Stowe Farm Community

An Intentional Farm Community located in Colrain, Massachusetts

Pigs arrived

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The Stowe Farm Pig Club is thrilled with this year’s pigs. They are spunky and so sweet. The watering system works well, especially using the spring that Katie discovered. They seem quite happy here now. Although the first night they got spooked and ran deep into the woods. It took a while to find them,… [Read More]

Oriole birds and bees

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Here are some birds and bees from Mason’s nature photography collection, Stormbringer Photography From his Facebook: Surprise! The Baltimore Orioles are back! I quickly realized it was stealing sap/insects attracted to sap from the Yellow-Bellied Sapsuckers! The sapsuckers repeatedly fly over to the oriole to try and shoo it away, though each time the oriole… [Read More]

Coltrane in Colrain

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How sweet it is to hear Ezra Rudel’s Coltrane in Colrain in the Cold Rain coming from the Stowe Farm greenhouse. What a gift! You can hear more on his Instagram site, ezrudelmusic.

Snowy day

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We’re ready for spring, but nature is really putting on a beautiful winter wonderland to keep us engaged with winter!

BFFs

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At first Kai was just being patient and putting up with this little new human. But now she is clearly in love with her boy, and the feeling is mutual.

Charles’ great adventure

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Charles is living the life that he’s been dreaming about since we, at Stowe Farm, have known him. He generously gave away most of his belongings, sold his house at Stowe Farm to Jonathan, Jenny, and Peter, and has been on his great adventure for 4 months. We miss Charles, but are so happy for… [Read More]

Saving the world, one scrubbie at a time!

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Jenny’s loofah experiment went a little wild in the greenhouse, but what great scrubbies we all now have! She dried and baked them and gave us all scrubbies and seeds to grow more. It’s a small step, but if each of us replace our synthetic scrubbies for loofahs, the world will be better for it!