Jun 24, 2021 | Food for Thought
Celebrate farmland for the future! Join Maine Farmland Trust at one of Nezinscot Farm‘s properties in Turner, Maine! Meet farmers Gloria and Gregg Varney, learn how working with MFT to purchase and protect several farm properties in the area has helped them expand...
Jun 9, 2021 | Life, Special Events, Summer time
There is nothing joyous about losing a son, friend, sibling, or community member. However, I believe that it is important to come together as friends, family, and community to remember and share stories of those loved ones as a way to help us all heal and process....
Feb 23, 2021 | Food for Thought, Life
My days off over the past year and a half have been spent working on numerous tasks around the farm, store, and studio. Tasks needing to be finished, updated, dressed up, etc…. while giving me the opportunity to contemplate and begin to put understanding and perhaps...
Oct 12, 2020 | Business Updates
Our Health and Safety Precautions Masks are required in the storeWe sanitize counters and stations throughout the dayCustomers should sanitize hands before entering storeDine-in seating is closed until further notice Our Commitment to the Community We believe our role...
Jun 27, 2020 | Fiber Studio
Celia G. Shaheen Studio Manager Celia Shaheen is a craftsperson, teaching artist, and lifelong student from Texas. Having interned at Nezinscot in the summer of 2019, she is excited to return to the farm and call Maine home! In 2020, Celia graduated with a BFA in...
Apr 1, 2020 | Food for Thought
As a farmer, it is not an option to call in sick; the animals and farm need attending to. As a farmer/business owner, it is not an option to call in sick; my community and staff need attending to. As I continue on a day to day basis, working through...
Jun 20, 2019 | Fiber Studio, Homesteading Skills, Life, Summer time
Join us in welcoming our summer 2019 Fiber Interns. They’ll we working in the studio throughout the week and hosting the Fiber on the Porch demos throughout the summer. Meet the Interns Zelda Mazon-Freedman Zelda Mazor-Freedman is a fiber artist and writer from...
Jun 5, 2019 | Farming, Homesteading Skills, Life
A few years back I wrote a few essays based on a reaction to several frustrating encounters with family, friends and neighbors and their views/perception of farming as a career option. “The Art of Farming” and “Creating a Purposeful Life” offer a response and a...
May 6, 2019 | Farming, Life
Twelve years ago, a year after saying good bye to our former dog, Bernice (our matriarch Llama) would communicate with Nancy (our animal communicator) about the fact that a dog will be coming to me. It would be the male runt of the litter. A week later, I received a...
