Farm Tour
Live Virtual Farm Tour at Barstow’s Longview Farm
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesLength: 30 minutes (10-10:30 a.m. Eastern) Recommended Audience: Grades 3-5 Using video chat technology, students will get a behind the scenes look into life on a New England dairy farm. Students will join dairy farmer Denise Barstow for a tour of her family’s farm and learn how dairy farmers take care of their cows from ... Read more
Cows & Conservation: An Innovative Farm Tour
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesIn 2014, the Barstow family worked with Kestrel and the Commonwealth to place an Agricultural Preservation Restriction (APR) on 123 acres of their farmland, preserving it forever. The Barstows reinvested the funds from the sale of the APR back into their 215 year-old dairy farm to secure its future. They purchased robotic milkers, a tool that improves milk production, ... Read more
National Ag Day
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesMarch 22 is National Agriculture Day. Here at Barstow’s Longview Farm, every day is Ag Day. Agriculture isn’t only our livelihood, it is a way of life. Today we invite you to consider how agriculture impacts your life. Farmers raise fruits, veggies, livestock, trees, and seafood. In honor of Ag Day, join us for a ... Read more
Pasture Day 2022
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesPasture Day is a farm favorite! And for the first time since 2019, it will be back as we love it most: in person, with our community, together again on the farmstand lawn. After inspecting and repairing fence, the farmers are ready to let the girls out of the barn and into the field. Spring ... Read more
Hockanum Day 2022
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesThe Hockanum Rural Historic District, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993, is a rural community encompassing a classically famous landscape along the Connecticut River in Hadley, Massachusetts. The fertile farmland and quiet village is home to families that have been here for generations. On Hockanum Day, meet, discuss, and learn about ... Read more
Pasture Day 2023
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesPasture Day is a farm favorite! After inspecting and repairing fence, the farmers are ready to let the girls out of the barn and into the field. Spring is here! And with winter months in the barn behind them, the cows will be prancing their way into the green green grass! This event is not ... Read more
Open Farm Saturday 2023
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesJoin us at Barstow's Longview Farm for Open Farm Saturday! We will be offering free farm tours at: 10am - walking tour 11am - walking tour noon-2pm - as many wagon tours as we can get through! wagon seats ~20 adults. *please note that you must be with a guide to tour our farm for ... Read more
Free Walking Farm Tour: Nov 10, 10am
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesPlease join us for a tour of Barstow's Longview Farm on Friday, November 10 at 10am. This tour will visit our anaerobic digester, silo storage, milking barn, robotic milker, and calf barn. Farm tour begins and ends at Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery. We cannot accomodate late arrivals, you must be with a guide to ... Read more
Vector Automatic Feeder Tour – April 27
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesPlease join us for a walking tour of our new Lely Vector automatic feeding system on Saturday, April 27 at 10am. We will visit the dairy barn to see the Vector. Please note that this is not a full-farm tour, it is just of our new, very cool system. This tour will take ~30 minutes. ... Read more
Vector Automatic Feeder Tour – April 28
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesPlease join us for a walking tour of our new Lely Vector automatic feeding system on Sunday, April 28 at 10am. We will visit the dairy barn to see the Vector. Please note that this is not a full-farm tour, it is just of our new, very cool system. This tour will take ~30 minutes. ... Read more
Barstow’s Dairy Store and Bakery and Barstow’s Longview Farm is owned and operated by sixth and seventh generation Barstow’s. Nestled at the base of Skinner State Park and right alongside the Connecticut River, the dairy farm has been a part of the landscape since 1806.
Barstow’s Dairy Store and Bakery offers homemade baked goods and pies, lunch from local ingredients, farm fresh produce, farm raised beef, ice cream, and scenic views of protected farmland from the porch and dining room. This family friendly store is open daily year round. Come meet your neighborhood dairy farmer!