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Greetings from Thirty Acre Farm! We are a small family farm in Whitefield, Maine, started in the fall of 2004 by Jane and Simon Frost. When we purchased the farm, it had not been worked for over forty years. The old pastures had turned into mixed hardwood forest. As we clear the land we have uncovered long forgotten stone walls that reveal the shape of the fields that used to be. In an effort to clear the land, we purchased three piglets, two of which became the base of our breeding herd. Those two pigs have multiplied into over fifty pigs on the ground at any time! This colony of pigs has aided us in clearing back eight acres of young hardwood forest and has allowed us to prepare two acres of cultivated land for the 2008 growing season.
Our move to Whitefield from Waldoboro included a flock of thirty laying hens that grew to 150 birds in 2006, when we started selling at the Portland farmers market, and 250 birds in 2007 as we added more markets. We also brought our crop of organic cabbage with us from Waldoboro that became the ingredients for our first batches of lacto-fermented sauerkraut. In 2006 we bought cabbage from local Maine organic farmers and produced nearly five times as much kraut as the year before; this year we have doubled production again! We now make ruby kraut, two types of green cabbage krauts, spiced carrots, gingered carrots, Kim chi, sour dill pickles, and other small experimental batches of cultured veggies. Our family has grown along with the farm with the birth of our son, Otis, in 2007. |
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