Annual Farm Tour

Our annual Farm Tour is always on the

Second Sunday in July each year

from Noon to 4pm.
Rain or Shine

Bring your walking shoes, camera and gardening questions!

As people arrive, we take groups for a talking and walking tour through and around the gardens, through the six greenhouses, past the farm equipment we use, and to our compost piles in various stages of production. The adventurous might even want to make the trek down to the sugarhouse following the maple lines down into the woods.

Here Tom pauses at the Middle Garden to describe using the Earthway Seeder to plant salad greens for cutting. As we walk around describing the crops and the care and seeding of each, we frequently stop to answer questions from someone who needs more detail about how something is done. Mulching techniques, use of drip irrigation, compost application methods and rates, variety selection, seed sources, seed saving, plant and row spacings, companion planting, crop rotation rationale, and "How do you have time to do it all?" are typical of the questions we get and are happy to discuss at length.

Refreshments will be served under cover in our shady vegetable washing area, where folks can view the walk-in cooler and outdoor sheltered potting table.

We are 3 miles from Exit 150 of I-95, just under an hour north of Augusta, or 35 miles south of Bangor.

From Exit 150, I-95 Northbound: At the end of the ramp, take a left, go under the bridge. Take your second left, in about three miles. This is the Snakeroot Road, and we are 1/2 mile on the right. All you can see is our driveway across from black mail box "3645".

From Exit 150, I-95 Southbound: At the end of the ramp, take a right. Go three and a half miles to the Snakeroot Road on the left. We are 1/2 mile down on the right. Our driveway is opposite the first house on the left. You can see our sign about 100 feet down our driveway.

From Route 2, from Skowhegan: You cross the town line into Pittsfield at a roadside lake. You can get to us by any of the next two rights. For the shortest route take the Higgins Road, the first right, about a mile from the town line. In about a mile and a half, the Snakeroot Road is a right in about 1/2 mile. We are 1/2 mile on the right. All you can see is our driveway across from black mail box "3645". Or, the second right after crossing the town line into Pittsfield is the Phillips Corner Road. Take that to a crossroad, at which take a right. Snakeroot Road is the next left, in about a mile.

From Route 100 from the south: From the Waterville - Fairfield area, take Rt 100 north to Burnham Junction (where you cross two sets of railroad track within a few hundred feet). Snakeroot Road is on the left approximately 3 miles from Burnham Junction. Follow Snakeroot Road about 4 miles. Look for our dirt driveway on left opposite a white farmhouse on right. See our sign about 100 feet down driveway. If you miss it, you'll get to the end of the Snakeroot Road in 1/2 mile. Turn around and try again.

From Unity: Take the Prairie Road (first right after the bridge on School St - Rt 139). At the second four corners, there will be a stop sign. Take a left and continue to Burnham Junction at Route 100. Take a right onto Route 100. Snakeroot Road is on the left approximately 3 miles from Burnham Junction. Follow Snakeroot Road about 4 miles. Look for our dirt driveway on left opposite a white farmhouse on right. See our sign about 100 feet down driveway. If you miss it, you'll get to the end of the Snakeroot Road in 1/2 mile. Turn around and try again.

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