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The Herb Hill Micro Dairy and Organic Farm

18 B Brookline Street

Please join Lucy McKain to try your hand at milking a goat, - it’s not as easy! Make a willow crown or ribbon wand (for yourself or a baby goat) for a goat photo op displaying “goature fashion”! Farm tours are 11 am, 1 and 2 pm to meet our high-spirited, hard working dairy goat queens and learn about our milk’s nutritious benefits. Our self-serve Farm Store will be open for organic food and milk.

Upswing Farm

65 Brookline Street

Please join Brittany and Kevin Overshiner for hourly greenhouse tours and/or a dahlia field tour at 11am and 2 pm. We will offer a “touch a truck” with farm tractors, trucks and equipment, free crafts and activities for kids and adults, and free popcorn. Our local farm to table restaurant, The Lazy Bubble, will offer free samples and prepared food for purchase made from Upswing Farm’s organic produce.

Kimstead Farm

169 Hollis Street

Please join Theresa LeBlanc and Ron Hauff for a sugarhouse tour where we make maple syrup every sugaring season. Visit our goats, donkeys, chickens and our Zebu mini-cow, Bessie. Various tractors and implements will be on display. Our farm products are available for purchase and, weather permitting, free group hayrides around the farm.

Kimball Fruit Farm

184 Hollis Street

Please join Amanda and David Wadleigh for a self-guided Cornucopia scavenger hunt for kids. Follow clues and put together cornucopias to color later. Purchase a pumpkin and paint it for the Halloween season! Enjoy apple picking, samples, and our homemade cider donuts at our on-farm retail store!

The Maker Farm

12 Bancroft Street

Please join Emily and Eric Piper at The Maker Farm, a 1735 colonial homestead. We are an equine and barnyard animal sanctuary hosting year round creative programming for all ages. Tour our Farm (30 horses!) and create an Autumn pumpkin fairy house to take home. The purchase of our popular hand crafted plaque, Hearts for Dancer, named for our beloved Amish cart horse, helps support our horse rescue program.

Clover Physical Therapy

44 Prescott Street

Please join Laura Dennis demonstrating therapy on horseback (“hippotherapy”) for children with neurological conditions build strength, balance and coordination using the horse's natural movement to engage muscles and senses. Meet the team and horses, explore the therapy space to see what makes hippotherapy so special with a mock session at 12:30 pm. Dress up the horses at 1pm and vote for best dressed in a Pony Parade! Pony rides throughout the day (weather permitting).

Clover Luck Farm Dairy

84 Jewett Street

Please join Dave Sears for a tour of his scenic farm and introductions to his Jersey and Normande cows, his milking operation, and conversation about the benefits of raw milk. Learn about his prized Berkshire and Ossabaw Island hogs brought to our Shores by English and Spanish settlers still prized for their delicious meat. Products available for purchase at his on-farm retail store.

Robinwood Farm

36 Oak Hill Road

Please join Tony Beattie for a sawmill demonstration using local logs to create lumber.

Please meet Ami O’Grady owner of The Bloomery. The Bloomery is a small-scale specialty cut flower grower providing a diverse mix of seasonal blooms, including zinnias, sunflowers, snapdragons, dahlias, roses, lisianthus, celosia and more. The Bloomery focuses on unique flower varieties, with sustainable and organic growing practices, producing an ever-changing selection of field-grown flowers throughout the New England growing season.

Please meet Andrew and Elizabeth Houde, owners of Three Fables Flower Farm, a small family-run flower farm specializing in premium, seasonal cut flowers grown locally with care and intention. Three Fables Flower Farm produce distinctive blooms for florists, floral designers, weddings, events and customers looking for fresh, locally grown flowers. We offer curated dahlia tubers through our online shop, with an emphasis on quality planting stock, accurate labeling and varieties we are proud to grow ourselves.

Pepperell Community Garden

45 Main Street

The Pepperell Community Garden is behind the Fitzpatrick Collaborative. Park and enter from the east side adjacent to the Big Backyard playground.

Please join Dave Armstrong, Bob Cataldo, INPAC (Invasive and Native Plant Advisory Committee) members, and Community Garden gardeners for a tour of the Pepperell Community Garden. View our pollinator plot; hummingbird, Luna moth, and wildflower gardens; along with CO-OP and PACH plots, participating gardener's vegetable gardens, and our new greenhouse.  

While there, children can paint a mini-pumpkin, there will be a drawing for a vegetable basket, and interested visitors can learn how to participate next year.