Massachusetts Raw Milk
Dairy Days
September 11-12
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Ten Massachusetts dairies that sell raw milk will open up their farms for tours and other activities on Saturday, September 11 and Sunday, September 12. Visit your local dairy and learn why raw milk tastes so good and why it’s so good for you! Meet your farmers and their cows and get to know where your food comes from.

Participating Farms
Chase Hill Farm, Warwick
Cricket Creek Farm, Williamstown
Eastleigh Farm, Framingham
Farmstead at Mine Brook, Charlemont
The Herb Hill Micro-Dairy, Andover
Northfield Mount Hermon School Farm, Mt. Hermon
Oake Knoll Ayrshires, Foxboro
Robinson Farm, Hardwick
Sidehill Farm, Ashfield
Upinngil Farm, Gill

Chase Hill Farm, Warwick
Saturday, 9/11
Open 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Mark and Jeanette Fellowes
74 Chase Hill Rd
Warwick, MA
978-544-6327
chasehillfarm@yahoo.com
www.chasehillfarm.com

Chase Hill Farm produces organic raw milk, farmstead cheeses, pasture-raised veal and beef from grassfed cows, eggs from pastured poultry and whey-fed pork. The farm practices sustainable farming methods, including rotational grazing, seasonal calving, and the use of draft horses. The farmers will offer grazing tours of their farm and cheese making facilities. Visitors are welcome to bring a picnic lunch.

Directions to Chase Hill Farm
From East: take RT 2 to exit 18. Take RT 32 north for about 5 miles. When you see a large green sign for Mt. Tully Kennel turn left onto Logan Rd. Go .3 of a mile turn left onto Fryeville Rd. Turn right at stop sign onto Tully Rd. Go just under 5 miles turn right onto Chase Hill Rd. Farm is .3 miles on left
From West: take RT 2 to Erving. Take RT 2A to RT 78. Take RT 78 North about 7-8 miles to center of Warwick. Turn right at town common onto Athol Rd. Take Athol Rd. 2.4 miles turn left onto Chase Hill Rd. See above.
From North: pick up RT 78 in Winchester NH. Take RT 78 about 7-10 miles to Warwick town Common. Turn left onto Athol Rd. See above.

Cricket Creek Farm, Williamstown
Saturday, 9/11
Open 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Tours at 12:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
Milking at 5:00 p.m.

Jude Sabot
1255 Oblong Road
Williamstown, MA
413-458-5888
info@cricketcreekfarm.com
www.cricketcreekfarm.com

Cricket Creek Farm consists of over 500 acres of rolling fields and woodlots, old apple orchards and sugarbush. Our herd of 90 cows is made up of registered Brown Swiss and Jerseys. Property tours will be at 12:30 and 3:30 and you're welcome to watch milking in our swing-barn at 5:00.

Visit our farm store for local products such as syrup, honey, Cricket Creek Farm pasture raised, grass-fed beef and pork, farmstead cheeses made on the farm. Also, baked goods are made fresh daily.

Directions to Cricket Creek Farm
From the intersection of RT 7 and 43 in South Williamstown (flashing light) turn onto RT 43 heading toward Hancock. Go approximately 100 feet and make a quick right onto Sloan Rd. Follow Sloan to the top of the hill where it T’s into Oblong. The farm is right there: 1255 Oblong Rd. Yellow farm house out front and barns in the back.

Eastleigh Farm, Framingham
Saturday, 9/11 and Sunday, 9/12
Open 1 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Milking at 6 p.m.

Doug Stephan
1062 Edmands Road
Framingham, MA
508-877-1753
EastleighFarm@Verizon.net www.eastleighfarm.com

Eastleigh is a rare find set in the rural area that is unique to the Framingham, Sudbury, Southboro, Marlboro area. We are milking about 65 cows, mostly jerseys, with a few Brown Swiss and Guernseys as well – the type of A-2 cow that produces the healthiest and tastiest milk available. People will be able to see where the cattle graze as they walk around the farm buildings of this very historic farm, and how we feed them in a rotational grazing system. We have the ingredients in the milk, plus the results of all our professional milk testing available for inspection right in the store.

We offer other dairy products and eggs from an organic producer. trying to show how the cost of providing this quality makes this a more expensive, but much more "liveable" source of great nutrition. We are beginning to add other locally grown items, like honey. We are in the process of building the cheese room, so people can see the construction and hear and explanation of how it all will work. Come visit and tell us what you like. We'll give away a free quart of ice cream once an hour to a random customer.

Directions to Eastleigh Farm can be found on our website, at www.eastleighfarm.com.

The Farmstead at Mine Brook, Charlemont
Saturday, 9/11 and Sunday, 9/12
Open 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.

John Miller
8 (Harris) Mountain Road
Charlemont, MA
413-339-8500
www.goatrising.com

Our mountainside family farm features pastures of native grasses , clover and wildflowers. Pure cool mountain spring water, native grass and alfalfa hay compliment a special whole grain mix that keeps our animals healthy and productive. We feed our animals a balanced diet. All of our pastures and feeds are all natural without use of hormones or additives. Our animals are handled with love and respect and are clean and healthy. The milk from our champion Jersey Cows has the highest natural content of protein and milk solids of any of the popular breeds of cows, making it more delicious, nutritious and digestible. Our raw milk is the key ingredient to our world gold medal winning farmstead cheese. We invite you to our farm. The farmstore is open 8 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Directions to The Farmstead at Mine Brook
Take Route 2 to Route 8 in Charlemont and go north 1 mile. Turn right onto Mountain Road and immediately right into the driveway.

The Herb Hill Micro-Dairy, Andover
Saturday, 9/11
Tours at 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.

Lucy and Joe McKain
320 High Plain Road
Andover, MA 01810
978 475-7931
lucymckain@verizon.net
http://theherbhillmicrodairy.mckain.me

The Herb Hill Micro-Dairy is a small goat milk dairy just 30 miles north of Boston. It specializes in fresh, chilled raw goat’s milk, organic herbs, an organic meat chicken CSA, and organic egg laying chickens. The goats are shown at many New England fairs including the Big E.

Come and enjoy a walking tour at 10:30am or at 12:30pm. Milkers are Joe (a senior in the Massachusetts 4-H program) and Lucy McKain, Middlesex County 4-H Dairy Goat Club leader. Try your hand at milking a goat after the demonstration. Watch the chicks, ducks and goat kids at play. Taste some goat milk fudge and chevre. Try a bar of moisturizing goat’s milk soap. Bring home some goat/poultry compost to add organic matter to your gardens this fall. Items are available for purchase.

Directions to The Herb Hill Micro-Dairy

• Take Rt. 93 to Exit 133 to Andover.
• Take a right onto Route 133 towards Andover.
• Take the first left onto Greenwood Road. The Internal revenue Service is on your right.
• Follow Greenwood about 1.5 miles, then take a left onto High Plain Road.
• Follow High Plain about 1.5 miles and take a left into the driveway with the stone mailbox post and black/vine-covered mailbox. Number 320 is over the house front door. When you turn into the driveway you will see the barn in front of you.

Northfield Mount Hermon School Farm, Mt. Hermon
Sunday, 9/12
Open 9 a.m. to noon

Richard Odman and Rachel Onuf
1 Lamplighter Way
Mount Hermon, MA, 01354
413-498-3467
www.nmhschool.org/about-nmh-farm-program
rodman@nmhschool.org

The NMH farm is a small, diversified New England farm. We have a small herd of Jersey cows. In addition to selling raw milk, we make cheese and ice cream and pasteurize milk for the school. We also work with students to make maple syrup and grow raspberries, vegetables, lavender, rosemary, and flowers. We distill lavender and rosemary and produce cider syrup and cider jelly. Although we will not be milking in September, we will have Monterey Jack and Cheddar available for sampling and for sale, and our cows would loved to get scratched under the chin.

Directions to the NMH Farm
From 91 and points West: Take exit 28A, Rt 10 toward Northfield. On Rt. 10, go past the main entrance to the school and take your next right, onto Main Rd. Gill. Bear to the right onto Mt. Hermon Rd. and look for the sign for the farm on the left, about a half mile down the road. Proceed to the lower red barn. From the East: Take Rt 10 South across the Connecticut River and turn left onto Main Rd. Gill. Bear to the right onto Mt. Hermon Rd. and look for the sign for the farm on the left, about a half mile down the road. Proceed to the lower red barn.

Oake Knoll Ayrshires, Foxboro
Saturday, 9/11
Open noon – 4 p.m.

Terri Lawton
70 North St.
Foxboro, MA
774-219-6257
oake_knoll_ayrshires@lawtonsfamilyfarm.com
www.lawtonsfamilyfarm.com

Oake Knoll, a working dairy farm, is located on a 275 year old family farm. We sell raw milk and harvest and sell vegetables in season. Our strength is milk quality, and customer input is very important in our management process. We will have milking demonstrations, calves to pet and cheese and raw milk sampling.

Directions to Oake Knoll Ayrshires at Lawton’s Family Farm
From RT 95, take exit 7B, 140 North. Follow this through the rotary and take a right onto North St, about 1 mile after the rotary. The farm is about a half mile down the road on the right, there is a small white sign in front that says "Lawtons Family Farm."

Robinson Farm, Hardwick
Saturday, 9/11
Open 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Hayride at 3 p.m.
Milking at 4 p.m.

Ray and Pamela Robinson
42 Jackson Road
Hardwick, MA
413-477-6988
info@robinsonfarm.org
www.robinsonfarm.org

Come help us celebrate our New Cheese Facility and Raw Milk Dairy Day! We will offer tours of the calves, chickens and cows, a hayride at 3:00 pm, our farmstand store will be open, and at 4:00 pm we will fetch the cows for milking, have a milking demonstration and tour the cheese facility.

Directions to Robinson Farm
From Hardwick Center traveling North on route 32A: Pass Butler’s Gas on the left, take the next Right, by the cemetary, onto North Rd. Go one mile and turn Left onto Jackson Rd. We are on the corner.

Sidehill Farm, Ashfield
Saturday, 9/11
2:30 p.m. tour

Amy Klippenstein and Paul Lacinski
137 Beldingville Rd
Ashfield, MA
413-625-0011
amy@sidehillfarm.net
www.sidehillfarm.net

Sidehill Farm will offer a guided tour beginning at 2:30 pm, including visits to pastures, the town’s oldest milking parlor, and their unusual facilities – a milk room built into a step van and a yogurt plant in a semi trailer. Stay after the tour for samples of raw milk and yogurt.

Directions to Sidehill Farm
From Route 116 in Ashfield Center, turn north on Baptist Corner Rd, which is across Main St. from St. John’s Church, at the east end of the town common. Follow Baptist Corner Rd for 1.75 miles. Turn right on Beldingville Rd, at the raw milk sign. Continue .25 mile downhill. The driveway is at the bottom of the hill under the power lines, #137, a left.

Upinngil Farm, Gill
Saturday, 9/11
Open 10 a.m – 5 p.m.
Tours at 2 and 4
Butter making demo at noon

Clifford and Sorrel Hatch
411 Main Road
Gill, MA
413-863-2297
pickens@crocker.com
www.upinngil.com

Upinngil is a diverse farming operation. The principal enterprises are: small fruits (strawberries, raspberries and grapes); dairy (Registered Ayrshire Cattle); field crops (potatoes, wheat, spelt, beans, pumpkins, corn); forage crops; and market garden crops. Most of the farm’s production is sold at the farm through a year round farm store, seasonal farm stand and u-pick. The farm’s milk, cheeses, whole grain flours, honey and maple syrup are available only at the farm. Fruit and vegetables are sold also at local food coops and markets. Upinngil is open in the fall for raspberry picking and there is a picnic area. We will be open from 10-5 for farm tours, including our milking and cheesemaking facilities, with sampling of cheeses and other farm specialties. Tours of the whole farm including pastures, vineyards, berry patches at 2:00 and 4:00 p.m. There will be a butter making demo at noon.

Directions to Upinngil Farm
Take I-91 to either RTs 2 or 10 and travel east:
From RT 2 go 3 miles north on Main Rd in Gill
From RT 10 go 2 miles south on Main Rd in Gill