events
Music in the yard
Second Saturdays of the month, 5-7:30pm
Local musicians come out to the farm to play us some tunes. This will include a range of music genres and feature new artists as well as some who have been out to the farm throughout the seasons.
We’ll be serving Peak’s Organic brews, Whaleback cider, and rotating wines. Snacks for sale in our farm store.
Bring a blanket and lawn chairs to sit on in the lawn.
Sliding scale cover charge of $5-$15.
Jam Sessions with Sugar Hill
Third Fridays of the month, 4-6pm
Sugar Hill duo, local musicians Melissa and Kevin, play Friday evenings in the farm yard and open the time to include a jam session with other musicians.
This is a free event welcome to musicians of all experience levels.
no-Till workshops
June 8, and October 19-20
Come dive into our no-till practices, systems, and philosophies! These in-depth farm tours provide a wealth of practical information, and might just change the way you think about caring for soil, producing food, employing people, running a business, or relating to the land.
Refreshments and lunch from the farm provided. Sliding scale pricing is available. Click on the event listings below to sign up.
Frith No-Till Immersion
Come dive into the practices, systems, and philosophies we employ at Frith Farm: holistic visioning, soil reverence, no-till methods, permanent raised beds, intensive crop rotation, cover cropping, mulching, tarping, perennial integration, alternative labor models, community building, and more! This full-day farm tour is geared toward farmers, though experienced home gardeners will also get a lot out of it. While it will send you off with a breadth of practical information and resources, it is more than a list of how-to strategies - it might just change the way you relate to soil, food, and ecological communities! Refreshments and lunch from the farm provided. Cost is $200. Sliding scale pricing is available for those who need it. Stick around after the immersion for some live music and local beer and cider!
Music in the yard with yellow sun wreckers
Yellow Sun Wreckers is an Americana roots music band with a mix of classic and contemporary country, modern folk, rock, blues, ragtime, bluegrass, rhythm, and soul.
We’ll be serving Peak’s Organic brews, Whaleback cider, and rotating wines. Snacks for sale in our farm store.
Bring a blanket and lawn chairs to sit on in the lawn.
Sliding scale cover charge of $5-$15.
Jam Session with Sugar Hill Duo
Sugar Hill duo, local musicians Melissa and Kevin, play Friday evenings in the farm yard and open the time to include a jam session with other musicians.
This is a free event welcome to musicians of all experience levels.
Music in the yard with Tana and Andrew Forsthoefel followed by Sigrid sibley
Tana and Andrew Forsthoefel
Tana can be found Monday through Thursday working as a group therapist at a clinic for people in substance use recovery. On Friday, she switches gears and writes stories and songs about her own experiences and feelings. She is currently working on her first album. She didn't believe in soulmates until she heard the voice of hers, who she married last year. You can find her writing and get updates about music at tanaforsthoefel.substack.com. Andrew is an interfaith chaplain, the author of the memoir "Walking to Listen," and a restorative practices specialist for the public schools of Cumberland County. He used to be all about solitude, till he met Tana, and now wonders how he did it back then. Andrew writes twice monthly at littlecourtyard.substack.com on radical masculinity and rogue spirituality. Praise be to the teachers, he'd like to say. To the Earth. The ancestors and the little (big) ones to come.
Sigrid Sibley
An emerging singer-songwriter in New England and a native of Poland Spring, Maine. She began songwriting at age 14, with a focus on lyric writing. Her music draws on common folk themes, as well as her love for nature, agriculture, and simple living. Sigrid has musical roots in bluegrass, folk, and traditional American music, and she has continued to explore acoustic music genres. She performs as a solo musician and with several bands in Maine.
We’ll be serving Peak’s Organic brews, Whaleback cider, and rotating wines. Snacks for sale in our farm store.
Bring a blanket and lawn chairs to sit on in the lawn.
Sliding scale cover charge of $5-$15.
Jam Session with Sugar Hill Duo
Sugar Hill duo, local musicians Melissa and Kevin, play Friday evenings in the farm yard and open the time to include a jam session with other musicians.
This is a free event welcome to musicians of all experience levels.
Music in the Yard with The Zoot Jumpers
The Zoot Jumpers are a Maine-based band that plays hot jump blues and cool swing. The band features Bruce Couillard on saxophones, Michelle Boggs on trumpet, Bess Jacques on piano, Tom Jacques on bass and harmonica, and Per Hanson on drums and harmonica. Everybody sings!
We’ll be serving Peak’s Organic brews, Whaleback cider, and rotating wines. Snacks for sale in our farm store.
Bring a blanket and lawn chairs to sit on in the lawn.
Sliding scale cover charge of $5-$15.
Jam Session with Sugar Hill Duo
Sugar Hill duo, local musicians Melissa and Kevin, play Friday evenings in the farm yard and open the time to include a jam session with other musicians.
This is a free event welcome to musicians of all experience levels.
Music in the Yard with The Earthtones
The Earthtones are a 3 piece acoustic string band with vocal harmonies & tight instrumental interplay.
We’ll be serving Peak’s Organic brews, Whaleback cider, and rotating wines. Snacks for sale in our farm store.
Bring a blanket and lawn chairs to sit on in the lawn.
Sliding scale cover charge of $5-$15.
Jam Session with Sugar Hill Duo
Sugar Hill duo, local musicians Melissa and Kevin, play Friday evenings in the farm yard and open the time to include a jam session with other musicians.
This is a free event welcome to musicians of all experience levels.
Music in the Yard with Sugar Hill Stringband
Sugar Hill Stringband is a local band playing old-time, Celtic, bluegrass, and early country music.
We’ll be serving Peak’s Organic brews, Whaleback cider, and rotating wines. Snacks for sale in our farm store.
Bring a blanket and lawn chairs to sit on in the lawn.
Sliding scale cover charge of $5-$15.
Advanced No-Till Workshop at Frith Farm and Stonecipher Farm
Advanced No-Till Weekend Intensive - October 19-20, 9am - 4:30pm
This advanced workshop is geared toward experienced farmers who have either started their no-till journey or are seriously considering transitioning their farms. Knowledge of soil science and commercial vegetable production will be assumed. Come get into the nuts and bolts of different bed formation methods, timing and durations of tarping/solarizing, pushing the limits of cover crops, undersowing and interplanting strategies, irrigation specs, mulch types and uses, maintaining field edges, nutrient management, perennial species to integrate in crop fields, labor considerations, and more. We expect a lot of farming knowledge to be present at this workshop. Snacks and lunch provided both days, and primitive camping is available at either farm.
Day 1: "Starting and Maintaining a No-Till Farm" will be at Frith Farm to learn the startup methods and established systems behind the success of a 14-year-old no-till vegetable farm grossing $100k per acre.
Day 2: "Transitioning a Tractor Farm to No-Till" will be at Stonecipher Farm (a 50-minute drive from Frith) to learn how an established 12-acre tractor farm transitioned to 4 acres of intensive no-till production - and increased yields, profits, and quality of life in the process.
October 19th workshop will be at Frith Farm, 61 Ash Swamp Rd, Scarborough, Maine
October 20th workshop will be at Stonecipher Farm, 1186 River Rd, Bowdoinham, Maine
Refreshments and lunch from the farm will be provided both days.
Cost is $350 for the full weekend intensive, or $200 for a single day. Sliding scale pricing is available for those who need it.
Stonecipher Farm in Bowdoinham, Maine