Bascom Farm is an organic diversified farm.
Our goal is to produce healthy, organic produce and humanely raised, grass-fed lamb for our community.
High Tunnel greenhouses at Bascom Farm
Organic, intensive vegetable production at Bascom Farm
We use intensive, sustainable organic methods to grow 1.5 acres vegetables. All produce is organically grown and we will be certified organic in 2023. To see what we grow through the seasons click here.
Shiitake Mushrooms grown naturally on logs…..
Shiitake mushrooms are grown on maple logs we cut, innoculate, and stack in a shady oak-hemlock grove. It takes a year before the logs begin producing mushrooms.
A fine flush of Shiitake mushrooms ready for harvest. Logs produce for 3-4 years. We keep around 600 logs in production.
We manage 50 Katahdin Sheep on 16 acres of pasture.
We manage a flock of +/-50 Katahdin sheep, moving them regularly through our pastures ensuring they get the best quality grass every day, a process that also ensures our pastures stay healthy and productive. Each fall our rams Gandalf and Appa are very busy speed-dating the ewes, resulting in +/- 90 lambs dropping sometime in February-March.
Our sheep are rotationally grazed and fed local dairy quality hay over the winter.
Developed in Maine, the Katahdin sheep breed is a “hair” sheep and requires no shearing. They are hardy and often have triplets.
Grain is minimally fed to ewes at lambing time and lambs receive grain free choice for 2 months until they go out on pasture in spring.
Our 6,000 tap maple sugar bush is certified organic.
The last tap goes in….
The Bascom Connection:
We sell our sap to Bascom Maple…yes, Dean is a second cousin to Bruce Bascom!