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Old County Road Concert
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesOld Country Road brings together five musicians who grew-up with traditional or vintage country music as a part of their lives. You may have caught them at one of Barstow’s Burger Nights or other summer events. But we can’t wait for summer, we miss our bluegrass friends! This event is free and open to the public! Join ... Read more
Live Music by Jeremy Swartz
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesEnjoy live music by Jeremy Swartz of Berkshire Hills Music Academy at Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery! Jeremy Swartz is a musician and student at Berkshire Hills Music Academy. He loves to sing, dance, and play guitar. Jeremy performs regularly with the BHMA performance Troupe and has also sung the National Anthem for the Boston ... Read more
Representative Dan Carey Office Hours
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesMeet with your Massachusetts State Representative, Dan Carey, on Saturday, March 7, 9am-10am at Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery. Community Office Hours are held every month in each of the four communities in the 2nd Hampshire District. Office hours are intended to create opportunities for constituents to have open conversations with State Representative Dan Carey, ... Read more
Live Music by Jeremy Swartz
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesEnjoy live music by Jeremy Swartz of Berkshire Hills Music Academy at Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery! Jeremy Swartz is a musician and student at Berkshire Hills Music Academy. He loves to sing, dance, and play guitar. Jeremy performs regularly with the BHMA performance Troupe and has also sung the National Anthem for the Boston ... Read more
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
Mother’s Day 2020
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesHappy Mother’s Day! We’ve made a list of 6 great gifts for Mom: A Mother’s Day Cake Local Honey, Coffee, or Maple Syrup A hanging local flower basket from the porch A delicious meal with her family – click here to view our prepared foods ready to serve for any occasion! A beautiful card from a ... Read more
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
Small Business Saturday
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesSmall Business Saturday celebrates small, local businesses and encourages consumers to shop locally at the start of the holiday shopping season. Small businesses like Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery and Barstow's Longview Farm (and so many other businesses close to home) are essential to the unique fabric of our community, our rural economy, and food ... 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!