Mark your calendar for Cabot’s annual Open Farm Sunday

Farm families across New England invite you to celebrate local, sustainable dairy farming during Cabot Creamery Cooperative’s annual Open Farm Sunday, set this year for October 13.

An expected 51 farmers will throw open their barn doors for tours and info sessions from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. All participating farms are members of the Cabot Creamery Cooperative.

Visitors will experience family traditions and local flavors, meet farmers, see their cows, join in barnyard activities and of course, sample delicious award-winning Cabot cheese.

Check out the list of participating farms and find the one in your neck of the woods:

Connecticut

• Blue Slope Country Museum and Farm, Franklin
• Fairview Farms LLC, Woodstock
• Freund’s Farm Inc., East Canaan
• Greenbacker’s Brookfield Farm, Durham
• Hastings Farm, Suffield
• House of Hayes, North Granby
• Laurelbrook Farm, East Canaan
• Thorncrest Dairy, Goshen

Maine

• Krebs Organic Dairy Farm, Starks
• Pleasantville Farm, Warren
• University of Maine – Witter Center, Old Town

Massachusetts

• Barstows Longview Farm, Hadley
• Fletcher Farm, Southampton
• Great Brook Farm, Carlisle
• Lolans Farm, Middleboro
• Tully Farms Inc., Dunstable
• Whittier Farms, Sutton

New Hampshire

• Echo Farm Puddings, Hinsdale
• Sanctuary Farm, Sunapee
• Taylor Farm Inc., Meriden

Rhode Island

• Emma Acres, Exeter
• Ocean-Breeze Farm, Westerly

Vermont

• Andersonville Dairy LLC, West Glover
• Bouchard Farm, Stowe
• Doton Farm LLC, Woodstock
• Emergo Farm, Danville
• Foster Brothers Farm, Middlebury
• Kayhart Brothers, LLC, Addison
• Liberty Hill Farm, Rochester
• Missisquoi Valley Farm, Westfield
• Molly Brook Farm, LLC, West Danville
• Rupert Valley Holsteins, West Rupert
• Southwind Farm, North Rupert
• UVM Cream, South Burlington
• Wallace Farm, Waterbury
• Wheeler Farm, Wilmington
• Woodnotch Farms Inc., Shoreham

And if you happen to be passing through New York on October 13, check out some or all of these great local farms also participating in Open Farm Sunday:

• Coon Brothers Farm, Amenia
• Country Cousins Farm, Evans Mills
• Dellavale, Pattersonville
• Dimock Farms LLC, Peru
• Douglas Farm, Ilion
• Five Mile Farm, Lisbon
• Hidden View Farm, LLC, Champlain
• Kenyon Hill Farm, Cambridge
• LiddleHolme, Argyle
• Maple Downs Farms II, LLC, Middleburgh
• Tiashoke Farms, Schaghticoke
• Toll Gate Farm, Ancramdale
• Willow Brook Farms, Millerton
• Windstott Farm, Genoa

PS — For those who can’t make it to a farm, don’t miss out on all the fun – visit Cabot Coop family farmers online at a ‘Virtual Farm Tour’ at www.OpenFarmSunday.coop.