Stowe Farm Community

An Intentional Farm Community located in Colrain, Massachusetts

Exploring South Asian cooking

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These days we are all doing different things to stay sane during COVID. Haynes is exploring new foods and cooking. His latest passion is Southeast Asian food which uniquely blends hot, sour, salty, and sweet and umami flavors. Yum! But the first challenge is acquiring a small pantry of hard-to-find ingredients. The obvious place to… [Read More]

PigTV/GoatTV (see video)

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The goats and pigs do entertain each other. We move the pigs often, but on Saturday we moved them and their house way on the other side of the field. It took awhile and the goats would have done it differently, but the pigs are so happy literally digging up their new digs!

Lucy learns to swim

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One last glimpse of summertime fun on vacation. With Emma and Laura’s help, Lucy learns to swim at the Cape! See video: LucySwims Beautiful windmills in the distance.

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]