Common Wealth Farm LLC

01/27/2026

Jan. 25 and Jan 27

10/29/2025

In response to the SNAP funding crisis, MFFM will continue providing Maine Harvest Bucks at farmers' markets regardless of whether your card has remaining funds.

When you show your EBT card at the Info Booth of any participating farmers' market, you'll receive $15 in Maine Harvest Bucks to spend on fresh produce. You can do this every time you visit the market in the month of November.

Maine Harvest Bucks is our statewide food access program that makes shopping at the farmers' market more affordable, and pays farmers the full retail value for their work.

Normally, when you spend SNAP/EBT at the farmers' market, you earn matching bonus Maine Harvest Bucks. SNAP shoppers are an essential part of the farmers' market community and we will do all we can to support you.

If you still have funds on your EBT card, you can continue spending them, and the regular Maine Harvest Bucks match is still in effect.

Find a list of all currently open participating farmers' markets at https://www.maineharvestbucks.org

Not a SNAP shopper, but want to help? We need you.
Maine Harvest Bucks is a highly efficient, effective food security and farmer support program. It empowers over 30,000 Maine households to eat more fresh, local food, and brings over $750,000 a year in direct, full-value sales to Maine farmers' market vendors. Learn more here: https://mainefarmersmarkets.org/emergency-maine-harvest-bucks-available/

09/08/2025

This is the most difficult post I've ever written. How do you honor a loved one without writing volumes about him? How do you name all the ways in which he meant so much to you and your family? How do you repay all the selfless moments he bestowed on family and friends? There is no way to harness all the humor with which he gently teased with a twinkle in his eye. Silos can't hold the tears he shed for any hurts his family experienced. And arguably, no heart could be larger than his with the pride he had for his family.

Most recently, many of you knew Charlie for 14 years as the local purveyor of some fine chicken! Others remember him as an engineer at Pratt and Whitney before he took early retirement in 2008. But, when writing or speaking about Charlie, you all mentioned the same things: Beautiful soul, sweet, calm, friendly, kind, and patient, with a bright smile. I'm thankful you remember him that way and let me know.

My family and I are so grateful for your condolences and prayers. Charlie would have been humbled by your wonderful praise.

Warmly,
Jackie and Family

CHARLES DUANE WILSON (March 16, 1945 – August 20, 2025) Charles Duane Wilson began his 80 years’ life journey in Buckroe Beach, Hampton, Virginia. His journey ended August 20, 2025 at the family farm (Common Wealth Farm) in Unity, Maine. His parents, Charles Edward Wilson and Florence Irene Will...

07/09/2025

For the second year, Mid-coast Maine is participating in the "Into the Light" campaign of the "Finding Our Voices" organization. Restaurants, merchants, and farmers' market vendors will donate a portion of their proceeds from sales of yellow items in July. The donations provide resources for women survivors of domestic abuse.

To learn more about this very worthy organization, and where you can participate by supporting both local businesses and Into the Light, go to:

https://findingourvoices.net/
Contact person is McLean

Feel free to share this information with anyone who needs to know.

04/08/2025

This is more important than ever! Farmers' market season is starting, so go explore all the wonderful options.

Let's remember where our food truly comes from and choose to support the families and communities right here at home. Their dedication deserves our unwavering support. Choosing American-grown is an investment in our own soil and our neighbors. Let's keep that in mind when we shop and make choices that strengthen our country from the ground up.

04/05/2025

It is with great sadness that we at COMMON WEALTH FARM in Unity have decided not to continue our poultry meat business. We come painfully to this decision. We have met so many people that we treasure and consider to be more than customers or associates, but friends. It has been our pleasure to get to know so many great people and become a small part of your lives and community. We will miss you all. And we hope that we have contributed a small part to your lives or business with the best chicken we knew how to produce. We believe that locally produced food is the best for our health and the economy, and we hope that support of the local food movement continues. We just feel it is time for us to move on.

There are many factors that have led us to this decision. After 14 years, the structure around our licensed facility has deteriorated to the point where major repair or replacement would be required. The future of our entire nation’s small farm economy is uncertain with squabbling over farm bills, foreign purchase of farm land, supply price increases due to tariffs, subsidies to huge farms, and so on. There is constant threat of avian flu. Our birds are pastured and therefore not isolated from wild birds passing through the area. There is the possibility of losing our entire flock after the investment in stock and feed. While we have some of the most loyal and dependable associates that we could hope for, they alone are not enough to sustain the workloads required to maintain our flocks. We have not been successful in hiring and retaining more farm workers.

And we, ourselves, are looking to the future. The younger ones can’t reasonably sustain the physical work indefinitely into the future. And the older of us are well past retirement age and cannot contribute to the physical workload any longer. And so, we have decided it is time for the older of us to finally retire and for the younger ones to hopefully move on to a more personally sustainable business, hopefully in agriculture. We will continue to sell our eggs at Belfast Co-op.

As with all current business these days, many of our supplies come from off-shore, the costs of which will undoubtedly rise with the imminent trade wars. As a small business, we cannot absorb these costs and would no doubt have to pass along these increases to you, our customers. We learned early on that we could not compete with the huge subsidized farms on a low-cost basis. So we decided to offer our customers the best quality poultry, grown with organic practices, that we could produce at something below organic prices. We fear that the required price increases required by the trade wars will make our product less affordable to many of those we wish to serve.

We are forever grateful for your past support, and we look forward to seeing you around town!

Warmly,

Charlie and Jackie Wilson, Owners
Tim Wilson, Farm Manager

02/15/2025

Mother Nature has foiled us again! The Bangor Farmers Market has been canceled this week, 2/16, due to a messy storm 🌨 coming our way. Meanwhile, we've been working hard to produce a batch of our popular chicken pot pies 🥧 that we'll bring to the next market on March 2. And if you need our free-range, non-GMO eggs, you can find them at Belfast Community Co-op.

Stay safe and well!

01/03/2025

Happy New Year!
Is your supply of pastured, organically-fed chicken getting dangerously low? You can find certain cuts at Good Tern Co-op in Rockland or travel a bit north to Bangor Farmers Market every first and third Sundays at the Sea Dog Restaurant in Bangor, 11-1, where Tim and Beth will have a nice array of choice cuts and non-GMO, free-range eggs.

12/21/2024

How are you using eggs this week? Baking? Specialty dishes and appetizers for holiday guests? You can find our very fresh, non-GMO, free range chicken eggs at Belfast Community Co-op now and throughout the winter months. Shop local and fresh. Enjoy your holidays!

12/15/2024

The last chicken on the field and of the season
is now beautifully packaged and headed to a good home! You can find our pasture-raised, organically-fed meat chicken and non-GMO, free-range eggs at Bangor Farmers Market today until 1:00 at the Sea Dog Restaurant in Bangor.
While winter sets in, and we settle into a more relaxed life-style, we want to express our warmest wishes for a wonderful holiday season. We deeply appreciate your support over the past 14 years and look forward to seeing you at the next market on January 5.

11/24/2024

Welcome to Common Wealth Farm - where you'll find high quality free-range, non-GMO chicken eggs, pastured, organically-fed chicken cuts and turkey, all raised without antibiotics, insecticides, or animal by-products. Processed and packaged in our state-inspected facility.

11/24/2024

Tim & Beth are waiting for you at Bangor Farmers Market today from 11-1:30 with loads of non-GMO, free-range eggs, and all kinds of organically-fed chicken cuts and turkey breasts and leg quarters. Come join them at the market's last outdoor session. Remember to find us at Sea Dog Restaurant for the winter starting next Sunday, Dec. 1, from 11-1, every first and third Sunday.