Stowe Farm Community

An Intentional Farm Community located in Colrain, Massachusetts

Support local economy and food you can trust

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Now is the perfect opportunity to support our local economy. We are fortunate to have so many awesome farmers and skilled crafts people in and around Colrain. Not only are you supporting them and our local economy, but the freshness, quality, flavors, and nutritional values are miles above factory farms. You’ll never go back. Here… [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!

Connections

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*from “The Amish use tech differently than you think. We should emulate them.” by By Jeff Smith, The Washington Post, Feb. 17, 2020 It can often feel as if modern life does little to encourage healthy connections between people.  The logistics of making a living and meeting core family needs combined with dispersion of extended families… [Read More]

“Where is the Lawnmower?!!” – Sharing Tools in Community

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We humans bring our backgrounds and baggage to whatever communities we find ourselves in – whether that’s a workplace, spiritual or activist, or even a book group. This is especially true in co-housing, as our very intention is to build community by interacting more closely with our neighbors than in a traditional neighborhood. We join… [Read More]

Four generations of amazing and beautiful women!

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Emma: Ten years ago my husband Ed and I moved into the intentional community we now call Stowe Farm Community. We retired early and wanted to share our gardening skills with others because our children were grown and we needed to downsize. My mother taught me to garden and “put by ” vegetables when I… [Read More]