The New American Sustainable Agriculture Project (NASAP) was launched in 2002 by Coastal Enterprises, Inc. as a farmer training program and then adopted by Cultivating Community in 2009. Since then, the program has evolved into two community farms: Packard-Littlefield and Hurricane Valley.
These two farms, located in Lisbon and Falmouth, provide access to affordable growing space, shared infrastructure, training, and support for over 50 growers from immigrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking backgrounds who came to the US with limited resources and a strong desire to continue growing food vital to their culture, financial security, and health.
For the 2024 season, we are completing a community planning process for our farm programs and will be sharing updates in the fall/winter.
All farm plots have been filled for this year. If you are interested in joining Hurricane Valley Community Farm next season please reach out to info@cultivatingcommunity.org or text/WhatsApp Badi at 207-233-7014.
Packard-Littlefield Farm
Owned by the Daley Family, this 500-acre Lisbon property is protected by the Androscoggin Land Trust and the Maine Farms for the Future Program. Cultivating Community along with six new immigrant growers lease 10 acres of beautiful, sandy loam farmland, moving on average $250,000 of vegetables annually to food-insecure families through food pantry networks and farm stands in Cumberland and Androscoggin counties.
Hurricane Valley Farm
In 2018, Cultivating Community partnered with Falmouth Land Trust to start its second community farm on 62 acres of land in Falmouth. This expansion was in response to a group of New Mainers living in the Greater Portland area looking to access affordable land to grow vegetables important to their diets but unavailable in grocery stores. The farm is now home to over 50 community gardeners and farmers and their families, growing on 3,000 square-foot plots.
You can learn more about the Falmouth Land Trust’s work to save the historic Hurrican Valley Farm barn, lead habitat conservation, and solarize the farm on their website.
This program is made possible through community partnerships!
Contact for Inquiries
Please reach out to Badi Camara, our Farm Manager, for inquiries and questions about community farms at badi@cultivatingcommunity.org or (207) 233-7014.
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that here in Maine we are on Indigenous land, the territory of the Penobscot, Maliseet, Mi’kmaq, Passamaquoddy, and Abenaki nations. We are grateful for their continued stewardship. We are mindful of how this impacts our work with community agriculture.
Header and footer photos by Greta Rybus
