Community Supported Agriculture allows residents to receive regular allotments of a farm’s output for the season, giving them access to fresh fruit, vegetables and other items, while providing the farm with an early and certain source of revenue.
Here are the farms across Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties that offer CSAs:
Levesque’s Organic Farm, 57 State Route 219, Leeds
Levesque’s Organic Farm was started in 1993 by Paul and Suzanne Levesque with a few small fields in their own backyard. As time went on, they were opening more field space and growing more crops. In 1997, Paul built a roadside farm stand to help sell crops, and it remains to this day. Over the past two decades, Paul and Sue have been working on the farm with their two sons, Joshua and Peter.
The farm offers a wide variety of crops, including green beans, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower and other vegetables.
www.levesquesorganicfarm.com, [email protected], 207-524-5535
Little Ridge Farm, 103 Gould Road, Lisbon Falls
Little Ridge Farm was started by Keena Tracy in 2007 and is active in giving to the communities around her. Tracy moved to Maine in 2003, but has been farming since 1999, calling it her “happy place.”
Little Ridge Farm offers a diverse variety of vegetables, including cucumbers, carrots, radishes, winter squash and zucchini, to name a few. They also offer raspberries and strawberries. People who join their CSA program, they offer beef, pork and turkey shares.
Willow Pond Farm, 395 Middle Road, Sabattus
Just up the road from Lewiston is Willow Pond Farm in Sabattus with 35 acres of farmland and a lot of history. The farm was the first Community Supported Agriculture program in Maine in 1989, with owner Jill Agnew adopting a similar model that was used at the time. It also has trees on its orchard that date back nearly a century.
Willow Pond Farm offers many vegetables, including onions, boc choy, potatoes, spinach, turnips and more. They also grow fruits including blueberries, pumpkins and raspberries.
willowpf.csaware.com/store/, [email protected], 207-375-6662
New Spoke Farm, 92 Stearns Hill Road, West Paris
New Spoke Farm was started by Janelle Plummer and Ross Spencer in the spring of 2022 on a quarter-acre of land in Gray. The two saw much success and were able to move their operations to West Paris in 2023 on 4 acres. The two met in southern Maine in 2012 when Janelle was apprenticing on her first farm and Ross was attending a local boat building school. The two manage the farm with Warmth and Miura, their two dogs.
New Spoke Farm grows vegetables, including arugula, chives, edamame, jalapenos, leeks, okra and a list a foot long. They also grow fruits such as blueberries, lemons, melons and pumpkins.
newspokefarm.com, [email protected], 617-314-0781
A Wrinkle in Thyme Farm, 106 Black Mountain Road, Sumner
Located in Sumner, A Wrinkle in Thyme Farm became the first farm in Maine to offer a fiber CSA program when its fiber building opening in 2010. It features a farm store, dye kitchen and equipment for washing, picking and brushing wool.
The farm was started in 1995 after owners Mary Ann and Marty Haxton moved to Maine from Illinois, settling in their 1850s farmhouse with 32 acres of fields and an orchard.
Their fiber CSA program allows members to choose the type of share they want, including a spinner’s share, felter’s share, yarn share, and weaver’s share. A spinner’s share includes raw or washed fleeces, while a felter’s share featuring hand-dyed or natural unspun wool. A yarn share allows members to get 100% wool yarn that is either natural or hand-dyed, and a weaver’s share includes one to two-pounds of ivory or natural colored yarn.
a-wrinkle-in-thyme-farm.myshopify.com, 207-212-4058, [email protected]
No View Farm, Inn & Bakery, 855 South Rumford Road, Rumford
No View Farm, Inn & Bakery in Rumford is owned and operated by Annette Cochran, who built the farm’s foundation by hand with her father in 1983 and continued working on it over the years.
Besides working in the gardens, Cochran is a baker, horticulturalist and soapmaker who has a few herbal certifications. The farm has lots to offer, from shampoos to a gift shop to a baby product line known as Boo Bear Buns. The farm also offers campsites, with two in Rumford and four in Carthage along the Webb River.
No View Farm, Inn & Bakery offers a wide variety of products with its CSA program, including fresh fruits and vegetables, breads and baked goods, local crafts, pickles and jellies.
no-view-farm-inn-bakery.square.site, 207-507-1510, [email protected]
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