Wednesday, April 30
Last October, Cabot Creamery Cooperative and Stop & Shop Supermarket Company teamed up on a mission to teach school kids where their food comes from. The duo launched a month-long sweepstakes contest aimed at bringing an entire school class on a field trip to a working Cabot dairy farm. The winner, five-year-old Natalie Foster, has been announced and she, along with her entire kindergarten class, will spend a day at the Coombs Hill Farm, Coombs Hill Farm Road, Colrain on May 13, from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. to learn "hands-on" about cow milking and the cheese-making process.

Both Cabot Creamery and Stop & Shop believe it is important for children to know where their food comes from. This program teaches kids how Cabot dairy products are made and how they get from Cabot family-owned dairy farms to the shelves of local Stop & Shop Supermarkets.

Winners:

(1) Five-year-old Natalie Foster, winner of the sweepstakes, and all 17 of her Northfield Elementary School Kindergarten classmates will be visiting the farm. (2) Stop & Shop's Consumer Advisor Andrea Astrachan will host the field trip, including a full day of informative and educational activities designed to teach

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students about nutrition, healthy eating and the farm-to-supermarket process. (3) Coombs Hill Farm owners Charlie and Karen (née Coombs) Herzig, and their son Eric. The Coombs family-owned farm dates back seven generations to the early 1700s.