Barred Owl Brook Farm

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Barred Owl Brook Farm

An agroforestry-based farm in its nascent form nestled along the Adirondack Coast.

12/07/2025

🐏 Today we completed our 1st official seed stock ram sale. Big thanks to Michael of . We’ll miss having this handsome fella around, but Gingerbread Man is onto greener pastures. 🐏

11/21/2025

🦉🦉🦉 One night owl visiting another… 🦉🦉🦉

06/25/2025

😎🐑🌳Buckthorn gets a bad wrap, but shade is shade for the sheep when it’s 98F.

Benefits are many with silvopasture, and improved animal welfare from the shade and shelter that trees and shrubs provide is an obvious one. Perhaps less obvious is the co-benefit of increased food intake during extreme heat for animals with access to shade. Increased intake = higher average daily gain = bigger paycheck for us at the end of the season.

Photo 1: our ewe and lamb flock chillin’ in our managed buckthorn silvopasture this morning after their breakfast

Photo 2: the same group grazing at peak heat this afternoon around 4pm

Buckthorn for the win!! Lol

05/20/2025

🥭🐧 A couple exciting FIRSTS here at BOB this spring!!

—First PAWPAW flowers!! 🌺🥭 (NC-1 grafted on a northern seedling rootstock, zone 5a Champlain Valley, NY)

—First BOBOLINK!! 🐧 And perched in a buckthorn no less, for all the buckthorn haters out there Lol (apologies for the poor photo quality - the iPhone-thru-the-binos technique isn’t perfect but you at least get the idea 😝 And technically this is more of a ‘return of the bobolinks’ rather than a true 1st, but it’s a first for us since we arrived at the farm)

Exciting to see our tree planting and pasture renovation efforts beginning to bear fruit!! 🐧🥭

03/26/2025

🌳🌳🌳Join us May 3rd for an awesome tree planting project along Owl Brook in the headwaters of our beloved Boquet River!!

Scan the code to register by April 19th!!

BONUS: There will be lambs!!! 🐑🐑🐑🥰

11/01/2024

🐑🌳👨🏽‍🌾 Curious what all we’re up to here at the farm and how it fits into the larger movement to build a more resilient and just food system??

Two FREE upcoming opportunities to hear Alex speak on sheep, trees and climate resilience:

—For local folks, join us at the .free.library on 11/6 at 7pm ET

—For anyone with internet, join us for the (EAPK) monthly webinar series on 11/13 at 7pm ET. Registration required - register for free at https://easternalliancekatahdins.com/webinarregister/

Hope to see you there!!

Photo credit: Eric Teed

10/18/2024

🌰🍁☀️🍂🌰Join us tomorrow at the Whallonsburg Grange for the NY Nut Growers fall meeting!! We are honored to be the host farm for this event! ☺️

It’s shaping up to be an incredible fall day to geek out about nuts!!

The organizers have asked that everyone register, but you are more than welcome to just drop in for the afternoon farm tour starting around 1:15.

Register at: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/newyorknutgrowersassociation/1395678

(Sorry for the late notice!! Meant to post this sooner 😬)

10/17/2024

Beautiful night for a first frost 🌔❄️🐑🐺🌳

10/01/2024

🐺🦔🤕 Welp, Acacia got quilled for the third time today. Believe it or not, this is a big improvement over the other two occasions, each of which required sedation to remove 200+ quills 💸 So at least she’s learned a partial lesson.

06/02/2024

🌱🌿🌳 Plant Sale June 7 & 8!! 🌱🌿🌳

Curious about what’s happening in our fledgling tree nursery?? Join us for our FIRST EVER plant sale at the farm this coming Friday and Saturday! We’ll be selling potted trees and shrubs in addition to our Walk-In Cooler Clear Out bare root sale - 50% off all remaining inventory! We’ll also have some elder and willow cuttings available for those looking to do some of their own propagation.

Stay tuned this week as we’ll profile some of the plants we’ll have available!

Address

735 Lakeshore Road
Westport, NY
12936

Website

https://www.barredowlbrookfarm.com/

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