We chose the Pioneer Valley as our permanent home for the area’s proximity to our agricultural partners. Whether it’s a cherry turnover, a blueberry scone, a pecan pie square, whoopie pie, or toffee square, there’s always something yummy coming out of Sean’s kitchen.Īrtifact Cider Project's taproom is located on-site at our state-of-the-art production cellar in Florence, Massachusetts. The Cooper’s kitchen is well-known for its abundant offerings of fresh-baked goods. Our beer inventory includes an extensive collection of micro-brews from local, regional and international brewers. Weekly menu specials give customers even more options.Ĭooper’s Corner Liquor Store stocks a wide selection of wine, beer and spirits, chosen to represent good value in all price ranges. Customers have noted that they can actually do their entire week’s grocery shopping at Cooper’s.Ĭooper’s full-service deli slices meats and cheeses to order, offers deli-made salads, prepares a wide assortment of deli sandwiches and heat-and-serve entrees to make your meal preparation easy. Beyond the bread, milk, eggs and orange juice you run in for, Cooper’s also boasts a growing number of specialty foods, like chutneys, specialty cheeses and sausages, and high quality frozen foods. Its fully stocked grocery store is much more than simply convenient. Read more about Cooper’s history here.Ĭooper’s provides one-stop shopping for customers from Florence and beyond. Once a dairy, the business has grown organically, continually evolving to meet new customer needs. We named the farm “Red Hen Farm” after the children’s story titled “The Little Red Hen”, because like her we did it ourselves.Ĭooper’s Corner, at the corner of Main and Chestnut Streets, has been a fixture in Florence Center since the 1950’s. To answer the question that we are asked most often: no we do not have chickens, nor do we sell eggs (although we used to).
Sue also makes some amazing hand creams and lip balms from the bees wax from her hives. In season, you will be able to purchase apples, sweet apple cider, blueberries and honey from our store. We also produce Mead (honey wine) from the honey from Sue’s apiary. Our fruit wines are: Apple Wine, Ice Apple Wine and Blueberry Wine. We produce fruit wines from the fruit from our farm and other local sources.
You can find dry full bodied red and white grape wines as well as softer reds & whites. Our motto is “Wines to please all palates”. Larry has been making wine since the 1990’s and like his grandfather (Antonio Pepe from Springfield, MA) enjoyed crafting wine and sharing it with family and friends. Larry and Sue have worked hard to build this small family farm and winery. See the Stores page on this web site for details on the stores and restaurants where our wines can be purchased. Although, we do have our wines in one location in Boston and one in Sturbridge MA. In addition to enjoying our wines at the winery, you can find our wines in a number of stores, mainly in the Springfield/Northampton area. We have grown to producing over 1400 cases a year. We started with 50 cases of wine and a few varieties. A dream come true for owners Larry and Sue Godard. The winery was added to the farm in 2010. There was a time when the four Godard children were working the land with us (usually not by choice), when we had chickens and sheep. It has expanded since to growing more apples, blueberries, grapes and managing our own apiary and a few out yards for our bees. Northampton was not heard of again.Godard’s Red Hen Farm started growing apples and keeping a couple bee hives in 1984. She was in company with Hardwick, but they parted during a violent storm about 50 leagues east of Bourbon. Northampton left the Nore on 20 July 1744, bound for Bombay and China.
Northampton arrived at Woolwich on 3 October. They arrived safe off of Dover on 16 September. The Indiamen Northampton, Queen Caroline, Halifax, Royal George, Kent, Scarborough, and snow Swift left St Helena on 26 June, together with their escorts, HMS Argyl and HMS Lynn. On the return leg of her voyage she traversed the Bocca Tigris on 31 December, reached the Cape on 13 April 1742, and St Helena on 25 May. Northampton left the Downs on 12 March 1741, bound for China. For both voyages she was under the command of Captain Duncomb Backwell. She was on a second voyage in 1744 when she foundered. Northampton was launched in 1740 as an East Indiaman and made one voyage in 1741 for the British East India Company (EIC). For other ships with the same name, see Northampton (East Indiaman).