Stowe Farm is pleased to provide our neighbor, Rich, at Shoestring Farm’s 2025 order list! Order Here for Roadside Pickup In Colrain, Massachusetts at 168 Ed Clark Road. Rich, at Shoestring Farm is Stowe Farm’s neighbor & friend. Below is info to order flower, veg, and herb plants from him: Working the land since 1972,… [Read More]
Checking out the new piglets!
Katie, Michael, and Haynes went to NH to check out the new piglets. We can’t wait until they’re ready to come to Stowe Farm!
Many hands work party!
We are growing, and what a difference more helping hands made last weekend. On a stunning November Sunday Stowe Farm Community members came together to plant over 120 new raspberry plants that needed thinning from a neighbor’s garden. With Jonathan leading the way with the rototiller, we planted them in a curve that follows the… [Read More]
Multi-year plan for Stowe Farm Community Solar Field
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]
Outsmarting a Pig!
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]
Three little pigs
Stowe Farm’s three little pigs are still settling in. We couldn’t get heritage pigs this year. These guys are very different.
All four goats are expecting, soon!
Judy and Karen washed all the mamas and cleaned their house, all ready for the kids! See Honey
Come to No Till Presentation on Sunday
Liz Joseph from Heifer Int coming to Katywil on Sunday at 2pm to speak on No Till Growing More info…
Hawlemont School farm program taking root
Katywil’s field trip (20 minutes away) to our neighboring town’s awesome public elementary farm school Read the article from the Greenfield Recorder by Diane Broncaccio…
NOFA Summer Conference this weekend
NOFA Summer Conference at UMass Amherst campus. Awesome workshops for adults & kids all day Saturday and Sunday. Visit us at our table.