We would like to provide the opportunity for guests to see our animals and appreciate the simple beauty our farm holds. 

Rules for a safe, enjoyable visit:

  • This is a working farm.  For areas to remain open to the public, we require your cooperation. 

  • Your safety and the safety of your children is your responsibility. Cook Farm assumes no responsibility.
  • Due to the level of danger, children (under 18) must be very closely supervised and within arms reach at all times.  Sadly this does not always happen and we have had to ask unsupervised children to leave.
  • Our fences are electric.  If you touch the wire fence, you will get a shock.
  • Our farm is our livelihood.  It is not a playground and is not designed to be a playground.  
  • Please do not chase or tease any animals.
  • Please do NOT feed our animals anything, including hay and water.  Please rest assured that our animals are very well cared for and well fed twice a day and checked throughout the day.  Farmers are like parents...they need to know what their 'children' have eaten in order to understand if/when something is wrong and to know how to properly treat the problem.  When guests feed our animals, they may become sick if fed the wrong food or they may get sick from eating too much when they are given a full meal after being fed snacks. Again, much like a child, we will think a calf is getting sick if it does not eat.  Calves do not know when to stop drinking water and can easily become dangerously bloated.
  • The public is not allowed into any building on the farm without the expressed permission of the property owners.
  • The traffic on South Maple Street travels quickly and steadily! Please remain vigilant about the street and the speed with which traffic pulls into the parking lot.
  • The farm is closed to the public at dusk.

 
 
 
The Cook Family would like to thank EVERYONE who helped to make our 100th Anniversary Celebration SO wonderful!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

Above: Gordon Cook Jr. speaks about the history of Cook Farm.

 

 

Check out the new page for the most current generation of Fayvors - 2 photos of O-Man daughters, all VG as 2 yr olds from EX 91Freeze and EX 93Freestyle!

   Cook Farm was purchased in 1909 by Joseph Cook. It has been handed down through three generations. The farm is currently run by Gordon Jr. and Gordon III (Hank), with the 5th generation of Cook 'farmers', living on the farm. Cook Farm is proud to have won Premier Breeder for 18 consecutive years at the Massachusetts State Show. Our strongest family, the Fayvor family. is one of the best in the breed for high protein and butterfat tests. 

Our Flayvors Restaurant which opened in September 1998 has continued to expand it's menu and product line while maintaining our emphasis on quality.  We now make ice cream with Fair Trade ingredients as well!

 Travel through our web site and see our cows and our restaurant, or better yet, plan to stop by to see them in person. Print out the hours and directions to our farm and restaurant.
 
We have hutches in the front of our farm.  We've been asked about the calves in those hutches, so we'd like to explain....those calves are the future of Cook Farm.  They are hand fed and well cared for until they are big enough and strong enough to handle a group situation.   At that time, they are carefully introduced into small group settings. 

Cook Farm: 1 E. Hadley Rd. Hadley, MA 01035 
cell:413-447-1461, House:586-8785, Restaurant:584-2224 FAX: 586-6770
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