New Farmers Project Farm Visit Series
Calling all New Farmers — and Anyone with Fewer Than 10 Years of Experience in Farming! Join the Maine New Farmers Project for our Farm Visit Series.
Free for all! Registration is required to receive updates and resources discussed at the farm visit.
Farm Visits for 2025:
- July 12: Pasture Walk at Abraham’s Goat Farm & Creamery
- August 8: Using Tech to Grow Sales on the Mid-Coast
- September 6: Pasture Walk at Waldoview Farm
For more pasture walks offered around the state, please visit the 2025 Pasture Walk Series webpage.
Abraham’s Goat Farm & Creamery in Newport
July 12, 2025
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Abraham’s Goat Farm and Creamery
1000 Elm Street, Newport, Maine 04953
Abraham’s Goat Farm & Creamery is a family-owned-and-operated goat farm in Newport, Maine, offering the freshest farm-to-table food, including meat, milk, eggs, and cheese. Raised with care and love, our animals are treated as part of the family, free to roam over our 60-acre property, in a natural and humane environment. We truly believe the pasture we provide and the surrounding trees and shade are helpful to our animals. Visitors will get a chance to view the creamery, barn, and tour our rotational grazing system.
To protect the health of the livestock at this event, participants are encouraged to wear clothes and shoes that have not been in contact with their own livestock. Booties and a boot wash will be provided.
Using Tech To Grow Sales on the Mid-Coast
August 8, 2025
(rain date August 15)
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Tenderwild Farm
33 Gurney St, Rockport, Maine 04856
Join UMaine Extension and the Maine New Farmers Project for a visit to Tenderwild Farm. We will tour the farm with owner Peter Alsop and learn how he is using smart technology to improve farm efficiency and production. Peter will be joined by Tenderwild’s Business Manager, Rory Keohane, to discuss their tech-enabled approach to expanding access to the mid-coast market through e-commerce, home delivery, packing and fulfillment workflows, and multi-channel sales integration for farm stores, farmers markets and online sales.
Waldoview Farm in Winterport
September 6, 2025
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Waldoview Farm
238 Goshen Road, Winterport, Maine 04496
Waldoview Farm has 50-80 breeding Katahdin ewes with lambs raised in either conventional or pasture environments. Learn about this farm’s outstanding management practices, from facilities set-up to regenerative grazing strategies and genetic selection. Participants might even have a chance to view a solar grazing system.
To protect the health of the livestock at this event, participants are encouraged to wear clothes and shoes that have not been in contact with their own livestock. Booties and a boot wash will be provided.
These farm visits are being funded through the Boots to Bushels Program.
The University of Maine System is an equal opportunity institution committed to nondiscrimination.