Pasture Day 2020 Facebook LIVE Event
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesToday is Pasture Day! And like the spring this year, it's coming a little late. Pasture Day, an annual community event typically the first Saturday in May, has been rescheduled and reworked to meet best practices for safe social distancing in the time of COVID19. Barstow’s Longview Farm will release several cows onto pasture in ... Read more
Dairy Month Dairy Crawl
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesJune is Dairy Month! A time to celebrate local dairy: milk, cheese, ice cream and more! ‘Celebrating’, however, looks a bit different in the age of COVID-19. With incredibly low milk prices, lost markets with the closure of restaurants, schools, and institutions, and the added stress of social distancing, new farm training protocols, and so.much.sanitizing, ... Read more
Eat the Season: Strawberry Shortcake
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesThere are many good reasons to eat local, in season food: Local food is fresh and nutritious! It connects us with nature's cycles and with the place we call home. Local food travels fewer miles from the fields to your kitchen table which means lower emissions, energy, and fuel usage. The purchase of local food ... Read more
Eat the Season: Blueberry Bread Pudding
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesThere are many good reasons to eat local, in season food: Local food is fresh and nutritious! It connects us with nature’s cycles and with the place we call home. Local food travels fewer miles from the fields to your kitchen table which means lower emissions, energy, and fuel usage. The purchase of local food ... Read more
National Ice Cream Sandwich Day
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesNational Ice Cream Month (July) may be over – but August 2nd celebrate a not-forgotten favorite: an Ice Cream Sandwich! National Ice Cream Sandwich Day is celebrated on August 2! And while you can get an ice cream sandwich any day at Barstow’s Dairy Store and Bakery – why not indulge in one today!? Pick ... Read more
National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesAt Barstow's, every day is Chocolate Chip Cookie Day! We celebrate year round.... But National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day is celebrated on August 4! Shannon, head baker and seventh generation Barstow, prepares chocolate chip cookies at Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery, daily, using Grandma Barstow's recipe. Shannon spent hours in the kitchen with Grandma while ... Read more
Eat the Season: Peach Shortcake
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesThere are many good reasons to eat local, in season food: Local food is fresh and nutritious! It connects us with nature’s cycles and with the place we call home. Local food travels fewer miles from the fields to your kitchen table which means lower emissions, energy, and fuel usage. The purchase of local food ... Read more
National Chocolate Milkshake Day
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesNational Chocolate Milkshake is celebrated on September 12. And here at Barstow’s, we celebrate milkshakes of all flavors nearly every day of the year. But in honor of this day, it’s time to enjoy a cold, thick, CHOCOLATE milkshake at your neighborhood dairy farm! Made with super premium chocolate Maple Valley Creamery ice cream and McCray’s ... Read more
National Homemade Cookies Day
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesWe celebrate homemade cookies daily at here Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery, but National Homemade Cookies Day is officially on October 1. In honor of this delightful day, we invite you to pre-order or drop by for a dozen (or more!) cookies from your neighborhood dairy farm. You can always pre-order or pick up cookies ... Read more
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
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!