Where to find peak-season veggie melts, hand-pulled biang biang noodles, Moroccan beef hash, Cap’n Crunch-battered chicken tenders, miso apple cake, and more by Nat Belkov Aug 8, 2023, 9:00am EDT EATER There’s an urban legend surrounding the Five College Consortium that each school — Amherst, Smith, Mount Holyoke, and Hampshire … Read more
Daily Hampshire Gazette By SCOTT MERZBACH Staff Writer Published: 8/6/2023 10:40:01 AM Modified: 8/6/2023 10:39:48 AM HADLEY — Each weighing just 35 pounds or less at birth, but getting bigger each day, Nichelino, Naples and Novara are among the newest heifer calves at Barstow’s Longview Farm. While numerous calves are … Read more
Here on Barstow’s Longview Farm, we raise about 600 animals for dairy. But we also raise ~20 steers each year for our Barstow’s Farm Raised Beef! The beef – ground, patties, steaks, and roasts, is exclusively sold at Barstow’s Dairy Store and Bakery and can be found in our freezer section. … Read more
HADLEY, Mass. (WBZNewsRadio) – It’s incredibly rare with roughly one out of every 105,000 pregnant cows giving birth to triplets, but those odds have arrived at Barstow’s Longview Farm in Hadley. The farm said they’ve only seen the incredibly rare triple-birth just once before and sadly not all the calves … Read more
Sunday is National Cheesecake Day! National Cheesecake Day offers a slice of one of America’s favorite desserts, according to the National Day Calendar. A form of the dessert comes up as a recipe served to athletes in ancient Greece. It has been found that the earliest mention of a cheesecake … Read more
Daily Hampshire Gazette By SCOTT MERZBACH Staff Writer Published: 7/18/2023 4:41:17 PM Modified: 7/18/2023 4:40:47 PM HADLEY — Cut on Saturday, hay in a field at Barstow’s Longview Farm remains on the ground, where if the weather stays dry for 48 hours, it will be picked up and put into … Read more
Thank you to our community for reaching out with well wishes and support in the wake of the recent flooding. We are so grateful that our family and staff, animals, equipment, and buildings are all safe and dry. Our hearts go out to those in our region, especially other farmers, … Read more
By JULIAN MENDOZA Staff Writer Published: 6/23/2023 1:37:00 PM Ravaged by supply chain issues, business monopoly and a volatile market, the dairy industry has seen countless farms sink over the past few years. In the case of some Pioneer Valley producers, though, the cream rises to the top. “Dairy is … Read more
Apologies to any readers trying to avoid sweets this week! June happens to be Dairy Month and strawberry and rhubarb season, so here’s a Strawberry Rhubarb Sundae at Barstow’s Dairy Store and Bakery. Congrats to photographer Denise, our first repeat winner.How to enter: Snap a pic of something delicious-looking and … Read more