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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

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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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  • February 11th – February 17th February 17, 2024
    Weather forecasters in our area were worked into a state of real excitement by the potential for a real old-timey Nor’Easter moving up the coast early Tuesday, and we had forecasts ranging from fifteen inches of snow to one inch of snow, and everything in between. All of that uncertainty made me doubt that we’d […]
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  • February 4th – 11th February 11, 2024
    This week brought our first stretch of dry sunny weather it what feels like months and months, and it was a real treat to sit out in front of the bunkhouse to soak up some of the sun’s warmth between projects. This was also our first full week of youth programming for the spring season, and […]
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