About US
We are Polly Shyka and Prentice Grassi. We have been working in agriculture for more than 30 years and have been farming this land since 2001. We love to eat delicious food, to be outside, to grow things, and to build things; and we don't mind getting dirty! We are friendly and professional.
We have three sons, Joseph, Ben and Abel who have grown up here…and are pretty grown up at this point! We have enjoyed the challenges and rewards of working from home with them. All three now play an active role on the crew when their schedules allow it.
We both strive to be honest and clear communicators and make it an everyday goal to see things through others' viewpoints. We respect and welcome diversity of all kinds. Our interests besides agriculture include exploring nature, art, music, food, woodworking, everyday activism and peacemaking.
“OUR” LAND
We see our place in a long line of land stewards, humans who have tended these fields and woods and have been sustained by them. We reckon with the facts of history and seek ways to reconcile our current work and ownership with the harms done by white settlers and the colonial mindset that still runs strong today.
This land now is the home to us and Villageside Farm, a diversified farm business neighboring to the east the small town center of Freedom, Maine. Villageside Farm is comprised of a contiguous 40-acre field of good farmland soils and an 80-acre woodlot.
OUR PRODUCTS
Over 100 varieties of organically grown produce for local and regional markets.
Vegetable, herb and flower seedlings sold from the farm during our Open Hours from late April to late June.
Vegetable, herb and flower seedlings sold at Uncle Dean's Good Groceries (Waterville), Tiller & Rye (Brewer), Mainescape (Blue Hill) and from the Belfast Coop, May-July