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 • About Our Farm
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 • Community Supported
    Agriculture Plan (CSA)
 •
Directions to our Farm
 • From a Run Out Hayfield to
    a Prosperous Organic Farm
    in Ten Easy Years

 • Get Real. Get Organic!
 • History of Our Farm
 • Pictures of the Farm
 • Where We Buy
 • Where We Sell
 • Our Yearly Work Schedule
 • Just Pretty
 • Subscribe to our e-newsletter.
 • Newsletter Archive.
 • What We Will & Won't Ship

OUR PEOPLE
 • Working Here
 • Our Apprentices
 • Our Farm Workers
 • Pictures of Us at Market

WHAT WE GROW
 • Fresh Vegetables
 • Fresh Fruit
 • Fresh Herbs
 • Perennials
 • Aloe - a magical plant
 • Our Bird Houses
 • Lupines
 • Rosemary Plants
 • Lovage, Tansy & Yarrow
 • Our Product Brochures
 • Dried Vegetables
 • Dried Culinary Herbs
MAPLE
 • Maple Syrup
 • Maple Syrup, p.2
 • Sugarin' Is Like Ice Fishin'
 • Our New Sugarhouse
TOMATOES
 • Tomato Seedlings
 • Tomato Seeds We Offer
 • Tomato Seed Production
 • Paste Tomatoes
GARLIC
 • About Garlic
 • Garlic for Sale
 • Garlic Year Round
 • Mulching Garlic
 • Growing Rounds from Bulbils
 • Whole Bulbil Cluster Method
 • Planting Garlic

MULCHING
 • Using Mulches
 • Combatting Quackgrass
    with Mulch

 • We Want Your Leaves!
 • In Praise of Chips

FOOD & FARMING INFO
 • Buying in Bulk for
    Storage, Canning & Freezing

 • Winter Storage Tips
 • How to Freeze Our Veggies
 • Building Techniques
 • Our Outbuildings
 • Evolution of the Farm Table
 • The Story of Our Cooler
 • Prepping Veggies for Market
 • Crop Rotations
 • Drip Irrigation
 • Low Pressure Water
 • Planting with Spreadsheets
 • Greenhouse Vegetable
    Production

 • Let-tuce Begin
 • Recipe Favorites
 • Our "Remay Roller"
 • Gardening Class Notes
 • Your Most Expensive Crop

OPINIONS & IDEAS
 • Being Green
 • Digging Potatoes by Hand
 • Farmers' Markets in 2012
 • History of Pittsfield
 • Hybrids or Open Pollinated?
 • Making Websites
 • Open Source Software

FARM TRANSITION…
    Our Retirement Plan
 • How Should a Farmer Retire?
 • Impediments to the want-to-be     farmer
 • Reducing the Value
    of the Land

 • Who Will Farm Here When
    We're Gone?

 • Apprentice Terms and Stages
 • From Apprentices to Partners
 • Transferring Farm Ownership





…and now for something completely different…

At dawn
Canoe bow waves are quickly lost
    on the shoreside
But go on out of sight
    on the lake side.

-1986


The constant swish-swish of skis
    On a day long ski.
The constant swish-swish of wiper blades
    On a day long drive.

-1990


My dog, trotting barefoot
Steps on a garden slug
And thinks
Nothing of it.

-1999


Word spreads quickly
as I approach the pond.
All becomes quiet.

-1997


Hidden in the vines
a large warted cucumber
jumps out of reach.
A toad!

-1997


Delicate puffs
of marshmallow snow
carefully perched
on a branch,
await the trigger of my hat
to melt their way down my back.

-2010
Deep in the tomato jungle
Fruits of yellow, purple and red
Tell of their readiness
To go to market.

-2010
Sugarin' Chores
Snowflakes hurry through my flashlight beam,
As my boots knead new snow with spring mud,
On my nightly Hajj to keep the boil alive,
For as long as possible until the dawn,
To match the power of the flowing sap,
With my meager evaporator and will.
The prize at the finish line are jars of syrup
And Spring.

-2013

Directions to Snakeroot Organic Farm
GPS: 44°45'49"N; 69°27'00"W
or N44.7665, W-69.4498
will bring you to the end of our driveway.


Snakeroot Organic Farm, 27 Organic Farm Road (off the Snakeroot Road), Pittsfield ME 04967. Tom may be contacted at tom@snakeroot.net or 207-416-5417. Lois may be contacted at lois@snakeroot.net or 207-416-5418.

We are 3 miles from Exit 150 onI-95, just under an hour north of Augusta, or 35 miles south of Bangor.

From Exit 150, I-95 Northbound: At the end of the ramp, take a left, go under the bridge. Take your second left, in about three miles. This is the Snakeroot Road, and we are 1/2 mile on the right. Our driveway is called Organic Farm Road. You can see our driveway across from a green mail box "27 Organic Farm Rd.".

From Exit 150, I-95 Southbound: At the end of the ramp, take a right. Go three and a half miles to the Snakeroot Road on the left. We are 1/2 mile down on the right. Our driveway—called Organic Farm Road—is opposite the first house on the left. You can see our sign about 100 feet down our driveway.

From Route 2, from Skowhegan: You cross the town line into Pittsfield at a roadside lake. You can get to us by the second or third right. (The first right, the Wilson Road, is a dead end.) For the shortest route take the Higgins Road, the second right, about a mile from the town line. In about a mile and a half, the Snakeroot Road is a right in about 1/2 mile. We are 1/2 mile on the right. All you can see is our driveway across from green mail box "27 Organic Farm Rd.". Or, the third right after crossing the town line into Pittsfield is the Phillips Corner Road. Take that to a crossroad, where you take a right. Snakeroot Road is the next left, in about a mile. Our driveway is 1/2 mile down on the right, and is called Organic Farm Road. Our driveway is opposite the first house on the left. You can see our sign about 100 feet down our driveway.

From Route 100 from the south: From the Waterville - Fairfield area, take Rt 100 north to Burnham Junction (where you cross two sets of railroad track within a few hundred feet). Snakeroot Road is on the left approximately 3 miles from Burnham Junction. Follow Snakeroot Road about 4 miles until you pass the Webb Road on the right. Now start looking for our dirt driveway—called Organic Farm Road—on left in about a half mile, opposite a white farmhouse on right. See our sign about 100 feet down driveway. If you miss it, you'll get to the end of the Snakeroot Road in 1/2 mile. Turn around and try again.

From Unity: Take the Prairie Road (first right after the bridge on School St - Rt 139) heading out of Unity toward Waterville. At the second four corners, there will be a pair of flashing stop lights. Take a left here and continue to Burnham Junction at Route 100. Take a right onto Route 100. Snakeroot Road is on the left approximately 3 miles from Burnham Junction. (If you pass a hydro dam on your right, you've just missed it!) Follow Snakeroot Road about 4 miles. Look for our dirt driveway—called Organic Farm Road—on left opposite a white farmhouse on right. See our sign about 100 feet down driveway. If you miss it, you'll get to the end of the Snakeroot Road in 1/2 mile. Turn around and try again.




27 Organic Farm Road, Pittsfield Maine 04967
http://www.snakeroot.net/farm
owned and operated by
Tom Roberts & Lois Labbe
Tom: Tom@snakeroot.net (cell) 207-416-5417
or
Lois: Lois@snakeroot.net (cell) 207-416-5418

Gardening for the public since 1995.



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