Events

Wagon tour. Food safety is the same thing you implement in your own kitchen, just on another scale. Dairy farms use the same principles! Full details.

This free walking farm tour will be led by seventh generation farmer Denise Barstow and her guest, Massachusetts State Senator, Jo Comerford. Full details.

The event is free, but please register here by June 21. Contact at (413) 577-3976 to register by phone.

Learn how to design unique garden spaces that strengthen your connection to our wonderfully varied New England landscape. Discover important functional and aesthetic qualities of native plants that can provide the building blocks for creating easy-to-care-for, sustainable gardens. Using strategies based on the observation and emulation of naturally existing plant communities, landscape designer Owen Wormser […]

Celebrate Hadley’s rich agricultural traditions! Gather on the historic West Street Common with family and friends for a sweet summertime evening with local food, drinks, music and games. The night will include: Local beers, ciders, and shrubs. Food from MiTierra and Esselon. Live music and games. Snow cones and much more!

Raising and hand milking multi-purpose dairy goats for 20+ years at LDF has been a grand adventure! They learned a lot and grown an abiding respect for the intelligence, whimsy, hardiness, and GENTLENESS... of our caprine cousins. Tending goats on a small scale is surely a labor of love, the ultimate rewards of which cannot […]

The Easthampton farmers & makers market will he hosting a farm animal and dairy day. Welcome for all to come learn about farm animals and all things related to dairy! There will be cheese, ice cream, milk and more.

Join Barstows for live music by Old County Road, free anniversary cake (while supplies last!), and a walking farm tour at 1pm to cap off Barstow’s 2019 Dairy Month Lecture Series. Full details.