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Winter dip at Stowe Farm

February 24, 2020 by Stowe Farm

It was a March 25 snowfall, but the resourceful ducks found a swimming hole.

Our Wellsummer chicken is laying beautiful deep brown speckled eggs

February 11, 2020 by Stowe Farm

She took her sweet time (and she is sweet), but our Wellsummer is now laying beautiful eggs. The speckles come off if you wash them, same with the blue eggs. Curious!

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

January 1, 2020 by Stowe Farm

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]

Repairing turkey tractor roof

April 8, 2019 by Stowe Farm

Luckily we didn’t have any turkeys or chickens this winter, so nobody was hurt when the powerful winds tore the roof off of our winter home for turkeys and/or chickens. Our new flock of chickens are due any day now. When they’re big enough, they will live in a more portable chicken tractor for the… [Read More]

Cohousing, What’s it like?

March 16, 2019 by Stowe Farm

Ben Brock Johnson’s NPR article about cohousing

Making dog food with a willing customer at the door

February 13, 2019 by Stowe Farm

Kai really wanted to help make dog food. Evidently nobody heard her at the door.

Winter-Goat-Houses Party

October 14, 2018 by Stowe Farm

October here in Western Mass is when the temperatures drop and the air is crisp suggesting the possibility of snow, unpredictable when it will strike like the whims of a precocious toddler. All of a sudden we feel an urgency to get the winter tents that provide sheltered exercise space for our goats up. We… [Read More]