Ensuring Cape Elizabeth’s Farming Future…

The Cape Farm Alliance is a group of farmers, fishermen, gardeners, horse lovers, business owners and supporters of a local food future for our town.

We work cooperatively throughout the year to “ensure Cape Elizabeth’s farming future,” to increase access to local food, to help maintain the rural character of our town, to enhance the economic viability of local farms and food-related businesses and to raise awareness about local farming, fishing and food.

Check out our initiatives, attend a meeting or Cape Farm Alliance event, find a local farm or consider lending your financial support!

What’s in Season Right Now?

With the warm dry spring we’ve had, our farmers are already harvesting lots of crops – salad greens, spinach, asparagus, rhubarb (which makes a wonderful pie without the berries!), ramps, fresh herbs, and fiddleheads.  Our hens are laying, our fishermen are still bringing in sweet lobsters, and everyone is planting. Alewive’s Brook Farm is always open year round, selling fresh eggs, seafood, eggs, vegetables, Maine grown flours, and other items.  Stop in 7 days a week, call 799-7743, or go to www.alewivesbrookfarm.com. Check our farm directory or map for details and directions. And many of our farmers are selling at Portland’s Farmers’ Market, Wednesdays in Monument Square; Saturdays in Deering Oaks Park.

PLUS: Looking for a convenient way to buy Maine foods year-round?  Visit the huge new online farmers’ market created by Penny Jordan and Caitlin Jordan - Cape Farms’ Market.  You’ll find wonderfully fresh, tasty foods from an outstanding array of Maine farms.

Jordan’s Farm Market will be open June 1 (along with the popular al fresco restaurant, The Well), but their ‘dirt yard’ is now open (7 days/week) for compost, mulch, crushed stone and young seedlings for your garden.  Call Scott at 807-1761. You can pick up or he’ll deliver you yard care products.

Also opening in June, will be a new self-serve farmstand at Green Spark Farm on Fowler Rd., where they’re growing an amazing range of tasty vegetables and seedlings – and are MOFGA certified organic. Look for their signs and go to their website for more information.