Stowe Farm Community

An Intentional Farm Community located in Colrain, Massachusetts

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!

Invest locally

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This is the time to invest locally instead of the wildly unstable stock market. Our neighbor, Justin, of Stoneman Brewery is building a pop-up bar/sweet hangout spot down by the river, for when we can gather again. This is phase I. Phase II will be building the permanent brewery. By investing in Stoneman Brewery, you… [Read More]

Lily delivered 3 easter/passover goats

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Lily played easter bunny and made her delivery at the usual appointed 2am hour: 2 bucklings and 1 doeling. It was not the smoothest process so the people didn’t get to return to bed until 5:30am and are a little slow this Easter morning. But all seems well now. Esther and Moses are toffee colored,… [Read More]

Visiting neighbor

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Our neighbor Colby’s pig wanted to pay a visit. He has had it with being quarantined. He was probably looking for our pigs, who won’t be here for another month or so.

New chicks

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It’s been so comforting to hang with the baby chicks over the past two days. They have nothing to worry about except how to eat and drink. They are leghorns, which are the most productive of our layers.