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The Strawbale Cafe (walls constructed with straw bales) is Open, Year Round, on Friday, Saturday, & Sunday's, 8 am to 1 pm, Breakfast & Lunch on Friday & Saturday's. On Sunday's we only serve Breakfast/Brunch.

Please take notice of changes at our Cafe: Dinner, is no longer being served, as is Snow's Ice Cream. We found that it is just not profitable in today's economic conditions. We are a destination cafe and it was very difficult to promote and receive enough interest in Dinner's or Ice Cream to continue these venues. Thanks to all of you that stopped by to enjoy our home cooked evening meals, and summer ice cream around the open fire pit last summer. We appreciate your business. Be sure to come back though and enjoy our wonderful breakfast and lunch year round Friday, Saturday, & Sunday 8 am to 1 pm.

We have also stopped offering Bluegrass Music on Sunday afternoons during these hot summer (June, July, & August) months. It may return in the fall, but we have yet to make that decision.

During our regular year round season, the breakfast hours (does not include sugaring season) in our Cafe have a full menu of choices that include, but are not limited to pancakes, waffles, french toast, eggs (cooked to order), omelets, along with bacon, sausage, ham, hash, & veggie sausage. We also have Nita's homemade Maple Oatmeal Bread that is featured daily, and is only available in the cafe. Come by and enjoy a real home cooked meal and see all that we have to offer. You won't be disappointed.

Our gift shop, located inside the cafe has all of our maple products, along with (Jennifer our daughter's) Delights of the Earth's all natural bath & body products. There is also a beautiful selection of Nita's photographs, & Matt (a close member of our extended family) has a selection of handmade pottery for you to choose from.

Farm Stand

The vegetable season is slowly approaching. Our self serve stand will be back in it's original place, just outside our home near the driveway, under the large maple tree. It seems to be much more available to all of you. See we were watching....

As always most of the produce that we grow is used in the preparation of many of our dishes here at the Cafe. We also try to do a large enough variety of vegetables to have your favorites on the veggie stand.

We are located in Westhampton, MA, directions are listed below and to the right, close to the Berkshires of New England. Our sugar house is open to the public during the sugaring season, which is typically from the end of February to the beginning of April. If you can't wait to get here, buy some online!

Strawbale Building- We are open and serving...

The newest parts of this project are highlighted with boldness and underlines:

In pictures above, (top row) 1st photo on left: This was the very beginning of our barn, just the post & beam frame with the workers on the roof (left bottom) Angela, (top left) Missa (project coordinator), (right top & bottom) John, & Dianna who volunteered, as they put up the initial stages of the metal roof. It's come a long way since then.

Middle Photo: This is new this year (2007). We have built an outdoor fire pit, complete with benches that you can sit on and enjoy the fire, while visiting the farm during our maple syrup season. If it's busy in the dining room, and you have to wait, you can enjoy the warmth of the fire while drinking coffee and eating coffee cake, or just to hang out till it's your turn to enjoy our yummy breakfast. The third photo is an outside view of the building (notice the siding complete) and our sugarhouse, which is right next door. Notice the sugarhouse on the right, stands idle for now, but soon will be billowing steam when we begin a new season of boiling for syrup.

(Second row) 1st photo left: This is the outside view of our cafe. It's a great place to meet friends for good food, coffee and to catch up on current and times past. The second photo is an updated picture of our dining room. Notice we have lamp shades on the lights. These are old sap buckets that have hand punched drawings on them. Very cool and a great addition to our cafe. They were all hand done by our daughter Jennifer and her husband Edlin. Great job guys. The 3rd photo is the outside view of the kitchen and bathroom area to the back of the building. The red boards are recycled material from an old shed that was removed from this very site that is now home for this great new cafe.

We want to extend a great big thank you to all who volunteered their time and energy to this amazing building. Thank you from all of us....

Future hopes (2006 or 2007) will be to build a deck going around the building to the back, where people will be able to sit and enjoy the view of the mountains. A Smaller building next to the strawbale cafe is needed to house our ice cream and gift shop in future years, it will make a lot of things much easier. The flooring and diagonal walkway in the loft also needs to be built, and the old barn in back of this strawbale building will be renovated with rooms for sleeping quarters, that will serve our bed & breakfast customers. Parking areas and landscaping have been completed, the beautiful goshen rock walkways having been done by Mark Young. It is so beautiful and ads so much to our wonderful building. Things are progressing nicely and it is amazing how far this project has come since it's start back in October of 2002.

Our take out container's except for Ice Cream are still biodegradable and compostable, so if someone should leave one on the ground at a work site it would just break down to nothing in the heat of the day's sun.

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