Two addresses on Adams Road

Come up to Grass Hill.

The working farm is at one number. The seasonal shop is at another. Both are welcome — here's what to expect at each.

The Farm · Year-round

82 Adams Road.

The working farm itself — ten alpacas, a few goats, the reclaimed pasture and stonewalls. The land has been in Nancy Forster's family since 1875. It's officially a Forster Soil Management livestock-and-pasture demonstration site, and Jim and Nancy are NOFA members.

Visits welcome by arrangement — give Jim or Nancy a call first.

Open in Maps Call to arrange

Tahoma, a deep chocolate-brown alpaca, in a lush green summer pasture with a wooded hillside behind

Tahoma, in the upper pasture.

Wicker baskets of alpaca socks and folded scarves on a wooden back porch with the Grass Hill Alpacas wooden sign and hanging vines

The Backporch PacaStop · October–December

58 Adams Road.

The seasonal pop-up shop on Jim and Nancy's back porch. Christmas-decorated, baskets of socks and mittens, the wooden farm sign out front. Pull into the driveway when the PacaStop signs are out — that means we're open.

This season's hours

Tue – Fri · 4:30 – 7:30 PM
Sat – Sun · 1:00 – 6:00 PM
Mon closed.

Getting here

Ten minutes from Northampton. Up Route 9, then right on Adams Road. The house with the sign.

Get directions (413) 268-7123

Outside the season? The shop is also open online year-round.

Find us at a show

Around the valley each fall.

From the Connecticut River valley up to Stockbridge to Orange — the craft-fair circuit Jim and Nancy have been working since the fiber pivot.

Late September

Garlic & Arts Festival

Forster's Farm Field, Orange, MA. Two days outside, around three hundred booths. [Confirm 2026 dates with Jim & Nancy.]

Late September / Early October

Apple Squeeze

Lenox, MA. Berkshires fall festival weekend. [Confirm 2026 dates.]

November

Hartsbrook Family Day

The Hartsbrook School, Hadley, MA. Family fair with crafts and music.

Late November

Frontier Regional Craft Fair

South Deerfield, MA. Indoor holiday gift fair the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

Early December

Berkshire Botanical Gardens Holiday Marketplace

Stockbridge, MA. Two-day indoor holiday market in the gardens' barn. Probably our biggest pre-Christmas weekend.

Confirmed dates and any new appearances go up on Facebook first.

Love…for the land, for the animals, for family and for friends.

— Jim & Nancy Forster