Laughing Dog Farm

Meet the Farmers

My wife, Divya Shinn and I, (Danny Botkin) and various seasonal interns, volunteers, neighbors, family members, and friends for thirty years have run a unique and diversified homestead and organic "micro-farm" in central Franklin County, Massachusetts.

Laughing Dog Farm consists of 3+ acres of raised beds, two greenhouses, inter-planted perennials, vegetables, flowers, herbs, fruit and nut trees, as well as a small herd of delightful, multi-purpose, dairy goats.

Our mission here is not only to steward the land and grow the finest food in the world, all year long, for ourselves and others... But also to teach, promote and inspire wider participation in small-plot, "permaculture-inspired", food production! (...and have an abundantly good time doing it!)

Seed Saving

The miracle of heirloom genetics...

Season Extension

Workshops

Photos

Laughing Dog Farm Events

Name	Date and Time	Location
LDF Summer Solstice Celebration	2026-06-21 14:00 Sunday, June 21, 2026 at 2:00 PM	Laughing Dog Farm
Community Work Day	2026-07-05 10:00 Sunday, July 5, 2026 at 10:00 AM	Laughing Dog Farm
Community Work Day	2026-08-02 10:00 Sunday, August 2, 2026 at 10:00 AM	Laughing Dog Farm
Community Work Day	2026-09-06 10:00 Sunday, September 6, 2026 at 10:00 AM	Laughing Dog Farm
Community Work Day	2026-10-04 10:00 Sunday, October 4, 2026 at 10:00 AM	Laughing Dog Farm
Community Work Day	2026-11-01 10:00 Sunday, November 1, 2026 at 10:00 AM	Laughing Dog Farm

See Full Calendar

Laughing Dog Farm News

Heirloom Tomatoes for Sales

in honor of our late friend the King of Heirloom Tomatoes in western Mass Fred Swedberg.
Posted: 2026-05-13

Gill Farmer Experiences 'Miracle Healing'

Danny Botkin of Laughing Dog Farm shares recovery journey
Posted: 2025-07-18

Summer 2019 Classes at Laughing Dog

Three exciting upcoming workshops on Goats, Mushrooms and Guerrilla Gardening
Posted: 2019-06-19

Taming Kids Civilizes Humanity

The power of touch reveals itself doubly relevant for the 'feral' farmer who discovers his last, great calling nurturing “kids” and tending a herd of wooly milk meisters...
Posted: 2018-04-16

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lucee.runtime.PageContextImpl._doInclude(PageContextImpl.java:1019) at lucee.runtime.PageContextImpl.doInclude(PageContextImpl.java:1011) at lucee.runtime.tag.CFTag.doInclude(CFTag.java:333) at lucee.runtime.tag.CFTag.cfmlStartTag(CFTag.java:259) at lucee.runtime.tag.CFTag.doStartTag(CFTag.java:193) at _pagesections_cfm$cf.call(/_PageSections.cfm:142) at lucee.runtime.PageContextImpl._doInclude(PageContextImpl.java:1125) at lucee.runtime.PageContextImpl._doInclude(PageContextImpl.java:1019) at lucee.runtime.PageContextImpl.doInclude(PageContextImpl.java:1000) at content_cfm$cf.call(/content.cfm:145) at lucee.runtime.PageContextImpl._doInclude(PageContextImpl.java:1125) at lucee.runtime.PageContextImpl._doInclude(PageContextImpl.java:1019) at lucee.runtime.PageContextImpl.doInclude(PageContextImpl.java:1011) at lucee.runtime.tag.CFTag.doInclude(CFTag.java:333) at lucee.runtime.tag.CFTag.cfmlStartTag(CFTag.java:259) at lucee.runtime.tag.CFTag.doStartTag(CFTag.java:193) at tmpl_contractor_h_html$cf.call(/tmpl_Contractor_h.html:11) at lucee.runtime.PageContextImpl._doInclude(PageContextImpl.java:1125) at lucee.runtime.PageContextImpl._doInclude(PageContextImpl.java:1019) at lucee.runtime.PageContextImpl.doInclude(PageContextImpl.java:1000) at index_cfm$cf.call(/index.cfm:37) at lucee.runtime.PageContextImpl._doInclude(PageContextImpl.java:1125) at lucee.runtime.PageContextImpl._doInclude(PageContextImpl.java:1019) at lucee.runtime.listener.ClassicAppListener._onRequest(ClassicAppListener.java:66) at lucee.runtime.listener.MixedAppListener.onRequest(MixedAppListener.java:44) at lucee.runtime.PageContextImpl.execute(PageContextImpl.java:2817) at lucee.runtime.PageContextImpl._execute(PageContextImpl.java:2804) at lucee.runtime.PageContextImpl.executeCFML(PageContextImpl.java:2775) at lucee.runtime.engine.Request.exe(Request.java:45) at lucee.runtime.engine.CFMLEngineImpl._service(CFMLEngineImpl.java:1233) at 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java.lang.Throwable	initCause(java.lang.Throwable)
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void	printStackTrace(java.io.PrintStream)
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lucee.runtime.exp.NativeException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 10; DOCTYPE is disallowed when the feature "http://apache.org/xml/features/disallow-doctype-decl" set to true. at lucee.runtime.text.xml.ThrowingErrorHandler.fatalError(ThrowingErrorHandler.java:44) at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(Unknown Source) at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source) at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source) at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(Unknown Source) at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$PrologDriver.next(Unknown Source) at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(Unknown Source) at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.next(Unknown Source) at 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lucee.runtime.PageContextImpl._doInclude(PageContextImpl.java:1019) at lucee.runtime.PageContextImpl.doInclude(PageContextImpl.java:1011) at lucee.runtime.tag.CFTag.doInclude(CFTag.java:333) at lucee.runtime.tag.CFTag.cfmlStartTag(CFTag.java:259) at lucee.runtime.tag.CFTag.doStartTag(CFTag.java:193) at _pagesections_cfm$cf.call(/_PageSections.cfm:142) at lucee.runtime.PageContextImpl._doInclude(PageContextImpl.java:1125) at lucee.runtime.PageContextImpl._doInclude(PageContextImpl.java:1019) at lucee.runtime.PageContextImpl.doInclude(PageContextImpl.java:1000) at content_cfm$cf.call(/content.cfm:145) at lucee.runtime.PageContextImpl._doInclude(PageContextImpl.java:1125) at lucee.runtime.PageContextImpl._doInclude(PageContextImpl.java:1019) at lucee.runtime.PageContextImpl.doInclude(PageContextImpl.java:1011) at lucee.runtime.tag.CFTag.doInclude(CFTag.java:333) at lucee.runtime.tag.CFTag.cfmlStartTag(CFTag.java:259) at lucee.runtime.tag.CFTag.doStartTag(CFTag.java:193) at tmpl_contractor_h_html$cf.call(/tmpl_Contractor_h.html:11) at lucee.runtime.PageContextImpl._doInclude(PageContextImpl.java:1125) at lucee.runtime.PageContextImpl._doInclude(PageContextImpl.java:1019) at lucee.runtime.PageContextImpl.doInclude(PageContextImpl.java:1000) at index_cfm$cf.call(/index.cfm:37) at lucee.runtime.PageContextImpl._doInclude(PageContextImpl.java:1125) at lucee.runtime.PageContextImpl._doInclude(PageContextImpl.java:1019) at lucee.runtime.listener.ClassicAppListener._onRequest(ClassicAppListener.java:66) at lucee.runtime.listener.MixedAppListener.onRequest(MixedAppListener.java:44) at lucee.runtime.PageContextImpl.execute(PageContextImpl.java:2817) at lucee.runtime.PageContextImpl._execute(PageContextImpl.java:2804) at lucee.runtime.PageContextImpl.executeCFML(PageContextImpl.java:2775) at lucee.runtime.engine.Request.exe(Request.java:45) at lucee.runtime.engine.CFMLEngineImpl._service(CFMLEngineImpl.java:1233) at lucee.runtime.engine.CFMLEngineImpl.serviceCFML(CFMLEngineImpl.java:1190) at lucee.loader.engine.CFMLEngineWrapper.serviceCFML(CFMLEngineWrapper.java:99) at lucee.loader.servlet.jakarta.CFMLServlet.service(CFMLServlet.java:41) at jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:710) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:128) at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:53) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:107) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:165) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:77) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:492) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:113) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:83) at 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DOCTYPE is disallowed when the feature "http://apache.org/xml/features/disallow-doctype-decl" set to true. org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 10; DOCTYPE is disallowed when the feature "http://apache.org/xml/features/disallow-doctype-decl" set to true. ... 73 more Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 10; DOCTYPE is disallowed when the feature "http://apache.org/xml/features/disallow-doctype-decl" set to true. at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source) ... 72 more

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Welcome to Laughing Dog Farm

Meet the Farmers

Laughing Dog Farm Events

Laughing Dog Farm News

`Welcome to Laughing Dog Farm`