cooperative ownership - Stowe Farm Community https://stowefarm.org An Intentional Farm Community located in Colrain, Massachusetts Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:12:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://stowefarm.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-site-icon.png cooperative ownership - Stowe Farm Community https://stowefarm.org 32 32 A Beautiful Working Truck for Stowe Farm Community! https://stowefarm.org/stowe-farm-got-a-new-truck/ Thu, 20 Mar 2025 18:54:53 +0000 https://stowefarm.org/?p=7589 After many years of service, it was time to retire our 1996 Dodge Ram – held lovingly together well past its normal life with lots of duct tape, love and bondo by Peter, our stalwart truck point person. Thanks to Peter and Haynes for all of the searching, calling, visiting, and test driving, we now... [Read More]

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]]> What a difference 24 hrs can make! https://stowefarm.org/what-a-difference-24-hrs-can-make/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 16:31:02 +0000 https://stowefarm.org/?p=7150 Here is Tes and Sarah’s house in November at 8am, and by 5pm all four walls were up. Nov, 8 am Nov, 2 pm Nov, 8 pm Here it is today with the windows in and roof on. Dec, 11 am Jan, 4 pm Thanks to everyone who cleared the snow for Doug and the... [Read More]

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]]> The Serviceberry, wha beautiful inspiration https://stowefarm.org/the-serviceberry-wha-beautiful-inspiration/ Sun, 31 Dec 2023 14:39:54 +0000 https://stowefarm.org/?p=7487 The Serviceberry, by Robin Wall Kimmerer is a short read, only about 100 pages, but what a beautiful read for the start of a new year. Find a quiet spot and a hot cup of tea to read this beautiful vision of a way we could live. Reading Robin Wall Kimmerer’s , The Serviceberry is... [Read More]

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]]> Multi-year plan for Stowe Farm Community Solar Field https://stowefarm.org/mowing/ Mon, 06 Sep 2021 14:10:55 +0000 https://stowefarm.org/?p=6778 This summer we started developing a multi-year land management plan for our solar field on the North side of Adamsville Rd.  The plan is inspired in part by: recommendations in Mass Audubon Society’s Best Management Practices for Nesting Grassland Birds; by the ecological vision and theory for temperate climate permaculture set out by Jacke and... [Read More]

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]]> BCS refresher https://stowefarm.org/bcs-refresher/ Thu, 15 Jul 2021 16:50:53 +0000 https://stowefarm.org/?p=6755 Quick intro/refresher about how to operate our walk-behind BCS tractor, a powerful machine that can operate many different attachments. Filling our BCS flail brush mower with gas ready for mowing pathways in one of our fields

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]]> New greenhouse fan https://stowefarm.org/new-greenhouse-fan/ Mon, 03 Aug 2020 20:52:21 +0000 https://stowefarm.org/?p=6375   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]

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]]> “Where is the Lawnmower?!!” – Sharing Tools in Community https://stowefarm.org/where-is-the-lawnmower/ Wed, 01 Jan 2020 17:52:49 +0000 https://stowefarm.org/?p=5514 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]

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]]> Cohousing, What’s it like? https://stowefarm.org/great-description-of-cohousing/ Sat, 16 Mar 2019 16:47:46 +0000 https://stowefarm.org/?p=5464 Ben Brock Johnson's NPR article about cohousing

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]]> Updating Master Plan https://stowefarm.org/updating-master-plan/ Fri, 10 Jul 2015 12:09:18 +0000 http://katywil.com/?p=1789 This was first published in January 2013. We’ve doubled in size since our first master plan charrette, now it’s time to revisit again in 2016. Andrew Rebelo (far left) led the continued discussion. Renewing the Vision RENEWING THE VISION The original Katywil master plan was developed in 2011 with the help of architects and a permaculture... [Read More]

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]]> Katywil Common House Visioning Sunday May 4 https://stowefarm.org/katywil-visioning/ Wed, 09 Apr 2014 20:54:46 +0000 http://katywil.com/?p=1090 Liam will be back on May 4 to continue our conversation about community spaces, focusing on ideas for our Common House. If you are considering living at Katywil, and want to be part of this process, contact nancy@katywil.com. Here is Liam and Cassidy’s presentation at Katywil on March 17, 2012. We asked them to help... [Read More]

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