Carlwood Farm, LLC

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Carlwood Farm, LLC Carlwood Farm is a small, family-run dairy farm nestled in the heart of Canaan Valley in Canaan, CT. In 2018, Doug passed away. They raised 3 children.

Visitors driving down Canaan Valley Road might notice a small, white hanging sign displaying clean hand-painted letters and a portrait of a Holstein. According to the sign, the property - neatly tucked in the northwest corner of Connecticut, just a few miles south of Sheffield, Massachusetts - goes by the name Carlwood Farm and is under the care of the Carlson/Boardman Family. The Carlsons trace their American farming roots to Dougโ€™s grandfather, who immigrated from Sweden, and purchased a plot of land near Canaan in the early 20th century. Eventually Dougโ€™s father of the same name would purchase his own plot, which was to become Carlwood farm, and at the time only consisted of a single acre. In 1962, when Doug was just 17, his father passed away, and he took over the operation, helped by his mother Isabelle. Along with Crystalle, his wife of 51 years, he managed to grow and expand the farm. Now, Carlwood is run by his daughter Sandy and her family Sheri, Rene and Ricky Jr.. Though the farm started out with only one tillable acre and a herd of 20 cows, over the years Carlwood has grown. The farm now consists of 200 acres, and has more than 50 registered Holstein milkers, along with a handful of Jerseys that belong to his grandchildren.

โ€œWe produce good, clean milk every single day,โ€ remarked Doug in an interview. โ€œIโ€™m extremely proud of that. Our facilities are not the most modern, but that doesnโ€™t matter. Weโ€™ve won quality awards from Agri-Mark 17 out of the last 19 years. Consistently producing great milk is whatโ€™s important". In 2020, Carlwood Farm was chosen by Arethusa Farm Dairy, to start shipping our milk direct to them, through our Agri-Mark Co-op. We are excited to have placed 9th in our Region for Excellent quality milk in 2020. Sandy married the milk truck driver, Rick. Their daughter Sheri Lloyd has her Masters from Cornell and is an Ag Ed teacher in NY. She married Greg Lloyd of Maple Downs Farm in 2020 and they blessed us with a beautiful baby girl in July. Rene graduated from SUNY Cobleskill and went on to become an Ag teacher at Housatonic Valley Reg, High School. Ricky Jr is the head honcho of Boardmans Farmstand, a 50 plus year old family vegetable stand and helps with all the crops at Carlwood. We are extremely proud to be 1 of the 800 cooperative farms that owns Cabot cheese.

My favorite time of year! Corn is all planted and everyone is enjoying the sunshine.
05/28/2026

My favorite time of year! Corn is all planted and everyone is enjoying the sunshine.

05/03/2026

Mr Wheeler Celebration of Life

Come join us April 19th! ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’›
03/17/2026

Come join us April 19th! ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’›

Help us spread the word about the event!

Do you have a spot at your business or workplace where we could hang a poster? If so, let me know and Iโ€™ll be happy to get one to you.

Your help promoting the event makes a big difference and helps us reach more families in our community!

03/12/2026
Blizzard Calvin tried to slow things down this morning, but classification day was a success! Not many pictures ๐Ÿคฃ We wil...
02/24/2026

Blizzard Calvin tried to slow things down this morning, but classification day was a success!

Not many pictures ๐Ÿคฃ We will save those for a sunny day.

Highlights:
๐‚๐š๐ซ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐‚๐ก๐ข๐ž๐Ÿ ๐Š๐ข๐ฐ๐ข ๐•๐†๐Ÿ–๐Ÿ“ 2-01
๐‚๐š๐ซ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐‚๐ก๐ข๐ž๐Ÿ ๐‰๐จ๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐š ๐•๐†๐Ÿ–๐Ÿ” 2-01
๐‚๐š๐ซ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐‚๐ก๐ข๐ž๐Ÿ ๐‹๐จ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ซ๐ž ๐•๐†๐Ÿ–๐Ÿ“ 2-01
๐Š๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ-๐‘๐š๐ง๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ž ๐‚๐š๐ฆ๐ซ๐ฒ๐ง-๐„๐“ ๐•๐†๐Ÿ–๐Ÿ• @1-11
๐˜‰๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜บ๐˜ฆ ๐˜น 94 ๐˜Š๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜น ๐˜น 95 ๐˜Š๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ฆ

๐‚๐š๐ซ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐†๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ž ๐†๐ž๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐š ๐„๐—๐Ÿ—๐ŸŽ
๐†๐จ๐จ๐Œ๐จ๐จ ๐”๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฒ ๐„๐—๐Ÿ—๐ŸŽ @3-01
๐˜œ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฑ๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ ๐˜น ๐˜š๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ-๐˜’๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜—๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜š๐˜š ๐˜—๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ ๐˜๐˜Ž87 ๐˜น ๐˜“๐˜ช๐˜ฏ-๐˜™๐˜ฐ ๐˜ˆ-๐˜”๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜—๐˜ข๐˜ต-๐˜Œ๐˜› ๐˜Œ๐˜Ÿ91

โœจ๐ŸŽ„โค๏ธ Merry Christmas from our family to yours! โค๏ธ๐ŸŽ„โœจ
12/25/2025

โœจ๐ŸŽ„โค๏ธ Merry Christmas from our family to yours! โค๏ธ๐ŸŽ„โœจ

12/19/2025

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08/17/2025

Proud to have 2 on this list! ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿ–ค๐Ÿค

It is days like today that won't let my heart retire from the farm yet. Carlwood Farm was established in 1941 by my gran...
07/17/2025

It is days like today that won't let my heart retire from the farm yet. Carlwood Farm was established in 1941 by my grandparents. In the early 60's when my parents took over, they began to classify the cows. Many, many years later and several generations forward, we continue to classify. Today was the day! It makes my heart proud to see the accomplishments we make from the daily grind of ass busting work. To me, there is something special about knowing the past generations of cow families in the herd. A few of our highlights from today:
๐Ÿ’ฅCarlwood Bailey Gallup raised to Ex90. Her dam was Ex90.
๐Ÿ’ฅCarlwood Mayflower Frosty raised to Ex90 at 6 1/2 years (finally caught her in peak condition on scoring day)
๐ŸŒŸFrosty's 2yr old daughter by Addison just fresh 2 months VG87.
๐ŸŒŸCarlwood Crush Elizabeth raised 2 to VG87.
๐ŸŒŸCarlwood Denver Hoti raised a point VG86.
๐ŸŒŸCarlwood Genesee Gelana raised a point to VG88. owned by Sheri and Greg.
๐ŸŒŸGoomoo Unstopable Prissy VG87 as a 2yr old, owned by Sheri and Greg

More highlights with their photos. (I was busy moving cows in and out so I didnโ€™t get any pictures as they were being scored.)

06/28/2025

๐Ÿ†Best Bred & Owned of the show went to Carlwood Genese Gelena bred and owned by Greg & Sheri Lloyd.

๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽŠCongratulations๐ŸŽŠ๐ŸŽ‰

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141 Canaan Valley Road
Canaan, CT
06018

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+18606711917

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