Northeast Creek Farm

Healthy Acadia is partnering with Maine Coast Heritage Trust (MCHT) and the MDI Housing Authority to explore the feasibility of making more local land available for food production.

MCHT and the Housing Authority recently purchased the Northeast Creek Farm property, formerly known as the Pooler Farm or Keif Farm, in Salisbury Cove. This remarkable property has many acres of fields, woods, and wetlands bordering Northeast Creek. A portion of the property will be used for affordable community housing, and approximately 100 acres will become a natural preserve. Healthy Acadia is working with partners to determine the feasibility of making several acres of the field accessible to a local farmer to grow fresh food for community members.

With land costs rising ever-higher, and land in high demand here in coastal Maine, we hope that the Northeast Creek Farm project will model an innovative and proactive way to make sure that there is always land available for local food production. For more information about this project, please contact Doug Michael, doug@healthyacadia.org, 288-5331, or read our May 2005 press release.