MOFGA Journeypersons

MOFGA’s Journeyperson Program provides hands-on support, training, and mentorship for people who are serious about pursuing careers in organic farming in Maine. The program is designed for farmers in their first three to five years to further develop the skills they need to farm independently and successfully.

2025 First-Year Journeypersons

Meet our current first-year MOFGA Journeypersons
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Avalon Acres

Michael Levine

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Feastland Farm

Addison Wagner

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Food for Friends Farms

Lane Callahan and Devin Aspy

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Freyenhagen Farm

Mary Kinney

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Quill's End Farm

Ben Retberg

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Radical Roots Nursery

Sam Olvera and Garrett Sorber

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Shady Maple Farm Products

Abigail Perry

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Stormy Blue Farm

Mari and Will Blanchard

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Whistle Cat Farm

Maddy Torraca Jones

2025 Second-Year Journeypersons

Meet our current second-year MOFGA Journeypersons
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Crowded Hearth Farm

Lily Carlisle-Reske

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Crowfoot Farm

Emma Sanchi

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Dancing Harvest Farm

Daniela Aldrich

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Golden Fleece

Becca Hansen

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Happytown Farm

Angelica Harwood

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Luna Moth Herbs

Zoë Mason

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Moon Beam Farm

Reid Calhoun

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Organic Matter Farm

Evan Horn

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Soulful Soils

Hannah Smalls

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Spring Tide Farmstead

Emma and Trent Quinby

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Tilth & Timber

Troy and Cindy Dickens

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Triple Chick Farm

Anna and Adam Perkins

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Underground Beets

Andrew Fuller and Tessa Fullmer

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Weezy's Farm & Flower

Jenny Salim

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The Wild Child Flower Company

Liz Farrell

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Unity, ME 04988
Physical Address:
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Unity, ME 04988

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Avalon Acres is a spirit-led farmstead started in 2020 and located on a 50-acre property in Hollis. Their commitment is to guide people back to their sense of wonder through connecting them to nature and the healing effect of natural, thriving ecosystems. They sell their organically-certified produce at farmers’ markets in Southern Maine as well as through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program. In addition to their farming operation, they also offer spiritual retreats, workshops, and other gatherings to deepen our relationship to the land.

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Feastland Farm is a no-till, intensive vegetable farm dedicated to growing accessible, high-quality produce on leased land in Scarborough, Maine. Their farming practices are rooted in creativity, reciprocity, and mutual-care. They’ll be using regenerative practices to grow food for a small Vegetable & Print CSA imagined in collaboration with wife Ana Inciardi.

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Food for Friends Farm is a diversified market-garden farm on a mountainside just outside of Bethel. On less than an acre of leased land they provide food and flowers for their community through a CSA, farmers’ market, and local retailers. They grow following organic practices utilizing a low/no-till permanent bed system with a focus on maintaining and increasing soil health.

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Freyenhagen Farm’s maple syrup is crafted using time-honored techniques, gathering sap from locally tapped trees and boiling it over a wood-fired evaporator for a rich, smoky flavor. They partner with landowners, trading finished syrup in exchange for access to their trees, creating a community-driven approach to maple sugaring. Every batch is made with sustainably sourced wood and a commitment to preserving the natural traditions of maple production. The result is a pure, artisanal syrup that captures the essence of the forest and the craftsmanship of generations past. They also provide various naturally grown produce. You can find them at farmers’ markets year-round, except when the sap is running!

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Quill’s End Farm is a diversified small-scale farm in Penobscot, Maine. They raise their animals and grow their plants in a way that allows them to express their natural tendencies while building resilient soil. Along with his parents and sister, Ben produces a range of fresh dairy products, woodland-raised pork, and grass-fed beef. Additionally as the second generation on this land, he is producing vegetables, fruit, fruit trees, pastured poultry, and eggs using draft animal power.

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Radical Roots is a fruit tree and native plant nursery, with a special focus on heirloom and rare varieties. Their plants range from herbaceous perennials to woody shrubs and trees. Plant health, soil health, and genetic diversity are top priorities! Air-pruning containers allow them to keep the root systems strong and also enable them to sell plants locally throughout the growing season. They also sell fresh fruit from their orchard and offer pruning services.

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Shady Maple Farm Products is a family-run vegetable (and aspiring fruit) farm in Starks, Maine. They operate alongside Shady Maple Deer Farm, so their daily routines are always supervised by their four-legged friends. They grow a wide variety of vegetables and offer them for sale at the farm, a farmers’ market, and online market, as well as making donations to local food pantries. They love inspiring people to eat more food locally year-round and love to discuss food preservation ideas with friends, neighbors, customers, and fellow learners.

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Stormy Blue Farm is a flower and highland cattle farm in Dexter, Maine. They grow high-quality dahlia tubers, wholesale potted dahlias, and seasonal cut flowers using eco-friendly practices—like composting from their own cows. Through their floral business, Sunny Farm Flowers, they create romantic, garden-style wedding flowers. They’re also growing their farm with perennial windbreaks, Christmas trees, and a natural pond.

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Whistle Cat Farm is a small market farm located in Cumberland, Maine. Since the spring of 2024 they’ve been cultivating mixed vegetables using organic practices. They run a farm stand and sell produce through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program and to local restaurants.

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Crowded Hearth Farm is a small (but growing!) operation focused on cultivating a diverse array of organically grown produce and flowers, with a dream of soon having the land to support sheep and chickens. Their goal, beyond land stewardship and food production, is to provide a safe and accessible place for community gathering and education.

Crowfoot Farm is a certified organic, no-till farm operating on an eighth of an acre of leased land in Biddeford, Maine. They grow mixed vegetables, herbs and flowers that are available through their CSA and wholesale accounts. They aim to bolster local food accessibility and put nutrient-dense, organic produce on the tables of as many community members as possible.

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Dancing Harvest Farm grows diversified vegetables and culinary herbs on 1 acre of leased land in South Portland, Maine. The farm’s mission is to grow food that nourishes people, respects the environment and contributes to a more equitable and compassionate food system. The farm also strives to cultivate community around its shared harvest and share the joys of seasonal eating with as many people as possible. Dancing Harvest uses reduced-tillage and organic growing practices in order to stay true to its values of ecological health and vitality, and to remain a trustworthy and transparent source of food for its community.

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Golden Fleece is a sheep farm in its first year, spearheaded by lead shepherdess Becca Hansen. At Golden Fleece, Hansen raises multipurpose dairy sheep for their milk, meat and wool. The ewes are rotationally grazed through fields and forests, turning their diverse diet into rich, creamy milk that gets processed into luxurious sheep’s milk yogurt. In the winter months, woolens and sheepskins from the ewes and their lambs will be available, and Hansen is planning to add grass-fed lamb to her offerings next year. Above all, Golden Fleece is about the joy of doing well by animals — Hansen is thrilled to have this opportunity to share the incredible gifts that sheep have to offer.

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Happytown Farm is a certified organic farm specializing in vegetables, flowers, and different meat products throughout the year. These next few years they will be transitioning into a new focus with less tillage and more permanent beds and hedgerows of native trees and bushes. They will continue their goal of providing fresh, organic and local products to their wonderful customers in Hancock County!

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Luna Moth Herbs is a small woman-owned farm growing healing and culinary herbs on shared land in South China, Maine. Regenerative and low-till production, along with diversity and native plant cultivation are some of the practices implemented to care for this hillside and enrich the wider ecosystem. They value community care and healing empowerment and aim to connect people with locally grown plants. They offer fresh and dry herbs in bulk, tea blends, tinctures and alcohol-free extracts. They have a collective vision to keep this beautiful and sacred land in the China Lakes Region of Maine in farm production through collaboration, stewardship and conservation.

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Moon Beam Farm (MBF) grows vegetables, herbs and flowers using low/no-till methods on leased land on Mt. Desert Island. They connect with customers through a CSA and two farmers’ markets. Beginning as a 40-vegetable market garden-style farm, MBF seeks to build relationships, purchase land, and transition to a 10-crop wholesale operation to increase profits and keep prices affordable. They believe honing in on their favorite cash crops will create more room to invest in sustainable practices, perennials and their community.

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Organic Matter Farm is a diversified vegetable farm currently cultivating one-third of an acre. 2024 will be the farm’s first year starting a CSA, hoping to supply Appleton and surrounding towns with the highest quality produce and greens. So excited to be putting down roots and have this incredible opportunity.

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Soulful Soils’ mission is to provide organically grown food while growing a new wholesome and communal approach to home-scale farming. They are a BIPOC woman-owned farm supporting people and families to be more self-sufficient and healthy, no matter their income, religion, politics or race. They are connecting with the community by sharing and gaining knowledge while putting Soul back into our Soil.

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Spring Tide Farmstead is a small-scale family farm focused on farrow-to-finish pigs and homegrown Katahdin sheep as well as ducks and chickens. They are grateful to be members of Blue Hill peninsula and the greater Maine community, and are dedicated to raising healthy, happy animals from birth to produce the best pork, lamb and eggs for their greater community. Through management practices, they are working on building silvopastures, which enhance the land and health of their animals.

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Tilth & Timber is a diversified market garden farm with a focus on producing the best food possible for their community. They utilize regenerative soil practices and are pesticide- and herbicide-free. They also raise pastured poultry with organic Maine-grown grains. They have a vegetable and egg CSA program and onsite farmstand.

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Triple Chick Farm is a vegetable and flower farm in Town Hill, Maine, on Mount Desert Island. The farm is owned by the Falls/Rogers family with a succession plan to transfer ownership to farm managers Anna and Adam Perkins. Going into their third season at Triple Chick Farm and after over a decade as farmworkers on other farms, the Perkins are managing and adapting the farm to be resilient and diversified as a business and growing space. They do so alongside a small team and their two children.

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Andrew Fuller and Tessa Fullmer started their farm in Alna, Maine, in 2022. They provide a variety of vegetables seasonally and rabbit meat year-round through CSAs and farmers’ markets. They aspire to be part of a strong farming community who inspire customers to support local businesses.

Jenny Salim is a small-scale, cut flower farmer located in Bangor, Maine, offering organically grown fresh flowers to the community. Flowers are offered at local farmers’ markets, through an annual CSA program, and through local businesses. Jenny Salim is passionate about sustainable growing practices, dried flower arranging, reducing waste through composting, and local community.

Visit Weezy’s Farm and Flower’s website, Facebook or Instagram.

The Wild Child Flower Company is situated on Mount Desert Island, providing blooms to the retail and wholesale markets. Their goal is to bolster the wholesale flower market to provide quality cut stems for Maine-based florists and designers. They are focused on growing blooms through sustainable practices with limited environmental impacts. They are all about soil health and the soil microbiome, so that their plants are provided the greatest opportunity to thrive. 

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