Welcome To North Branch Farm
We are a family-owned and -run, mixed tractor-, hand- and horse-powered, MOFGA-certified organic farm located on 330 acres of fields and woodland in Monroe, Maine. Currently we specialize in producing grass-fed beef, u-pick highbush blueberries, seed garlic, apples, pears, and potted and bare-root fruit trees.
Farm Blog
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The view from the shop--finally the barn roof is fully roofguarded!This is my lovely sister Mary Kate, making friends with Riley, who is the photographer of the following shots. She is being quite brave, making the trip all the way to Maine in the dead of December,...
This little critter was spotted dragging compost out of its bucket and down a hole under our kitchen sink. S/he may have eaten our rug as well, or might have eaten the previous inhabitants and taken over. We hope the latter.Dad named it Lambbone. It was dragging a...
Ralph’s Room
I have extracted from "Draft"--the purgatory of blog entries--these photos Chris took of our current house before we moved in. They are some of the only documentation of the state of the house before we got our hands on it, but they are pretty representative.This is...
Opaque Windows, See-Through Floor
Elsie, hero of the scrub brush, paint brush, pastry brush--and many other brushes, I'm sure--working her magic 3 weeks ago on the house.Another of my heroes in life, Todd SQ, cinderellaing the storm windows.I wasn't there at the time, but here we see Gib competing in...