Local Farmer/Artisan Visit: High Lawn Farm, Lee MA

One of our Farm to Fork partners, High Lawn Farm located in Lee, MA will be on hand to serve eggnog and provide samples of their hard ice cream.

High Lawn Farm has been in continuous operation since before 1900. The proprietorship was assumed by Colonel H. G. Wilde and Mrs. Marjorie Field Wilde in 1935 from Mrs. Wilde’s family, and today it continues under the ownership and guidance of the next generation. It is the last remaining, complete dairy farm in the Berkshires – producing, bottling and delivering its own milk – representing over 100 years in the same family. Our High Lawn Farm cows feed off fresh grass in the summer months, and almost all of their winter feed comes straight from our corn and hay fields. We don’t use genetically modified seeds and avoid harmful pesticides. There are never any animal by-products in our feed. This assures that our milk is an all-natural, artificial hormone-free product. And our cows are milked only twice a day, whereas other farms may milk their cows as many as four times a day. Because we take such a good care of our herd, our cows have a life expectancy that is twice that of many other dairy farms. As we like to put it, we have Jersey Cows, not milk machines. And perhaps we are prejudiced, but we believe the Jersey cow has the most beautiful, doe-like face of the entire bovine kingdom.