Foxbard Farm is looking to hire a full-time assistant for our grass-fed beef, lumber, and cordwood operations.  Duties will include tractor and equipment operation, fence construction and repair, cattle handling, hay production, equipment maintenance, and firewood / lumber processing.  Farm equipment experience required, chainsaw experience preferred. Pay commensurate with experience. Position is year-round, with room [continue reading]

10 Charming River Towns In Massachusetts To Visit This Spring Shelburne Falls, Montague, and Deerfield make the list of Massachusetts towns to visit in the spring .
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/massachusetts/river-towns-ma/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=massachusetts&utm_campaign=newsletter [continue reading]

Growing Our Clothes: Local Lambs in Linen Hosted by Shelburne Historical Society Sunday, April 28, 1:00-4:00pm Shelburne Historical Society, 33 Severance St., Shelburne Falls, MA Facebook event details:  https://www.facebook.com/events/415298692552623/
“The Spring will kick off with our first in a series entitled “Growing Our (blank) in Shelburne”. This interactive program will [continue reading]

Mark your calendars for
the 39th Annual Bridge of Flowers 10K Classic & 3K Charity Race
Saturday, August 12, 2017
The course is located in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts.
Race day registration opens at 7 AM.
Start times:
8:15 AM Steve Lewis Subaru 3k Charity Run Walk
9:00 AM [continue reading]

The Shelburne Falls Farmers’ Market is hosting a special Autumn market event just in time for Thanksgiving!
The market will be held on Sunday, November 22nd
at the Buckland Shelburne Elementary School
from 11 a.m.-4p.m.!
You’ll be able to find local cheeses, meats, and veggies just in time [continue reading]

The Recorder, August 26th, 2015, by Tom Relihan.
In 1998, David Fisher came to Conway with the dream of establishing a farm that would embody his ecological ideals and reverence for all life — a farm powered entirely by horses, allowing it to operate independent of fossil fuels like gasoline and diesel [continue reading]

Daily Hampshire Gazette, April 14th 2014, Rebecca Everett
HADLEY — Most farmers will tell you that cooperation is crucial to keeping a farm running like a well-oiled threshing machine.
But at Stone Soup Farm Cooperative in Hadley, cooperation is everything.
Four young farmers formed the worker-owned farm collective last fall [continue reading]

Families Can Volunteer at the Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum Help to preserve local history and an important part of the evolution of transportation by volunteering at the Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum! The museum is home to trolleys, a pump car, and information and memorabilia related to local history and the history of train and trolley [continue reading]

Shelburne Falls is probably best known for the Bridge of Flowers. When the trolleys stopped running in town, the Shelburne Falls Women’s Club converted the unused bridge over the Deerfield River into a 400 foot long aerial garden, blooming from April thru October. The bridge is maintained by volunteers and donations, and this has turned [continue reading]