Maine farms will offer

activities such as petting zoos, nature trails and

hayrides on Sunday, July 27. Eighty-six farms will participate in the annual Open Farm Day.

Visiting hours are generally from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., though some farms may extend their hours for special events.

Offerings include farm-raised products, animals and on-site activities such as barn and field tours, milking, hayrides, petting zoos, nature trails, beautiful scenery, food samples, refreshments and live music.

For a complete schedule and list of

participating farms, see Page B5.

Androscoggin County

Bell Farms Inc.

1552 Riverside Drive, Auburn

100 acres of potatoes and 330 acres of corn. Tours of the operation will be given, including the storage facility on Riverside Drive. There is also a retail store at the site of the storage facility.

Hours: 10-3

Route 136, 4 miles south of South Bridge

Caldwell Farms

313 North Parish Road, Turner

Organic dairy farm with 150 milkers and 140 head of organic and natural beef herd. Samples of the beef and organic milk will be served. Farmers’ market will be open. Horses in the pasture and flower gardens to stroll.

Hours: 10-3

From Route 4, take Route 117 north through Turner Center. The farm is 1 1/2 miles on the right. Sign at foot of hill and barn on top of hill.

Highland Orchard

473 Federal Road, Livermore

60-acre orchard with 40 acres of eight varieties of apples, 20 acres of woods and a cedar bog. Will show how apples are grown and how leaves and soil can tell you about the apple’s health. Free drinks and snacks will be served.

Hours: 11-5

From Route 495, Maine Turnpike, take Exit 12. Go north on Route 4 into Livermore. Farm is on left at top of Berry Hill right after Berry Hill Fuel on the left side of the road.

Jillson’s

Jordan Bridge Road, Sabattus

Vegetables and small fruits, small sawmill, sugar bush and sugarhouse, greenhouses with perennials and cut flowers. Chicken barbecue, ice cream, hay rides, nature trails and barn and sugarhouse tours. Visit animals and taste maple syrup and honey.

Hours: 9-4

Take Route 126 east from Lewiston. About 5-6 miles at Cumberland Farm intersection, take a right and watch for signs. Take Route 9 from Brunswick or Lisbon and watch for signs.

Nezinscot Farm

Route 117, Turner

Sustainable and diverse organic farm where beef, veal, lamb, pork, chicken and free-range turkeys are raised. Visit animals, sample cheeses and meats, tour gardens, have lunch at the farm or tea in the new teahouse. Felting and spinning demonstrations and garlic harvesting and tasting throughout the day.

Hours: 9-5

From Route 4 take Route 117 north, 1 mile on left and right. White barn with red face. Farm sign on the left. Midway between Turner Center and Turner Village.

Norlands Living History Center

290 Norlands Road, Livermore

Maine’s only year-round working history farm, with oxen, horses, cows, sheep, pigs and poultry, crops and seasonal activities. The costumed staff will tell stories and give wagon rides. The farm tour does not include the other buildings on the site. There will be wagon rides (for a small fee) and lemonade and cookies in the farmer’s cottage. Handicapped accessible.

Hours: 10-3

From Auburn, take Route 4 north, turn right onto Route 108, look for the Norlands sign, go left on Norlands Road. From Augusta (one half-hour), take Route 202 west to Winthrop, then take Route 133 north to Wayne, turn left on Route 219 and right on Route 108, drive 3 miles to Norlands Road and turn right.

Sunnyside Gardens

500 North Parish Road, Turner

Perennial nursery offers over 900 varieties of perennials and complementary shrubs for sale. Many are displayed in the English-style border gardens on the grounds of this 1820 farmhouse. A tour of the gardens will be at 11 a.m. Meet in front of the house. The owner will be on hand all day to answer questions about specific plants. Cookies and iced tea will be served.

Hours: 10-5

From Route 4, take Route 117 through Turner Center, continue on Route 117 for 2.3 miles. Farm on left. Or follow MDOT signs from Route 4.

Franklin County

Harnden’s Harvest Hutch

Old Route 2, East Wilton

Numerous varieties of apples, including some popular heirlooms. Highbush blueberries, herbs, flowers and mixed vegetables. Walking tours of the orchards and demonstration gardens. Refreshments will be served. Coloring contest for children and free recipes available.

Hours: 10-3

From Farmington on routes 2 & 4. take first right after the Agway Store. Coming from Wilton on routes 2 & 4, take first left after NAPA Auto Parts store. Go about 1 1/2 miles, turn right onto McLaughlin Road. Turn into driveway on left.

Kingfield Flower Farm

56 Main Street (Route 27), Kingfield

A 35-acre farm that grows perennials, cut flowers and herbs. Plants are grown both in the fields and unheated hoop houses. Tours of the gardens and hoop houses.

Hours: 10-3

Located on Route 27, 1 mile south of Kingfield. There is a large red barn and a sign.

Shady Lane Farm

108 Brahmer Road, New Vineyard

Dairy milking facility with 45 cows and 80 head of young stock. Also raise horn Dorset sheep and Yorkshire hogs and produce maple syrup. Tour dairy barn and hog barn, see poultry and petting zoo known as Lane’s Barnyard Friends. Wagon rides with Belgian horses and demonstrations of boiling maple syrup.

Hours: 10-3

From Route 27 in New Vineyard, take Route 234 toward North Anson. Go about 2.5 miles and take first right (dirt road). The farm is in about 1/2 mile. From North Anson take Route 234 toward New Vineyard about 8 or 9 miles (it will be the fifth left-hand turn). Watch for the signs.

Tullibardine Farm LLP

Starks Road, New Sharon :

Small diversified family farm with 22 acres of improved pasture and hayfields, 1 acre of mixed vegetables and a 40-acre woodlot. Home to Norwegian Fjord horses and Chinook sled dogs. Educational displays on modern pasture management practices and working small acreage farms with draft animals.

Hours: 10-4.

From Route 2 in New Sharon, go north on Route 134 (Starks Road) 4 miles. Farm is on the left.

Whitehill Farm

357 McCrillis Corner Road, East Wilton

Sixty raised beds, crops grown under cover and gardens planted to vegetables, herbs and everlasting flowers. Garden tours all day, composting, food de-hydrating, root cellaring, seed saving and season extension handouts available. Pet donkeys, sun tea and lemonade available all day.

Hours: 10-4

From Route 2 (at Franklin Memorial Hospital), 1 1/2 miles south on Route 133 to first four-corners. Left on McCrillis Corner Road and up hill 1/2 mile. House is on the right across from white farmhouse.

Kennebec County

Friend’s Folly Farm

319 Morris Hill Road, Monmouth

White and colored Angora goats raised for fiber, breeding stock and pelts. Mill processes other farmers’ fiber hand spinners and felters and yarn for knitters and weavers. Fiber preparation and spinning demonstrations, goat handling and hoof trimming demonstrations. Felt making activities for children.

Hours: 10-3

From Winthrop, take Route 202 south, turn left onto Blue Road, go 1 mile. At stop sign, take left onto Norris Hill Road, 1/4 mile, farm is on the left. From Lewiston, take Route 202 north, turn right onto Blue Road, go 1 mile. At stop sign take left onto Norris Hill Road, 1/4 mile, farm is on the left.

Kelley Farm & Greenhouse

Route 132, Monmouth

A 6-acre family farm that grows 1 acre of produce (mostly pumpkins) and cut flowers. Small petting zoo with sheep, a goat and a pot-bellied pig.

Hours: 8-4

From Route 202 In Monmouth, go 2.5 miles south on Route 132. Farm is on the left.

Snafu Acres

259 Tillson Road, Monmouth

Diversified dairy farm using rotational grazing pasture management. Milk 60 Jersey and Holstein cows and raise calves for future milk cows and as natural grass-fed veal and beef. Tours of calf-raising facility and the pastured poultry area. Visitors will be able to participate in butter making. Handicapped accessible.

Hours: 10-2

From downtown Monmouth, take Route 135 east 2.7 miles. Turn right on the Tillson Road. The farmhouse is one-half mile up the road on the right.

Oxford County

A Wrinkle in Thyme Farm

106 Black Mountain Road, Sumner

30-acre diversified farm, laying hens year-round and Cornish-cross broiler chickens during summer. Sheep, goats, horse and chickens. Farm tours will include discussion of traditional-joinery timber farm barn under construction. Felting demonstrations. Farm store will be open.

Hours: 10-3

From Route 26, go east on Route 219 approximately 7 miles. Turn left at Litchfield General Store. When road turns left, bear left onto Black Mountain Road. Farm is 1 mile on the left.

Apple Acres Farm

Durgintown Road, South Hiram

20 acres of orchards, more than 10 apple varieties. Public can see cider produced on 95 year-old wooden press. Children’s activities include Apple Playland, wagon rides. Farm gift store. Tours and demonstrations of apple tree grafting, variety pruning, and cider syrup production, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Hours: 10-4

From Portland, follow Route 25 west into Cornish. Then follow the Apple Acres Signs.

Carter’s Farm

Route 26, Oxford

Vegetable, farm market, cross country ski center. Balloons and games for kids. They will show how to extend growing season, also how to grow vegetables without pesticides. Refreshments. Hike or bike on trails. Rentals of canoes and kayaks to use on nearby river.

Hours: 9-6 p.m.

Route 26 in Oxford (Welchville) 200 yards south of junction of routes 121 and 26.

Hedgehog Hill Farm

Bonney Road/Hedgehog Hill Road, East Sumner

Organic herb and flower farm. Annual and perennial beds. Shop has products made from their harvests. Greenhouses. A woods walk for people of all ages. A 2 p.m. tour of the garden and a lecture on herbs, or everlastings. See www.HedgehogHillFarm.com.

Hours: 9-5

Take Route 117 to Buckfield. Signs in Buckfield by bridge and church for the farm. Or take Route 219 to East Sumner. Sign for farm in East Sumner, opposite church.

Hill and Gully Llamas

15 Dunn Road, Norway

First llama farm in county. They breed, raise and train llamas for fiber, companion and pack animals. 10 llamas share barn with 3 horses. Lead a pack llama. See full-size teaching llama model “give birth.” Use llama fiber to make a felt ball. Display of fiber to finished product.

Hours: 10-3

Route 118, north out of Norway, past lake, turn right on Greenwood Road. After 1 mile, turn left on Norway Center Road. Go 3 miles to intersection. Turn left on Morse Road. Go 1 mile and turn right on Dunn Road, first drive on right.

Mountain Brook Farm

219 Streaked Mountain Road, South Paris

More than 30 alpacas, which have a fine, luxurious fiber. Alpacas are gentle, curious. Display area of end products and demonstrations of processing alpaca fiber, including carding, spinning, knitting, weaving and children’s crafts.

Hours: 10-4

Take Route 117 to intersection of Lovejoy and Streaked Mountain roads, take Streaked Mountain Road, follow for 1 mile to the gray farm on right.

Pooh Corner Farm

Bog Road, Mason Township

Diversified farm with 10,000-square-foot production greenhouse, with cut flowers, perennials and pumpkins as field crops. Ongoing behind-the-scenes greenhouse tours. Floral design presentation at 2 p.m. Animals to pet. Refreshments available. Handicapped-accessible.

Hours: 9-5

Take Route 2 west from Bethel, to MDOT sign for farm, take a left on Bog Road. Farm is about 2.5 miles down road. Look for greenhouses.



Stoneheart Farm

285 Streaked Mountain Road, South Paris

Farm raises Columbia sheep for breeding stock, wool and meat. Demonstrations of spinning, carding and knitting. Information and handouts on sheep production and management. Refreshments available. Sheep, wool products and yarn will be available for sale.

Hours: 10-4

From Route 4, take Route 117 south and go about 11.3 miles then turn left on Streaked Mountain Road. The farm is 1.3 miles on the right.

Swallow Song Farm

1460 Intervale Road, Bethel

Built in 1776, has always been a farm. Reestablished in 1998 as an organic farm. Has circa 1850 post and beam barn, modern greenhouse and tomato house cold-frame. There will be kite flying. Children can feed chickens and check nests for eggs. Refreshments. Farm store will be open. Handicapped-accessible.

Hours: Noon-5

Take Route 2 west to Rumford Center. Go south on Route 232 over the bridge, turn right on East Bethel Road. Farm is 5 miles on right.

Troika Drafts & The Shoeing Shop

955 Buckfield Road, Hebron

New England’s only full-service draft horse facility. On-site farrier shop, as well as carriage, equipment and harness shops. Displays on shoeing techniques. Tours and information on caring for draft horses. Haying demonstration, weather permitting. Shoeing and harnessing demonstrations, woodlot tour.

Hours: 10-3

From Mechanic Falls, follow Route 124 to East Hebron. Farm is 2 miles past Hebron Pines Campground. From Route 4 in Turner, take Route 117 toward Buckfield. Follow signs to Route 124, farm is 2 miles past Roundabout Farm Perennials.