farming - Stowe Farm Community https://stowefarm.org An Intentional Farm Community located in Colrain, Massachusetts Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:22:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://stowefarm.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-site-icon.png farming - Stowe Farm Community https://stowefarm.org 32 32 2026 SHOESTRING FARM Plant Order List! https://stowefarm.org/shoestring-farm-2025/ Sat, 06 Dec 2025 14:44:13 +0000 https://stowefarm.org/?p=5922 Stowe Farm is pleased to provide our neighbor, Rich, at Shoestring Farm’s 2026 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]

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]]> Checking out the new piglets! https://stowefarm.org/checking-out-the-new-piglets/ Thu, 10 Mar 2022 23:04:53 +0000 https://stowefarm.org/?p=6958 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!

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]]> Many hands work party! https://stowefarm.org/wp/ Sat, 06 Nov 2021 17:41:07 +0000 https://stowefarm.org/?p=6813 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]

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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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]]> Outsmarting a Pig! https://stowefarm.org/outsmarting-a-pig/ Mon, 03 Aug 2020 16:11:06 +0000 https://stowefarm.org/?p=6311 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]

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]]> Three little pigs https://stowefarm.org/three-little-pigs/ Mon, 01 Jun 2020 14:54:04 +0000 https://stowefarm.org/?p=6049 Stowe Farm’s three little pigs are still settling in. We couldn’t get heritage pigs this year. These guys are very different.

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]]> All four goats are expecting, soon! https://stowefarm.org/all-four-goats-are-expecting-soon/ Fri, 01 May 2015 20:57:43 +0000 http://katywil.com/?p=4195 Judy and Karen washed all the mamas and cleaned their house, all ready for the kids! See Honey How many kids are in there?!

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]]> Come to No Till Presentation on Sunday https://stowefarm.org/no-till-presentation-on-sunday-march-29/ Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:47:26 +0000 http://katywil.com/?p=3853 Liz Joseph from Heifer Int coming to Katywil on Sunday at 2pm to speak on No Till Growing More info… Katywil Farm Community will be hosting an exciting, fun and educational presentation on the benefits of no-till growing with permanent raised bed weed prevention through mulches and cover crops and breaking ground for new garden... [Read More]

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]]> Hawlemont School farm program taking root https://stowefarm.org/hawlemont-school-farm-program-taking-root/ Tue, 09 Sep 2014 15:14:57 +0000 http://katywil.com/?p=3468 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… By DIANE BRONCACCIORecorder StaffFriday, August 8, 2014 (Published in print: Saturday, August 9, 2014) CHARLEMONT — When they go back to school on Aug. 27, Hawlemont’s pupils will see a new landscape:... [Read More]

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]]> NOFA Summer Conference this weekend https://stowefarm.org/nofa-summer-conference-this-weekend/ Fri, 08 Aug 2014 15:47:06 +0000 http://katywil.com/?p=3408 NOFA Summer Conference at UMass Amherst campus. Awesome workshops for adults & kids all day Saturday and Sunday. Visit us at our table.

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