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About Us

The Farm School is located in rural, north-central Massachusetts

straddling the towns of Orange and Athol, MA.

Diversity and Inclusion Statement unanimously adopted by The Farm School Board Of Directors Dec. 2, 2017:

“A natural outgrowth of the Farm School’s core value of kindness is our commitment to making diversity and active inclusion part of our community and organizational culture. We define active inclusion as conscious and substantial efforts by The Farm School administration to value, welcome, recruit, serve and empower people of all races and ethnic backgrounds, gender identities, sexual orientations, religions, and ages, within our organization, programs and support community.”

free roaming hens
organic crops
grass fed beef
double rainbow over chicken coop
chickens leaving the coop
reconnecting with yourself and nature
opening circle

Voices From The Farm

RSS The Farm School Manual

  • April 28th – May 5th May 5, 2024
    Our four winter pigs were loaded out of their yard and into the trailer Wednesday morning for the trip up to the slaughterhouse. These were another round of great pigs who thrived on the farm for the winter and who put to good use the extra milk and weeds and harvest waste from the hoop-houses, […]
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  • April 14th – April 28th April 28, 2024
    I missed last week’s updates because I took the week off, but a lot of projects were completed as we move quickly from the muddy mess of an early New England spring into the start of the growing season. Our hay supplies are reaching their end, and we actually bought in six more round bales to keep […]
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  • April 7th – April 14th April 14, 2024
    We loaded up the laying hens Monday night and moved them into their summer egg-mobile. After setting up a poultry netting fence as well as we could in the compost yard behind the dairy barn, we pulled the egg-mobile over to the only flat spot in that yard and released the chickens. They have been […]
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  • April 1st – April 7th April 7, 2024
    Looking back over the past few weeks, I notice a pattern in the weather that has continued this week as well. Again, we had a few nice days to start the week, but on Wednesday a big mixed up winter storm drifted over the farm and scrambled everything up. Strong winds whipped the treetops, every […]
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  • March 24th – March 31st March 31, 2024
    This week started out pretty warm and sunny, but another nasty mixed up storm moved over the farm through the middle of the week, and the landscape has continued wet, muddy and pretty gross. I tried to do some work in the dairy herd’s winter yard out behind the barn, and while I was able to remove […]
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  • March 17th – March 24th March 24, 2024
    Our first-calf-heifer Phlox, daughter of the wonderful Phoenix, delivered a bull-calf on Wednesday afternoon, and both Phlox and her boy Pharaoh are doing great. Pharaoh did a bit of the classic Jersey bull-calf ‘I’m not sure I want to live‘ thing, but with a bit of coaching and support, we’ve got him nursing on his […]
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  • March 10th – March 17th March 17, 2024
    Dr. Locitzer came out to the farm on Friday to take a look at our goat who is suffering with damaged skin on her ankles, and it sounds like we’ll be following the usual treatment course for this ailment. We seem to face this challenge in our goat herd over the winter every year, and […]
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  • March 3rd – March 10th March 10, 2024
    There are a few half-gallon jars of syrup on the shelf in the sugar-shack, so despite the tough sugaring weather, we have been able to make some finished product. The ten-day forecast has some hopeful moments with cold nights and warm days, but also plenty of weather that looks too warm, so I’m not sure how […]
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  • February 25th – March 3rd March 3, 2024
    The heat was turned on in the greenhouse this week, and the tables in there are starting to gradually fill up with the first real seed starts of the season. We did a little watering and seedling care refresher with the PVS staff in that space on Friday afternoon, so it seems like the seeding […]
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  • February 17th – February 25th February 25, 2024
    This has been a school vacation week here in Massachusetts, so we did not host any visiting school groups on the farm this week. Many farmers took the week as vacation as well, so the farm was pretty quiet. This is just about the last chance to take some time off before the wild dash of […]
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