BIG FOOT FOOD FOREST
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Building a food forest and permaculture farm in Western Massachusetts

About us

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Serious stuff: we want to have a big, healing footprint on the Earth.  We do this by building a food forest that mimics natural ecosystems, paying attention to soil life and wildlife, and sequestering carbon.  We also want to harvest lots of yummy food - nuts, fruits, mushrooms, eggs, herbs, corn, beans ...!  We read, talk, listen, teach, and experiment and write about it for others. Intriguingly, we find that farming makes us better people.  Learn more by hopping over to the "About" pages.

Recent blog post

Leasons from an English farm: using bokashi and Johnson-Su composting
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The greatest delight of travel is to see and learn things that you cannot at home. Yesterday was an instance of just such a pleasure in England, as our friend and host Karen, took me took me to visit her friends Phil, Heather, and Monty of Lower Blackmere farm in Herefordshire. The three of them spent two hours showing me around the farm, which was incredibly generous, given how busy they are. Thank you! I wish I had remembered to take an overall photo of my hosts and their beautiful farm; I did remember to take some "tech" photos though!
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Our current products

Find our produce - eggs, gourmet mushrooms, blueberries - at the Greenfield Farmer's market!
For our purebred babydoll lambs contact [email protected]
Blueberries as long as season lasts!
Rainbow eggs - market or CSA
Babydoll ram lambs - purebred, registered.
Gourmet mushrooms!

Best latest photo

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Lambing time is always super special. These two brothers were the first to arrive on March 2: Zelensky (Zelli) and Starmer (Starmi) in honor of the historic meeting in London that day….

Big Foot Letters

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​Our blog posts started out as letters to friends and family to tell them about what we were doing, dreaming, thinking about as the Big Foot Food Forest came alive and grew.   In these posts we write about our trees, berries, chickens, sheep, building projects and our general ruminations on farming in today's world.  We hope that by sharing our stories, others can learn from what we did and are doing - including our many mistakes!  Read some of our posts in the "Letters" pages!

Get Involved

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There are many ways to get involved in the farm:

Join the Big Foot Chicken Rainbow Egg CSA
Help us and join the compost pick up! .
Stay at the farm
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Contact us if you just want to visit
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Contact us directly

[email protected]
781-428-1670
16 Hatchery Road
Montague, MA, 01352
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  • Home
  • Big Foot Letters
    • Newbie Farmer
    • Chicken Letters
    • Building
    • Mushrooms
    • Heritage sheep
    • Instructionals
    • 2025
    • 2024
    • 2023
    • 2022
    • 2021
    • 2020
    • 2019
    • 2018
    • 2017
  • About
    • What we do
    • Who We Are
    • Our Local Partners
    • Past newsletters
    • Contact
  • Shop
    • Lambs for sale
    • Rainbow Egg CSA
    • Mushroom CSA
    • Food Scrap Exchange
    • Straw Bale House Workshop >
      • Register for Workshop
  • Visit
    • Community work days
  • Untitled