About Smithereen Farm

Smithereen Farm is a MOFGA certified organic farm located on Cobscook Bay, on Maine’s border with Canada. The 150 acre farm and 60 acre blueberry lands are located end of the Leighton point peninsula, famous for a tidal whitewater phenomena called “Reversing Falls” - a place of majestic natural beauty and critical habitat for migrating birds- it’s well suited for organic farming and wildcrafting on both land and sea. We tend a large collection of heritage fruit trees for hard cider and vinegar. We also manage herb gardens, gather wild ocean seaweeds, make jam from woodland and hedgerow fruit, coastal roses, and collect + air dry meadow and forest herbs for tea, tinctures, cushions, condiment and soup mix… We own and manage a MOFGA certified patch of wild Maine blueberries for U-Pick and jamming, and about ¼ acre of strawberries and cane fruit. We harvest chaga mushrooms in our birch forests, and have begun a small oyster and seaweed farming operation in Schooner cove just out back of the farm. Come visit! (www. smithereenfarm.com) the weather in summer is breezy and cool, autumn brings colors: purple asters, dark red roses, goldenrod waving. Stay in the beautiful tent platforms, use the timber frame kitchen and tipis for family holiday and blueberrying... plus weekend and weeklong workshops and ‘naturalist adventure’ camps, with sailing, clamming, hiking, kayaking, biking and wild food adventures galore. Read their story