Shaw Farm wins New England Green Pastures Award
The New England Green Pastures award celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. Award winners for 2008:
• The Shaw Farm, Dracut, Mass., founded in 1908, is owned by Warren Shaw. Warren’s son, Mark, plans to keep the dairy going. Warren’s daughters, Sarah, Lyndie, and Laurie, play key roles in the operation. Sarah’s husband, Robert Pratt, is involved in ice cream manufacture and the milk plant.
The winners will be honored at Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield, Mass., in September.
The program is sponsored by the New England Green Pastures Committee and Cooperative Extension at each of the New England land grant universities.