by Olla Hercules. We love borscht and thought this was an interesting variation that is refreshing in the summer, so nutritious and looks pretty. It calls for brining the… [Read More]

Dumplings – Second course for mama to be

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For the main course, after the refreshing beet soup course, Haynes made these delicious steamed dumplings also adapted from the Ukrainian cookbook “Mamushka” by Olla Hercules. These dumplings have an Asian and Mongol heritage and are traditionally made with ground pork filling. Haynes made them instead with some left-over smoked pork belly that he mixed… [Read More]

Entertaining ourselves

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Not sure who put it here, but this game was appreciated on a gloomy day, on a road which is very empty these days. I was feeling Meh until I moved to the Cha-cha box and danced among the bees! Thank you, chalk-fairy, whoever you are!  

Colrain’s Communication Hut is here!

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It’s really happening! The communication hut, which will house the major electronics for Colrain’s new FIBER BROADBAND NETWORK! They have been installing all of the new poles too. We’re getting there! Thank you to the Broadband Advisory Committee, for all of your efforts and long hours to bring Colrain into the 21st century!