Welcome to Laughing Dog Farm

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!)