Notes from the fields and woods of Wilder Farm.
The 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 …
Read more →We’ve been meaning to start writing things down for a while now. Not instructions or advice — just honest notes from a small farm in Maine. This is where we’ll share what’s happening in the fields: what’s growing, what surprised us, what failed, and what we’re trying …
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