Bar Harbor Farm

09/06/2024

Autumn CSA shares are now open! The fall CSA runs for six weeks from mid-October to the end of November. You can expect all different varieties of winter squash, root veggies (from rutabaga to beets to carrots), salad greens, cooking greens, tomatoes, Brussels sprouts, and more. You can sign up directly through our website (www.barharborfarm.net) or you can send us an email. We hope to see you this fall!

https://www.barharborfarm.net/csa-autumn

05/30/2024

Three weeks until the start of our summer CSA! We still have shares available for folks who are interested in signing up.

With our summer share, you can take advantage of having fresh herbs at your disposal all season long - stock up, and preserve them for the winter. Some of the herbs we offer include tarragon, Thai basil, chervil, and mint, as well as the classics like 🎵 parsley, sage, rosemary, and 🎶 - you get the idea!

The signup link can be found in our bio 🌱

What herbs are you most looking forward to this season?

05/16/2024

Spring has sprung and things on the farm are gearing up for our summer CSA. For returning members, we can't wait to see you again this season! For new members, a summer CSA share means 16 weeks of fresh, organic, crunchy, sweet, leafy goodness - a weekly share of vegetables and herbs, plus pick-your-own flowers.

Signups are open now - follow the link to sign up for your share today: https://www.barharborfarm.net/

What veggie are you most excited to cook with this summer? 🥦🍅🥬🥕🌶️🧄

01/21/2024

We are HIRING! We are looking for an experienced assistant manager to join our team full time from April 1st to November 30th. Do you (or someone you know) have a passion for organic farming and sustainability and love getting your hands dirty? Check out the job posting on our website (link in bio) for specific job requirements.

Our values at a glance, for those who don’t know us yet:

🥬 Sustainability: we strive to maintain production using no-till techniques as often as possible, in order to contribute to carbon sequestration and build on the rich biodiversity of our soil. We are all organic, all the time. Responsible, eco-centered stewardship of the land is central to our growing approach.

🥦 Community: we operate on a CSA-based farming model. Twice a week, folks come to the farm to pick up their veggies, take a peaceful walk, pick flowers, and mingle. We also sell to local food banks, and we partner with the Downeast Gleaning Initiative, in order to increase access to fresh organic food for folks in the community who are struggling with food insecurity.

🥕 Farmers helping farmers: we belong to an island-wide network of organic farmers and gardeners where we swap ideas, share equipment and labor, lend a hand as needed, and try to gather together for a potluck or fire at least once a season.

🧅 Teamwork (and fun!): we’re a strong, close-knit crew that works hard. We value efficiency, communication, innovation, and enthusiasm. Most days, we eat lunch together outside, and more often than not, it’s a home cooked meal made by one of us (we have a loose tradition of switching off cooking and baking for the crew when we have the time). On hot summer days, we often go for a dip in the ocean to cool off at lunchtime. Throughout the season we try to make time to gather for fun - whether it’s going to the lake for a picnic, having a cookout, or outdoor movie nights in the summertime.

🌻 If your values align with ours, reach out! We’d love to hear from you.

06/22/2023

Just a few fragments of what early summer looks like here on the farm - harvesting together, cooking and eating REALLY good meals together, growing gorgeous scallions and radishes and onions, crimping and mowing down rye, garlic plants growing tall, flowers blooming, sun shining.

05/30/2023

Summer CSA shares are still open! Fragrant basil, juicy cherry tomatoes, rainbow chard, pickling cucumbers, sweet-as-honey cantaloupe, knock-your-socks-off cayenne peppers….don’t miss out! With a summer share, you receive a wide variety of veggies throughout the season - enough for salads, appetizers, and the main course alike.

Sign up on our website - link in bio. Eat locally, eat seasonally, eat well 💚🌱

05/04/2023

Sweet, juicy cherry tomatoes; crisp celery for chicken salad; tender, sugary honeydew melon; dazzling rainbow chard for sautéing; mild onions for - well, what can’t you do with onions?

Plus spicy little jalapeños, tender summer squash, Chinese cabbage, pumpkins and winter squash for autumn pies, and more fresh herbs than you can dream of - all of this and more is what you get in a summer CSA share with us, from June to October. All organic, all the time. Signup is still open, so visit us at www.barharborfarm.net or send us an email today!

03/14/2023

Rose stumbled upon these squash seedlings in our compost pile last week - how incredible that there’s enough heat generated by the compost to germinate a true heat-loving crop, even with nightly freezing temperatures! It’s amazing to see the heat of an active compost pile in the dead of winter in Maine - perhaps even more amazing to behold the determination of a seed to grow, even if it means a very short life.

These squash seedlings were snuffed out the next day by the storm that covered the farm in a thick, heavy layer of snow, but they serve as a reminder that the work we do here is generating LIFE! And that very soon spring will be upon us - seeds will be sprouting not just in our compost, but in the safe haven of our potting room, nurtured and watered daily: the first step of their season-long journey from our soil to your plate.

Summer CSA shares are still available! So if you’re already dreaming about squash and you don’t want to miss out, head over to our website at www.barharborfarm.net and sign up today.

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01/31/2023

It’s that time of year! Signups for our summer CSA share are OPEN! Here’s just a fraction of the beautiful veggies, fruits, flowers, and herbs you can expect with a summer share at Bar Harbor Farm. From tender spring greens to dazzling tomato varieties to autumn classics like butternut squash and pie pumpkin, we have it all. Both full and petite shares include pick-your-own culinary herbs - parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme anyone? Pick-your-own flowers are included with the cost of the full share, and are priced by stem for the petite share.

This season, skip the lines at the grocery store and help support local regenerative agriculture within your community. We are MOFGA certified organic which means we grow everything with sun, water, and love - you never have to worry about toxic pesticides or chemical residues on your produce. From our field to your table, we grow it as nature intended.

Sign up on our website at www.Barharborfarm.net (link in bio) or send us an email at [email protected]. We can’t wait to share this season’s goodness with you!

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10/25/2022

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10/23/2022

Newly transplanted scallions in high tunnel #3, in place of the dill we grew this summer. Out with the summer veg and in with the compost and seedlings! We’ll have chard, kale, and scallions available for order this winter through the online farmer’s market, FarmDrop.

10/18/2022

Some of the awesome summer & fall veggies we’ve been harvesting lately. Tomatoes, celery, sweet peps, beets, watermelon radishes, and winter squash, just to name a few.

If you don’t have a CSA share with us, you’re missing out! We’re sold out for this autumn’s CSA, but sign up next spring for our summer CSA on our website! You’ll wish you’d done it sooner 🥕🥦🥒🧅🍉