Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Heritage Trust and the Blue Hill Co-op are teaming up again this summer to present a series of farm tours. These tours are free, family-friendly, and open to the public.
The first tour will be held at Old Ackley Farm in Blue Hill on Saturday, June 8 at 1:00 p.m. Old Ackley is a 137-acre farm owned and operated by Colleen Prentiss and Bob Sullivan, raising organic pastured poultry, including chicken, duck, and heritage turkey. They also raise 100% grass-fed organic beef, 100% grass-fed dairy, and pastured pork. Products are available at their farm store, at the Co-op, and at local farmer’s markets.
Participants will have the opportunity to explore and learn about the operations of this small family farm on which Blue Hill Heritage Trust holds a conservation easement. For more information or to pre-register for the June 8th tour, please call BHHT’s office at 374-5118 or e-mail eileen@bluehillheritagetrust.org.
Blue Hill Heritage Trust is a nonprofit, membership-based land conservation organization founded in 1985 by residents of the Blue Hill Peninsula. Its mission is to work with landowners to conserve land and water of special ecological, natural, agricultural, scenic, cultural and recreational significance in Blue Hill, Brooklin, Brooksville, Penobscot, Sedgwick and Surry and to increase public understanding of the importance of land and water conservation.
The Trust currently owns or holds conservation easements on 6,266 acres of land throughout the Blue Hill Peninsula, including over 2,000 acres of farmland. For more information, visit the Trust’s website at www.bluehillheritagetrust.org or office at 258 Mountain Road, Blue Hill.
The Blue Hill Co-op is a community market and café offering a wide range of fresh local and organic produce, dairy, meat, bread, beer and wine, baked goods, health and beauty products and bulk items. Find more online at bluehill.coop or call them at 374-2165.
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