Norridgewock, Maine
Maine’s oblong pie pumpkin, picked green and ripened on the porch.
Grown here a few miles from the old Norridgewock fields, where pumpkins were in the ground five hundred years ago. We have been saving seed from the biggest fruits since 2023; this one measured twenty inches on the vine. The smaller ones go on the harvest list in October.
Tell me when they’re readyThe pumpkin in the photo is a Long Pie, the oblong pie pumpkin that Maine farms once grew in quantity. It was still on the vine this morning, twenty inches along the tape, its ground side just turning orange. We started with a packet of seed from Fedco in 2023 and have saved seed from the biggest …
Read more →The old sugar maples that line the drive to Wilder Farm have been here longer than the house. They were planted by the settlers who built this farm, but the trees they replaced had fed people on this land for thousands of years.
Read more →The 2025 growing season is drawing to a close. The potatoes are dug, the beans are threshed, and the last of the shiitake are coming off the logs. It was a good year. The Adirondack Blues yielded well despite a dry July, and the Jacob’s Cattle beans — our first serious dry bean crop — exceeded …
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