Norridgewock, Maine
Maine’s oblong pie pumpkin, certified organic and field grown.
Picked on October 17, the day before the first frost, and curing since. Each one is weighed and numbered, $5 to $14 depending on size, for pickup in Norridgewock.
Choose a pumpkin for local pickupThe 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. (Update: by harvest on October 17 it had reached twenty-three inches.) We started with a …
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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