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Farms & Agriculture in Aroostook

From farm to table, it's what we do in The County. Come experience generations of agricultural traditions.

Seasons

Typically potatoes blossom after Independence Day and reach peak colors by the third week of July.

A quilted landscape of fields colliding with old-growth forests.


Stretching as far as the eye can see, a patchwork of agricultural fields rolls on and on. Sweeping blooms of pink, white, and purple potato blooms take over the landscape each July and are followed by the vibrant yellows of rapeseed and towering sunflowers of August. This series of blooms is fondly referred to as Blossom Season and many of the local festivals celebrate the season such as New Sweden's Midsommar Festival, and Fort Fairfield's Maine Potato Blossom Festival, and the agricultural fairs of Houlton and Presque Isle. Agriculture is woven into the very fabric of the northern Maine communities and is the cornerstone of industry here.

The quality of Maine's craft breweries begins in the Crown of Maine. The fertile fields of The County proudly grow much of the wheat, rye, and hops used by malthouses across the state and the nation. The chances are good that you have tasted the flavor of The County. One of the hardest questions you might answer on your visit to The County is if you'd like your potato baked, mashed, or fried.

Roadside Stands

Typically these are very small wooden structure located next to the roadway and US Route 1 is famous for them! Usually stand feature fun open flags, produce signs, and are bursting with local rustic charm. These stands sell new potatoes, produce, maple syrup, and sometimes baked goods all made in Aroostook County. Each stand is different from the next, but almost all of them offer five pounds of new potatoes for $5 and payment operates on the honor system.

Farmers' Markets

Danforth Farmers' Market

9-1:00 PM every Saturday at 50 Houlton Road in Danforth, Maine

Fort Fairfield Farmers' Market

2-6:00 PM every Saturday at 284 Main Street in Fort Fairfield, Maine

Presque Isle Farmers' Market

8:30-12:30 PM every Saturday at 19 Riverside Drive in Presque Isle, Maine

Houlton Community Market

8:30-12:30 every Saturday at Historic Market Square in Houlton, Maine

Madawaska Farmers' Market

Parodically 9-1:00 PM on Saturdays at 369 Main Street in Madawaska, Maine

Stockholm Sovereign Market

Periodically 10-2:00 PM on Saturdays at 62 School Street in Stockholm, Maine

Van Buren Farmers' Market

10-2:00 PM every Saturday at 84 Main Street in Van Buren, Maine

What's Grown Here?

Potatoes

Here the king crop is the famous Maine Potato. For the month of July the potato fields come into bloom with white, pink, and sometimes purple blossoms - each color unique to the variety of potato planted. Each field of potatoes has only one harvest a year.

Broccoli

These sprawling fields have a bluish color about them and each field is planted and harvested entirely by hand due to the broccoli brown itself. Typically each field has two harvests of broccoli a year.

Maple Syrup

Maine is the second largest producer of Maple Syrup in the United States. Due to the latitude and elevation of Aroostook County, it is one of the last places that sap stops flowing each spring in New England.

Berries

There are many small family farms featuring U-Pick strawberries, raspberries, and even has haskap berries in Aroostook County.

Rapeseed

Canola Oil is a product of the rapeseed plant. Yellow fields stretch as far as the eye can see in the month of July as its neon blooms fill in the rolling vistas of Aroostook County.

Grains

The high quality of breweries in Maine and Aroostook County all start with the best quality - the reason being that the barley, hops, wheat, and buckwheat are here in the Crown of Maine. Though there are several farms growing hops on a commercial scale it is much more common to find the bright red fields of buckwheat or warm glow of golden wheat waving in the breeze.

Quality by the numbers

This huge landscape of The County is feeding Maine and the nation!

52k

acres of potatoes annually cultivated in Maine

2.06b

pounds of potatoes are grown in Maine

96%

of Maine potatoes are grown in Aroostook County

720

Aroostook County Farms

575k

gallons of Maine maple syrup produced

28m

pounds of broccoli grown in Aroostook County

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