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VIRTUAL Pasture Day 2020 (Date TBD)
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesDue to the ongoing health emergency, the Barstow family has decided to postpone Pasture Day and make it a virtual event. Pasture Day is one of our most popular events, and we suspect that even with social distancing guidelines in play, the advanced announcement of a rescheduled event will inevitably contribute to gathering. In an ... Read more
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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
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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
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National Agriculture Day
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesMarch 23 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.
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Pasture Day 2021
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesToday is Pasture Day! Surprise! This fairly last minute decision is consciously made to limit gathering and sustain our commitment to our community's health and safety. In 2019, our Pasture Day event gathered well over 250 people. And while relaxed restrictions are here or on the horizon, we are not yet ready for this to ... Read more
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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!