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We accept Visa, Master Card, American Express, & Discover Cards We are also Handicap Accessible The Strawbale Cafe (walls are constructed with straw bales) is open, year round, on Friday, Saturday, & Sunday's, 8 am to 1 pm, Breakfast & Lunch Fri & Sat. Sunday's we only serve Breakfast. Important Dates: Fri & Sat April 25th and April 26th, and again on Fri & Sat May 2nd & 3rd, we will not be serving dinner. However, we will be serving Breakfast and Lunch as usual. Leo & Nita will be on vacation in CA, for a much anticipated visit with Missa their daughter. Ginny, Judy, & Tania will be at the Cafe to serve you while we are away. We appreciate all of their efforts and thank them sincerely. Dinner, is also being served every Friday & Saturday evening 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. We encourage reservations. You may also BYO Wine & Beer. You can enjoy a home cooked meal with all the fixings. Dinners come with soup or salad, main entree that includes potato and our vegetable of the day, & Nita's homemade bread. If you prefer a lighter fare we do offer grinders, sandwiches, salads, or soups. There is also a wonderful selection of homemade desserts to choose from, also many flavor's of Snow's Nice Cream (division of Bart's). Hope to see you soon. Our outdoor firepit will be going on Friday & Saturday evenings, at the request of our guest, and with the weather permitting. June 1st we will again start our ice cream social at our firepit. You will be able to enjoy a meal inside the cafe, then retire for the remainder of your stay, with your favorite ice cream treat or desert, at our outdoor firepit. Watch the moon and stars and just enjoy the beautiful night time country setting we have here on the farm. On Sunday afternoons from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm we have Live Blue Grass Music inside the cafe for people to enjoy. During that time, our grill is closed, and only drinks and snacks are available. During our regular season breakfast hours (does not include sugaring season) our Cafe has 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, and some original art work (note cards), by Tania (one of our waitresses). 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 now closed. See all of you next summer with another round of organically produced vegetables. Our self serve stand will be back in it's original place, 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 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! |
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| Pictured above to the left is our great new Strawbale Building. Things are still done the old fashioned way, here at our sugar house, one of the oldest in the Pioneer Valley. | ||
| We make
everything by hand using no additives, just pure, delicious maple
syrup produced in our wood–fired evaporator where others have
gone to oil. Our customers say that this is why they love our syrup
and it has the taste they love. We have been making syrup in this
way for more than 50 years.
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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Directions: Our Address is 188 North Rd., which is on
the corner of North Rd., & Montague Rd., here in Westhampton
413-527-3210 for Cafe From Rt. 91 North, take Exit 19 Rte 9/Northampton. Go west on Rt. 9 then west on Rt. 66 Travel west on Rt. 66 approximately 5-6 miles. Take an immediate right after the new bridge onto N Loudville Rd, which turns into Easthampton Rd. Follow to stop sign (about 2 miles). Take right onto North Road. We are located on left approximately 1 mile from intersection. Sign for Strawbale Cafe is at roadside in front of Cafe. You can also call us at 413-527-0710 for farm & 413-527-3210 for Cafe. Gift Shop: We offer our Maple Syrup, Candy, Cream, Baskets, and Anita's photography. Our Daughter's Jennifer's Delights of the Earth Bath & Body Products, will also be offered for sale. Her line of products has grown so much it would be difficult to list. So please stop by soon. "We are located at 188 North Road, (corner of Montague Rd., & North Rd.,) Westhampton, MA." WE DO NOT SHIP INTERNATIONAL!!!! We ship anywhere in the United States. Shipping to Hawaii or Alaska is slightly more than will be calculated.
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