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 last week of May was filled with the more-or-less standard cocktail of mistakes, excitement, progress, and fears. Maybe today I'll stick with some basic strategies from way back in Conflict Resolution class, which could be accurately subtitled "How to Critique...
May 25, 2013
I keep looking over at the stove to see why there's a pot boiling, and it turns out to be, in fact, the rain driving against the kitchen windows. This is new in that for most of the last week we have not had wind with our rain--it's old in that we have had LOTS AND...
Working in high gear
In the small, everyday conversations of life at this time of year, lots of people ask each other, "How's your spring going?" and this year more so than ever before I find myself honestly responding with "Really busy. And really good." This is our third year growing...
Grafting tutorial and more
Someday, when I create a farm calendar, the months will be: January, February, March, Apple, May, etc...and happily, as of today, bench grafting of apples (and some minor amounts of other fruit trees) is complete. Below you will find Elsie's photo tutorial of how to...