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Smithereen Farm

Diversified salt-water farm selling wild harvested seaweed, herbs, and blueberries as well as cultiv

05/12/2024

Seedlings for mothers day, small and medium and large pots, and sixpacks! All for sale on the porch at the farmstore ( open everyday of the week 8-3)

05/07/2024

Molting of the minke kitchen, shed a layer of pvc and on comes the beautiful rough milled hemlock board and batten from Pottles sawmill in Pembroke. Sure smells fine in this weather!

05/06/2024

We have been prepping for mother’s day! Many seedlings pushing.. And an open library day, store will be open, basil babies ready for adoptation.

05/03/2024

We are open!!!
Www.smithereenfarm.com/localfood for a calendar of local ag happenings and informstion about “ eat downeast” project as it rolls out…. If you are a producer who wants to sell in the store reach out! [email protected]

05/01/2024

smithereen farmstore is OPEN for the season!! Everyday 8 am-3pm w friendly hostesses and hosts to greet you in the “ EAT DOWNEAST” experience. We have: fresh baked cookies and muffins, homemade soups and soba noodles from the smithereen kitchen! Washington county made and grown products including: pesto, applesauce, grassfed beef, honey, candles, blueberries, jams, jellies, sprinkles and teas, freeze dried blueberries, vinegars, applesauce, cheeses, mustards, doormats, salves, duck eggs, chicken eggs, soaps, lavender, maps of passamaquoddy bay, new farmers almanacs— a whole “ publication room” in fact w posters, tee shirts, seaweed info… and of course a lot of yummy shelf stable products from Maine and from New England, and tinned fish from many oceans. Other fun items include: indigenous harvest wild rice from Minnesota, organic pasta from New York state, 4 flavors of amazing ice cream, fox potato chips, ployes mix from aaroostock, dates from california, olive oil from palestine, sweet potatoes, Maine potatoes, canadian cukecumbers, california brussel sprouts, Maine leeks, smoked bluefish pate, tempeh, casco bay butter, so many Maine cheeses, organic sour cream, Maine tofu, chocolate in many orientations, 44North coffee frehly roasted, roibos tea, chamomile tea… and for the campers /cobscook/ @ your camp / fire — organic ramen noodles, organic mochi, mayonaise for your crabmeat, cheese puffs, matches for your campfire, chapstick, flypaper, asian condiments ( ponzu! Rice vinegar tamari) compostable baby wipes! Frozen ravioli! Did I mention candy? Needhams, brittle, sesame crunchies, lolipops, coconut candies, sweedish fish, almond cookies…. Okay. See you!

04/25/2024

blueberry comission! Our partners in wild! Blueberry days august 3-4 this year w u pick and bluebery handpies!

04/18/2024

Mermaid broth lovers… back in stock! Herb salt, sprinkle, bb topping we are in a burst of MAKEFULNESS so stock your shop dear shopkeepers!

04/13/2024

We got the sea lettuce— sprinkle will be back in stock by next week!!

04/08/2024

The restoration of old buildings, an unending rabbit hole.. uncomfortable, imperfect. But with a bit of crocus energy in the afternoon light of April, it all makes sense again. Look out for the next e blast, if you arent on our list go join we have created the backend and the process for summer rentals and residencies. After these tides we will go live with it all.

04/04/2024

SHIPS May 1st!! Thanks to for the powerhouse momentum on our VAP and takeaway menu, spring 2024 is off to a blizzardy beginning— but all sorts of jazzy new equiptment in the Minke kitchen, terrans new floor paint, blazing hot dishwasher, cherry red high gloss trashcans, even a tap for the broth pot up high. MAY 1st is opening day for the farmstore, and boy are we pumped. Get your wholesale orders in! We ship product MAY 1st— go team!

04/02/2024

Join us in the orchard on April 2 for another edition of SPA DAYS.

We provide: algae bath in a personal clawfoot soaking tub, access to shared wood fired sauna, herbal tea, and muds, scrubs, salves, and creams made with ingredients grown and foraged at the farm.

You bring: a towel, a swimsuit if you want it, farm-appropriate footwear, a drinking vessel, and a sense of adventure! Also… bring a friend!

Full details and sign-up link at smithereenfarm.com/spa

Advanced sign-up is required, and spots are limited! We only have so many tubs :)

There are more SPA DAYS coming up in May and June, if you can’t make it this time.

April is a great time to visit Pembroke! We have LOW LOW TIDES workshop happening, and open hours at the Agrarian Library… you could have a really nice jam-packed long weekend!

03/19/2024

One down one to go—- we are WAY behind where we were last year but last year we had a house full of lettuce and a newborn and hardly a market to sell it to! Learning to moderate our early season

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767 Leighton Point Road
Pembroke, ME
04666

Website

http://smithereenfarm.com/

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More about Smithereen Farm

We are farming on Passamaquoddy homeland right at the US-Canada border in the tiny town of Pembroke which is in Washington County, Maine. This farmstead was established in about 1820 during the newly settled ‘golden era’ of this coastal fishing and farming community. Cobscook Bay, named for the “ boiling waters” created by our 20-foot tides, is an extremely productive marine ecosystem. In 1850 there were 27 canneries and near-daily steamships straight to Boston (via North Haven) these days you can take the ‘west bus’ and get to us from Boston in about 8 hours, by car it is more like 6 hours. The 150 acre farm is perched up on a set of glacially smoothened plateaus growing at the end of a long peninsula. The farm faces eastwards to the protected estuarine Pennamaquan River, an amazing alewife run. We also grow organic strawberries, and large veggie gardens for our farmers and summer camps and visitors. We manage 12 acres of U PICK wild Maine blueberries just down the road, a lovely bike ride. Most of the farm is a forested with spruce, balsam fir, larch, maple, birch, with patches of oaks and elms and some queenly white pines that escaped the epoch of lumber-cutting — great for trail walking and mushroom hunting.

WILD IS BEAUTIFUL

We are out here because of the abundant wild growing seaweed, herbs, flowers, mushrooms, algae, fish … which we harvest, dry and process. We are delighted to eat from a highly charged ecological food commons shared with many wild creatures, whales, moose, coyotes, foxes, grouse, bob cats, owls … and yes, many porcupines. We fertilize the gardens with seaweed and organic cow manure from nearby Tide Mill Farm, we harvest sweet fern, balsam fir boughs, hawthorn berries, spruce tips, hypericum, yarrow, goldenrod, rose petals, chokecherries, high bush cranberries, feral apples — and make lots of ferments (including fish sauce) and jams, jellies, salves and tinctures. Our featured product is organic wild blueberry jam, not too sweet! Its available for sale in our webshop, along with membership in the Smithereen’s Songline Farm Club which sends out seasonal boxes of delight.

The farm is certified-organic by MOFGA (Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association) and protected by conservation easements put in place by Maine Coast Heritage Trust, the farmhouse was kindly fixed up by Maine Farmland Trust. We are beneficiaries of these amazing organizations that have conspired to make Maine the highest per capita young farmer state in the nation! Coming into our third season on the farm we’re excited to host more visitors and campers and blueberry pickers. So far we’ve built a timberframe outdoor kitchen, composting toilet, camping platforms, fish smoke house, chicken coop, greenhouse, 2 tipis and a Bill Copperthwaite style yurt. The infrastructure continues with sauna, pergolas, more drying racks for algae and another site down in town with boat shop, carpenter shop, more housing and office space.

When you come visit you will be entranced by the wild nature and many recreational activities available. Kayaking, hiking, biking, small boats, clambakes, bird watching, foraging fruit and wild foods, swimming in lakes, endless beach walks and nary a traffic light. More than a quarter of Washington County is under some kind of conservation protection, with the Cutler Coast, Moosehorn Wildlife Refuge, Downeast Salmon Federation, Downeast Coastal Conservancy, Maine Coast Heritage Trust, Grand Lakes Stream Trust, Nature Conservancy, Maine Islands Land Trust … plenty! of camping, and exploring, and plenty of terns, eagles, gannets, shearlings, plovers, puffins, petrals, eiders, shearwaters, loons, herons, black ducks. You can watch them race up and down the surf, fluttering up in great clusters to feed, and out on the water amongst the whales, dolphins and massive schools of herring and mackerel.

We’re glad to make the farm a place of sharing and learning by hosting Greenhorns summer camp programming throughout the summer and running an AgriTourism program with tent platforms and luxe tipis for visitor accommodation (you can book on Hipcamp and Airbnb). We have a nice hot outdoor shower, glorious outdoor kitchen facilities, compost toilet and plenty of infrastructure for campfires, fish gutting and smoking, seaweed processing etc.

CAMPING AND AGRO-TOURISM

We believe in sharing this beautiful land with summer visitors who can come and learn with us about agroecology and participate in the diverse value-added products and enterprises we are engaged with— we also welcome those who come to teach us! These activities are called ‘Agrotourism’ and are part of our mission, our conservation easement, and our goal of recruiting more young farmers to this region.

Our sister organization, Greenhorns which is headquartered down the road at Reversing Hall, hosts camps and workshops, movie screenings, symposia and music events all summer long as well. Greenhorns has newly acquired some buildings along the Pennamaquan river in Downtown Pembroke to host artists in residency, mycology workshop, carpentry workshop, and a gallery space.

You can come stay on the farm during Greenhorns events, we will have group meals served in the timber-frame kitchen. If you want a more peaceful time and want to self-cater at the timber frame, then you can book when we don’t have an event going on.

We sell dried wild harvested seaweed and seaweed condiment gathered during super low tides.

We sell dried herb teas harvested from the certified organic pastures and forest edges.

We sell blueberry jam from our certified organic wild blueberry field located down the tip of Leighton Point Road, its also a U PICK and you’re welcome to come in August to pick your own. We have camp programming, workshops and music programs all summer long.

We sell wild harvested chaga from the birch forests.

125 heritage apple, pear, plum, and nut trees were planted in 2018 by Tom and Sev, and we’ve been gently pruning the grandmothers near the house. The vision, eventually, is feral and heritage hard cider!