Nezinscot Farm Store
284 Turner Center Rd
Turner, Maine 04282
Tel: (207) 225-3231
Fax: (207) 225-3220
Email: gloria@nezinscotfarm.com
Store Hours
Open Year Round!
Tuesday - Friday
6am to 6pm
Saturday: 7am - 2pm
Sunday: 8am - 2pm
Closed Monday
Farm Scoop
It’s been a wonderful growing season for us here at Nezinscot. We’re definitely in need of rain, but the little that we have had is doing the job for right now.
We’ve been putting up our second crop of hay and haylage for the animals’ winter feed and plan to have one more crop before the season is over with.
Our gardens are producing abundantly and canning beans and beets are top on the list for the next few weeks.
Talking Farm Animals
It’s come to my attention (and to the attention of other employees and interns) that our animals have lots to say. So, I thought I’d share some of what is going on with them and what we feel they’re saying to us.
Pinky and Runty (our two very large sows) “We’re in the last month of our gestation. We deserve a daily bath.” Pinky, weighing in at around 750 pounds, seems to think a bath is an easy task. So we compromised. Both sows get daily hose soaks during their afternoon feeding. Being as large as they are, sometimes it can be a bit intimidating for my youngest kid to be in there with them.
Big Mamma (One of Roy’s Auracana laying hens) feels too pressured to hatch out some chicks; especially now that the guinea hens have joined the red house. “How can one concentrate with those guineas squawking all the time?”
Louise (Angora goat) – “I’ve had it with my long hair; someone needs to give me a trim.” As it happened, her wish was granted just in time for Open Farm Days viewing when hundreds of people showed up.
Ike (our Devon baby calf)- “I’ve been hearing lots of noise about me being fitted for a yoke; I’m not sure what that’s all about, but they’re going to have to catch me first!”
Garlic!!
We’re looking forward to our upcoming annual Garlic Festival on August 14th. This year’s crop was a prolific one, and we look forward to sharing with those of you who attend the festival and dare to eat garlic all day long.
Along with the food, there will be talks, demonstrations, garlic ice-cream churning, a fairy scavenger hunt for kids and kids at heart, and ending the day with a barn dance in our new barns haymow.
Plan ahead and reserve your garlic for the winter season, seed to plant, or both. Call the store and leave your name, number, and amount, and we’ll gladly have it prepared and ready for you by the 14th.
Fresh from the Garden
Green beans, garlic, cucumbers, beets, new potatoes, lots of fresh herbs, zucchini, summer squash, hoop house tomatoes, sunflowers, and the special of the week, kohlrabi.
What is kohlrabi? Some might not be familiar with it, but for me, it was one of those childhood, fresh from the garden, snacks that has lasted as a wonderful memory. They look like space ships in the garden (both brilliant purple and green), we eat them raw and they taste like a cross between a cabbage, turnip and a radish. Peel them, slice the circular vegetable into discs, salt and enjoy the crisp refreshing flavor.
It’s been a wonderful growing season for us here at Nezinscot. We’re definitely in need of rain, but the little that we have had is doing the job for right now.
We’ve been putting up our second crop of hay and haylage for the animals’ winter feed and plan to have one more crop before the season is over with.
Our gardens are producing abundantly and canning beans and beets are top on the list for the next few weeks.
Talking Farm Animals
It’s come to my attention (and to the attention of other employees and interns) that our animals have lots to say. So, I thought I’d share some of what is going on with them and what we feel they’re saying to us.
Pinky and Runty (our two very large sows) “We’re in the last month of our gestation. We deserve a daily bath.” Pinky, weighing in at around 750 pounds, seems to think a bath is an easy task. So we compromised. Both sows get daily hose soaks during their afternoon feeding. Being as large as they are, sometimes it can be a bit intimidating for my youngest kid to be in there with them.
Big Mamma (One of Roy’s Auracana laying hens) feels too pressured to hatch out some chicks; especially now that the guinea hens have joined the red house. “How can one concentrate with those guineas squawking all the time?”
Louise (Angora goat) – “I’ve had it with my long hair; someone needs to give me a trim.” As it happened, her wish was granted just in time for Open Farm Days viewing when hundreds of people showed up.
Ike (our Devon baby calf)- “I’ve been hearing lots of noise about me being fitted for a yoke; I’m not sure what that’s all about, but they’re going to have to catch me first!”
Garlic!!
We’re looking forward to our upcoming annual Garlic Festival on August 14th. This year’s crop was a prolific one, and we look forward to sharing with those of you who attend the festival and dare to eat garlic all day long.
Along with the food, there will be talks, demonstrations, garlic ice-cream churning, a fairy scavenger hunt for kids and kids at heart, and ending the day with a barn dance in our new barns haymow.
Plan ahead and reserve your garlic for the winter season, seed to plant, or both. Call the store and leave your name, number, and amount, and we’ll gladly have it prepared and ready for you by the 14th.
Fresh from the Garden
Green beans, garlic, cucumbers, beets, new potatoes, lots of fresh herbs, zucchini, summer squash, hoop house tomatoes, sunflowers, and the special of the week, kohlrabi.
What is kohlrabi? Some might not be familiar with it, but for me, it was one of those childhood, fresh from the garden, snacks that has lasted as a wonderful memory. They look like space ships in the garden (both brilliant purple and green), we eat them raw and they taste like a cross between a cabbage, turnip and a radish. Peel them, slice the circular vegetable into discs, salt and enjoy the crisp refreshing flavor.