Stowe Farm Community

An Intentional Farm Community located in Colrain, Massachusetts

Earthen Oven Workshops

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Katywil hosted 3 workshops to build an earthen oven, a century’s old technology still used today in small villages and communities around the world. These ovens are made from simple materials, clay, sand, straw and limestone. They hold heat beautifully, reaching 700-800 degrees, enough to cook a pizza in minutes. As they cool they can… [Read More]

Turkeys, and Chickens, and Quails, oh my!

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  Chicken and quail eggs Haynes’ turkey eggs have another 10 days in the incubator, but two days ago Andrew’s incubator with quail eggs started popping like pop corn! He opened it, they hatched and were hopping all over the place!  

Building the Earthen Oven!

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Big thanks to our fearless leaders, Ashley Schenk and Joshua Freund. We worked hard and steadily all day. What a great group and team effort. Sunday, June 5 we will have the Lime Plaster Workshop to seal it, and June 10-12 we will build a shelter for the oven at the Timber Frame Workshop.

Opening reception for Portrait Tales: The Art of Leaving

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Please come out to Greenfield to help our neighbor, Cynthia McLaughlin, celebrate the first installment of this new work.  As an extension of performance she, through collaboration with Chattman Photography and the amazing performers, Krista De Nio, Lani Nahele, Jennifer Polins, Saliq Frances Savage and Cassie Sioux Mills, have capturedthe developing characters through the photographic… [Read More]

Lime Plaster 101 Workshop

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fter the stone foundation is in and the earthen oven is built, it should have a sturdy coat of protection. Natural builder, Ryan Chivers will be teaching plaster courses at Yestermorrow. Before he heads back to Colorado, he has arranged to come to Katywil, and guide us through the process, using the natural technique of lime plastering.