Peace & Plenty Farm - Always Organic Wild Maine Blueberries

Micro-Nutrient Superfoods? Organic Wild Maine Blueberries

lloyd — Mon, 07 May 2012 15:13:45 +0000

Now there is convincing evidence that organic fruits and vegetables contain greater amounts

of micronutrients that can have a direct impact on our health.

http://mofgacertification.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/organicsproutspring2012_web1.pdf

This contains an interesting article by Joan Cheetham: Organic Fruits & Vegetables: Micro-Nutrient….

Organic Frozen Wild Maine Blueberries sold to Fidelis Dog Biscuit

lloyd — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:26:51 +0000

Mic Mac’s first 50 pound sale of Organicblueberry.com wild Maine Blueberries to make Fidelis Dog Biscuits. April Thibideau picks up our blueberries coming from Rockland Maine. She tries to use local Maine ingredients that now include our blueberries.

Mic Mac Sampled her Fidelis Dog Biscuits and fully approves of them.

Blueberry Smoothie may reduce the risk of developing diabetes in at-risk people.

lloyd — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:03:15 +0000

http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/Research/Blueberries-show-anti-diabetic-potential-Study/?utm_source=Newsletter_Product&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter%2BProduct

Organic blueberry fields grow a lot more than blueberries.

lloyd — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:48:23 +0000

Organic blueberry field maintenance

We cut our blueberry fields on a three year cycle. The first year after cutting there are few berries but the next two years are productive. Because we do not use any chemicals, the fields are full of mound ants that to me are a sign of health of the fields like worms to a garden. They are also full of cranberries, hardhack and other woody growth that you can see in this photo.

When you see our frozen organic blueberries in a freezer bag, you may not realize all the hard work that goes into field maintenance, hand raking and hand winnowing. Since our blueberries are Always Organic (TM) they are safe from our fields to your table without washing.

What’s it like to WWOOF at Peace & Plenty Farm?

lloyd — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:42:21 +0000

DJ and Kathy raking wild organic blueberries

Hi Lloyd,

Sorry it’s been so long since I’ve written. I wanted to send you a writeup of our experience at Peace and Plenty farm:

Kathy and I have been traveling to many different countries and volunteering our time on many different small farms over the past year and a half. We have had many varied experiences including herding cattle, pruning magnolias, building pizza ovens, weeding, culling, and harvesting many different organic veggies, building a strawbale house, working on a nature reserve, and building retaining walls, fences and chicken coups. While we have done much on these other farms, we had no experience quite like the one we had on Peace and Plenty farm with Lloyd and Hope Griscom.

Our accommodation in the Potato Hill Cabin was like living in a mountain paradise! We saw moose on several occasions, one time just 20ft from the front deck. We watched amazing lightning storms to the south from the big picture windows in the kitchen. There were lots of delicious edible mushrooms growing just a couple hundred yards from the cabin, and there were a myriad of trails to hike just out the back door, including a long stretch of the Appalachian Trail.

Along with the incredible accommodation, we had a great work environment. Lloyd is a very easy going, relaxed guy, and so it made raking blueberries for him quite low key, and very pleasureable. The mountain views from the field are gorgeous, and the berries are delicious. Some days we would spend 10 hours in the field, but only when we chose to. Most days we were out there about 4-6 hours. We still managed to pick over 1000lbs of berries in the 4 weeks we were there. Working with the winnowers is very interesting, as it feels like you have stepped into the past and are processing fruit as they were back in the ’50s. The machines work incredibly well for what they were designed, and so sorting the berries is a nice break from bending over and raking. It’s great to be a part of the whole process from field to packaged bag of frozen berries. Kathy and I enjoyed raking and processing the berries so much in our time at Peace and Plenty farm that we are now in search of our own blueberry field to own!

It’s really not just the Potato Hill cabin, or the fields with a mountain view that make Peace and Plenty farm such a great place. Our hosts Lloyd and Hope were truly wonderful to us. They made us feel very at home, and invited us to dinner on a number of occations. We shared many personal stories, adventures, and dreams for the future with them, and they were always, kind, encouraging, and often had very similar views on how the world could be a better place. It’s not often you meet people like Lloyd and Hope Griscom, and we feel very fortunate to have shared a month of our lives with them.

Lloyd, I am still working on the new winnower design. We have been very busy with picking apples (just ended last week) and getting the wood stove you sold us installed in the Yome. It’s all finished now though! I will continue working on the winnower design. I just got a parts list together today, so I will look those up and see what the major costs will be. Keep in touch.

Peace,

–DJ Hewey

2011 Wild Maine Organic Blueberry Harvest is Excellent Quality.

lloyd — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:46:53 +0000

Nina, owner of Up Front Pleasant Gourmet, calls this years frozen blueberry crop “Excellent”. Perhaps even tastier than last year. She sells and eats our frozen Wild Maine Organic Blueberries from her store at 157 Front street, Farmington.

Make your reservation Now.

You can pick up your own 5 Pound freezer bag ($35) from our farm in Madrid, Maine.

We will make a few selective deliveries to Portland, Boston and NYC this Fall depending on interest at $50/freezer bag.

Micmac is not the only four footed visitor to our blueberry fields.

DJ and Kathy are hand raking our organic blueberries. Many thanks.

lloyd — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:22:16 +0000

DJ and Kathy have been at farms in New Zealand, Costa Rica and Nicaragua learning through the WWOOFER program. We thank them for coming to help secure our harvest by hand so that you may have the best, tastiest and healthiest Wild Always Organic Blueberries from Maine’s High Peaks Region. Our fields are at 1700 feet.

MOFGA inspector checking out our fields at Peace and Plenty Farm.

lloyd — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:11:14 +0000

Linda Smithers checking out the growth in organic matter on our second field in Madrid, Maine.

All the biodiversity makes for tasty and healthy Wild Organic Blueberries. We have a coding system that tells who picked, when and which field.

Our Mound ants are a healthy sign of of no chemicals on our fields ever.

NEWWOOF Interns arrive to bring in the 2011 harvest.

lloyd — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:44:37 +0000

We are a part of NEWWOOF so that we can learn skills that will help us one day start our own farm, and permaculture gardens. We are very passionate about living low impact lives, and doing anything we can to help reverse the damage humanity has caused the planet. I (DJ) am a capable handyman, I spent 3 years as a property manager, as well as 5 years working as a full time automation engineer. Kathy, a teacher of 10 years, is a great outdoor worker, and eager to learn all she can about gardening, and permaculture. She is also not afraid of getting dirty or painting. We had our first garden last year, and are looking forward to learning more about working land, and raising a garden that produces!

Self References:
Previously we volunteered at a tree house hostel in Nicaragua, making terraced garden beds, leveling a steep hill to make a platform, and constructing a clay pizza oven all from scratch.

We also volunteered on a small farm in Costa Rica tending to chickens, turkeys, goats, and a small garden. Here we began the construction of a cob chicken coop, as well as many other small farm projects.

We have volunteered at 7 places in New Zealand, and have gained an unbelievable amount of farming, gardening, and general life experience there as well!

August wild organic blueberries at Peace & Plenty Farm

lloyd — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 23:10:33 +0000

August blueberries