Maine Open Farm Day

Maine Open Farm Day can be held on Sunday, July 24. An annual celebration held throughout the state, open farm day is an open-house type occasion throughout which host farms prolong an invite to the general public to be taught extra about their companies and what they do.

Every farm go to is completely different, and relying in your go to, you possibly can expertise the number of agriculture on show.

Beau Chemin Preservation Farm, 1749 Finntown Street, Waldoboro sells in season berries, field-raised perennials, reduce flowers and pelargoniums. This farm makes a speciality of heritage types of livestock and crops and provides wool from 4 endangered heritage breeds of sheep. Ducklings can be found in late spring. Wool, breeding inventory, spinning demos are supplied 12 months spherical. Hours: Day by day. Name forward. Berries, perennials, flowers, eggs, ducklings are licensed natural.

Briggs Farm, 254 Jones Street, Somerville, is a small household farm on an 1860s homestead run by Corey and Alicia O’Connell. The farm focuses on elevating cows and pigs for meat, laying hens for farm contemporary eggs, farm contemporary veggies, and an apiary of bees for uncooked honey.

Broad Arrow Farm, 33 Benner Street, Bristol, is a farm specialty meals market. Broad Arrow provides pasture-raised, organic-fed meats and charcuterie, chef-prepared meals, Maine craft beers, artisanal breads and bagels, Maine cheeses and different dairy, free-range eggs, natural produce, and all of the components for breakfast, lunch, supper, and snacks.

Cape Newagen Alpaca Farm, 1020 Hendricks Hill Street, Southport, sells farm raised alpaca yarn. Cape Newagen alpacas feed on hay grown and harvested within the Midcoast. They’re raised with take care of the land which they inhabit, inside the island neighborhood wherein they stay.

Dragonfly Cove Farm, Dresden, raises and sells eggs, livestock meats, and processed merchandise.

Lakin’s Gorges Cheese East Forty Farm, positioned at 2361 Friendship Street, Waldoboro. The award successful Lakin’s Gorges Cheese was based in 2011 and produces authentic recipe cow’s milk cheeses, 12 months spherical.

Odd Alewives Farm Brewery is positioned at 99 Previous Route 1 in Waldoboro.

Pumpkin Vine Household Farm is positioned at 217 Hewett Street in Somerville. Pumpkin Vine Household Farm is a goat dairy and farm schooling heart, in addition to a neighborhood gathering place. Their Nubian and Alpine goats graze hill pastures, offering prime quality milk for a full vary of dairy merchandise, from uncooked milk, yogurt and smoothies, to contemporary and aged cheeses.

SeaLyon Farm, 1799 Alna Street in Alna, is service-disabled, veteran-owned farm rising greens, lavender, and berries on a 21-acre website. The farm grows all of their very own produce with sustainable, natural practices. They’ve all kinds of selfmade jams, dill pickles, dilly beans, tomatillo salsa, and lavender merchandise out there.

Morris Farm, 156 Gardiner Street, in Wiscasset, was based in 1995. The Morris Farm was created in an effort to protect and function one of many final remaining farms in Wiscasset. Within the ensuing years, trustees, neighborhood volunteers, members, and workers have labored tirelessly to revive and increase the farm’s buildings and take care of the land. We are actually a “Without end Farm,” as designated by the Maine Farmland Belief.

TLC Fiber and Alpaca Farm, 40 Horsecents Lane, Waldoboro, was established in 2012. They try to create a loving atmosphere for animals that want perpetually properties. One in all their objectives is for folks to come back and benefit from the animals. The homeowners endeavor to create a retreat for folks in addition to their rescued critters.