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THE BASICS
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    Agriculture Plan (CSA)
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Directions to our Farm
 • From a Run Out Hayfield to
    a Prosperous Organic Farm
    in Ten Easy Years

 • Get Real. Get Organic!
 • History of Our Farm
 • Pictures of the Farm
 • Where We Buy
 • Where We Sell
 • Our Yearly Work Schedule
 • Just Pretty
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OUR PEOPLE
 • Working Here
 • Our Apprentices
 • Our Farm Workers
 • Pictures of Us at Market

WHAT WE GROW
 • Fresh Vegetables
 • Fresh Fruit
 • Fresh Herbs
 • Perennials
 • Aloe - a magical plant
 • Our Bird Houses
 • Lupines
 • Maple Syrup
 • Rosemary Plants
 • Lovage, Tansy & Yarrow
 • Celery & Celeriac
 • Sunchokes
 • New Eng. Long Pie Pumpkin
 • Dried Vegetables
 • Dried Culinary Herbs
 • What We Will & Won't Ship
TOMATOES
 • Tomato Seedlings
 • Tomato Seeds We Offer
 • Tomato Seed Production
GARLIC
 • About Garlic
 • Garlic for Sale
 • Garlic Year Round
 • Mulching Garlic
 • Growing Rounds from Bulbils
 • Planting Garlic

MULCHING
 • Using Mulches
 • Combatting Witchgrass
    with Mulch

 • We Want Your Leaves!
 • In Praise of Chips

FOOD & FARMING INFO
 • Buying in Bulk for
    Storage, Canning & Freezing

 • Winter Storage Tips
 • Crop Rotations
 • Drip Irrigation
 • Low Pressure Water
 • Planting with Spreadsheets
 • Greenhouse Vegetable
    Production

 • Let-tuce Begin
 • Our Outbuildings
 • The Story of Our Cooler
 • Recipe Favorites
 • Our "Remay Roller"

OPINIONS & IDEAS
 • Being Green
 • Digging Potatoes by Hand
 • Farmers' Markets in 2012
 • History of Pittsfield
 • Hybrids or Open Pollinated?
 • Making Websites
 • Open Source Software

FARM TRANSITION…
    Our Retirement Plan
 • How Should a Farmer Retire?
 • Impediments to the want-to-be     farmer
 • Reducing the Value
    of the Land

 • Who Will Farm Here When
    We're Gone?

 • Apprentice Terms and Stages
 • From Apprentices to Partners
 • Transferring Farm Ownership





…and now for something completely different…

At dawn
Canoe bow waves are quickly lost
    on the shoreside
But go on out of sight
    on the lake side.

-1986


The constant swish-swish of skis
    On a day long ski.
The constant swish-swish of wiper blades
    On a day long drive.

-1990


My dog, trotting barefoot
Steps on a garden slug
And thinks
Nothing of it.

-1999


Word spreads quickly
as I approach the pond.
All becomes quiet.

-1997


Hidden in the vines
a large warted cucumber
jumps out of reach.
A toad!

-1997


Delicate puffs
of marshmallow snow
carefully perched
on a branch,
await the trigger of my hat
to melt their way down my back.

-2010
Deep in the tomato jungle
Fruits of yellow, purple and red
Tell of their readiness
To go to market.

-2010
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[Snakeroot Organic Farm]
on the Snakeroot Road in Pittsfield, Maine
27 Organic Farm Road, Pittsfield ME 04967
ph (207) 487-5056

Gardeners to the public since 1995.

[Tom & Lois Oct-09 pic]
lois@snakeroot.net or tom@snakeroot.net

Snakeroot Organic Farm is a MOFGA certified organic farm with five acres of gardens producing mixed vegetables, fruits, perennials and herbs. We also operate a 300 tap maple sugarbush and six greenhouses for producing seedlings and early and late vegetables. Tom and Lois have been farming together since 1990, and have over 40 years combined experience growing organically in Maine.

Learn all you wanted to know about our farm (and more!) by using the menu on the left. We believe it is important not only to let the public know in detail how we farm, but to be an information resource to other farms, new or not so new. Over the years we have learned a tremendous amount from others and this is one way we can repay our debt to the agricultural community at large.

We have been building this website since 1998, each year adding pages and photos during the (relatively) less busy winter months. Today, there are over 50 pages included here. We have found that this website performs three functions: 1) Promotion of our farm and its products; 2) Providing information and education to anyone interested in growing on a small scale; and 3) A journal of how the farm has developed over the years—the website has become our primary way or recording this for our own records.




owned and operated by
Tom Roberts & Lois Labbe
27 Organic Farm Road, Pittsfield Maine 04967
ph. 207-487-5056
Tom@snakeroot.net or Lois@snakeroot.net
http://www.snakeroot.net/farm
Gardeners to the public since 1995.
© 2008 Snakeroot Organic Farm



[Tom and Lois at Trailer]
Lois and Tom with the trailer we hauled to market behind our Honda Civic when we began farming here in '95.


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Oil painting of Tom and Lois
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