June is Dairy Month! Local farmstands in Hadley, South Hadley, and Sunderland are celebrating with the Dairy Month Dairy Crawl! Visit the participating farmstands; Barstow’s Dairy Store and Bakery, McCray’s Country Creamery, Flayvors of Cook Farm, Maple Valley’s Hadley Scoop, North Hadley Sugar Shack and Market, and Smiarowski’s Farmstand and … Read more
Barstow’s Dairy Store and Bakery is partnering with The South Hadley Family Center to play a big game of Bingo! Join us at Barstow’s May Burger Night, Wednesday, May 23 to purchase a square and play Cow Plop “Bingo”! Squares, which are randomly assigned, are available by donation of 1 … Read more
Here at Barstow’s Longview Farm everybody has a personality so everybody has a name. Calves born around the same time have names that begin with the same letter. These calves were born in the last half of April. Congratulations to our Name the Calf Contest winners! Helga by Emilia Swiech … Read more
We want to wish the incredible Mom’s in our community a Happy Mother’s Day! Daily we host kiddos and their Mom’s at Barstow’s Dairy Store and Bakery. Kids plates, M&M cookies, BBQ chips, PB&Js, grilled ham and cheeses, and the occasional egg salad on an Asiago bagel, go over the … Read more
Sirloin, tenderloin, rib-eye, brisket, hamburger, meatloaf, meatballs – BEEF (it’s what’s for dinner!) May is Beef Month, so why not celebrate with local, sustainable, beef from Barstow’s Longview Farm!? Barstow’s Beef is raised on the Barstow family farm in Hadley, MA. Our meat does not contain antibiotics, steroids, or added … Read more
Here at Barstow’s Longview Farm everybody has a personality so everybody has a name. Calves born around the same time have names that begin with the same letter. These calves were born in the first half of April. Congratulations to our Name the Calf Contest winners! Glory by Janet Lipscomb … Read more
May 1, 2018 Juggling with Julia by Julia Robarts I had the chance to attend a dairy farm tour recently, at Barstow’s Longview Farm, a 7th generation family farm in Hadley, Massachusetts. If you’ve never done a farm tour before, I highly recommend it! Much like my recent tour of The Country Hen, … Read more
Barstow’s Longview Farm’s anaerobic digester receives more than 14,000 tons of food waste annually from food manufacturers, processors, and users such as Cabot Creamery, Geissler’s Supermarkets, HP Hood, Wind River, Cains, Garelick, Amenico, and McDonalds. Add in the 9,000 annual tons of cow manure from the farm and we’re in … Read more
A cow’s ideal temperature is between 40 and 65 degrees Fahrenheit. So while summer is a great time for ice cream, it can be stressful on dairy cows. That said, here at Barstow’s Longview Farm, and common practice among most dairy farms, is to keep our girls cool and comfortable. … Read more