June 1st, 2008

Welcome to the new and improved shawfarm.com web site!

We hope you enjoy the many new features we have included in the new site.

As you will see, the new site provides opportunities to read about our 100 year history, and look at some of the pictures taken along the way. Our home delivery customers will find it much easier to review our product offerings and help them make changes in delivery orders. Those interested in taking advantage of our service can now get most of their questions answered on line while they decide if home delivery works for them.

We also try to answer many of the questions folks have about our milk products.

One of the frequently asked questions about out farm is “do we use artificial growth hormones”. The short answer is no, but click on growth hormones and learn much more about how FDA looks at the issue and how that effects consumer’s right to know

Interested in one of our Monday night Barn tours?

We now provide you an opportunity to sign up on line by clicking on Monday night barn tours.

So many times we get questions about pasteurization and how it affects taste and food quality. Still others wonder if we sell “raw” milk. To get all of these answers, just visit the “How and why” section of the web site.

We also provide a special web page on our new “certified organic” milk products, sold under the name “New England Organic Creamery” available both at our farm store and at several other locations. Find our list of wholesale customers by clicking on links.

The weekend of June 28^th and 29^th, we celebrate our 100^th anniversary; we hope you’ll stop by.

We’ll have live radio with 980 WCAP broadcasting live from the farm including a special edition of Saturday Morning Live, starting at 6am. Saturday Morning Live is hosted by Shaw Farm owner Warren Shaw. The broadcast can also be heard all around the world by logging on to www.980wcap.com and click on “listen”.

We’ll have lots of fun stuff for the family.

We kick things off on Saturday with a skydiver “flying” into our event while we are serving breakfast to some of our longest and most loyal customers. We have located over 200 customers who have been supporting our farm for 25 to 75 years.

Music, face painting, caricatures, hay rides, barn tours on the hour and hands on cow milking all happening during the day.

At 4pm we continue our thanks to you day with a cook out at the ice cream stand.

Sunday will be “make your own sundae Sunday” at the stand featuring our ice cream and local strawberries from Parlee Farm beginning at 2pm.

We’ll also have a scavenger hunt in a hay pile for kids at 4pm

Sunday will also include barn tours, face painting, caricatures and cow milking.

Lots of fun!!!

A special thanks to Orville Deutchman, our web guy and computer expert, for doing a fabulous job of developing our new web site.

We love the new website, we hope you do also.

See you on the 28^th and 29^th!

warren