496 Davis Road
Durham, Maine 04222
Phone: 207-353-5263
New Leaf Farm was established in 1982 with the purpose of growing and marketing vegetables, herbs and fruit organically while developing and teaching a sustainable agricultural system. The farm lies on 110 acres of land (60 wooded and 50 cleared) in the Androscoggin River Valley in the town of Durham. We have been certified organic by the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association since 1985.
Dave, the farm manager, graduated from Antioch College with a B.A. in Biological Agriculture and worked for eight seasons on different farms before moving to Maine. Chris, a graduate of Western Washington State University with a B.S. in Environmental Education, has worked on the farm since 1989, and is involved primarily with the business and marketing of our products.
We have been marketing organic produce since 1983 and are currently tilling 10 acres. Of those ten acres, four are in vegetables and herb production, and six are in soil building rotations. The remaining cleared land is in hay. The farm markets 30 varieties of vegetables and eighteen culinary herbs directly to specialty restaurants and organic food stores in Portland, Yarmouth, and Freeport, delivering two days a week.
The season begins in the solar greenhouse, with the seeding and nurturing of our crops. Approximately 50,000 seedlings are started and grown each year, lettuce and broccoli predominately. Harvests begins in May, becoming intense in August and September, with the largest variety of crops, and continues into November with squash and other storage crops.
