Barstow’s Longview Tour: Adapting a Dairy Farm to a Warmer Climate

This year, Barstow’s Longview Farm will be offering a free walking farm tour with a focus toward climate. We will visit our anaerobic digester, that converts food waste and cow manure into green energy and stand in a bunk silo and consider how dairy farms keep land open in our community. Then we will check out the dairy barn and learn how our farm is doing more with less while adapting to hotter summers. We will finish up in the calf barn before returning back to Barstow’s as a group.

The tour begins promptly at the top of the stairs at Barstow’s Dairy Store and Bakery. Please park in the bakery’s parking lot or along Barstow Lane. Please note we will not accommodate late arrivals and wear shoes that can get muddy and clothes that can smell like a cow. The walking tour is about 1/4 mile, takes around 1 hour, and involves hills, uneven terrain, weather, and is mostly outdoors. This event is rain or shine, no rain date.