sustainability
From Field to Food
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesJune is Dairy Month! Learn more about how dairy impacts our economy, our planet, our diet, our land use, and how dairy farming connects us with heritage in the Pioneer Valley. Join the conversation with experts across all fields of dairy (get it?!). The Dairy Month Lecture Series is hosted by Barstow's Longview Farm and ... Read more
Cow Power: From Waste to Watts
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesJune is Dairy Month! Learn more about how dairy impacts our economy, our planet, our diet, our land use, and how dairy farming connects us with heritage in the Pioneer Valley. Join the conversation with experts across all fields of dairy (get it?!). The Dairy Month Lecture Series is hosted by Barstow’s Longview Farm and Barstow’s Dairy ... Read more
Free Earth Day Farm Tour
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesAt Barstow's Longview Farm, every day is Earth Day! Tour our facility and experience how animal care, technology, and the engagement of the next farming generation play a role in farm sustainability. Learn how Barstow's Longview Farm turns food waste and cow manure into enough electricity for 1,600 homes with an anaerobic digester. The system ... Read more
Cow Power: from Waste to Watts
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesJune is Dairy Month! Learn more about how dairy impacts our economy, planet, diet, land use, and how dairy farming connects us with heritage in the Pioneer Valley. Join the conversation with experts across all fields of dairy (get it?!). The Dairy Month Lecture Series is hosted by Barstow’s Longview Farm and Barstow’s Dairy Store and Bakery. ... Read more
The Dirt on Composting Webinar by the Center for EcoTechology
Barstow's Dairy Store and Bakery 172 Hockanum Road, Hadley, MA, United StatesFood waste makes up over 20% of the Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) stream in the U.S. This waste can be managed by diverting it to feed people, feed animals, composting it, or using it for anaerobic digestion. Composting diverts food waste from the landfill, reducing methane emissions (a potent greenhouse gas), saving resources, and returning ... Read more
Hitchcock Harvest 2023
Hitchcock Center for the Enviornment 845 West Street, Amherst, MAThe Hitchcock Center has been sowing seeds of change and educating for a healthy planet in the Valley for more than 60 years. Come and help them celebrate the harvest with local friends and businesses and learn what they are brewing up next! Food, drink, community, garden and building tours, a short program, and lots ... 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!