Painted Pepper Farm Spring 2026 Newsletter
Hello Painted Pepper Farm Friends & Family!
Spring has arrived and the Farm is slowly waking up with birdsong and emerging flowers.
With the snow gone, our Delightful Dairy Does are now venturing into the woods, returning to their daily herding rhythm. We are currently milking ½ of our milking herd of 28, eight of which are on extended lactation to help us keep a year-round milk supply, and we are preparing actively for our kidding season which will begin mid-May.
Meanwhile, we are continuing in the Creamery and Farm Kitchen making delicious Dairy Delights in small batches, and stocking up on our “Not Too Sweet Treats” and Maine Organic Preserves — preparing our preorders for FarmDrop each week, keeping our open anytime/all-the-time Farm Stand in good supply and our wholesale accounts well stocked, as well.
Below are some exciting developments and updates that we shared on social media that we wanted to share with you here as well!
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- Support Painted Pepper Farm’s Delightful Dairy Does
- Support Us & SAVE with our CSA
- Delicious Farm Stand Preorder Pickups — Wednesdays & Saturdays
- Find us on FarmDrop — Online Farmers’ Market
- Get Your Goats!
- Ella Meera Pottery
- Food Security Fund
- Enjoy Farmer Lisa’s STORM DAMAGE Poetry
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SUPPORT PAINTED PEPPER FARM’S DELIGHTFUL DAIRY DOES
Photo credit Xenophon Photography
Our Delightful Dairy Does are grateful for your support — because of our customers, they have a pretty idyllic life, especially as the woods come back to life with forage and browse. While they are very resourceful and extremely hard working, still they depend on you and your purchases of products and their kids to shoulder the hefty feed bill that they require to stay healthy and productive.
Here is how your dollars can best help keep our Delightful Dairy Does fed:
1 Reserve a goat! — we still have a few excellent yearlings and senior does available! In fact, we have a trip planned at the end of April leaving from Maine to Tennessee and can deliver! We are also taking reservations for our upcoming kidding season.
Message us or VISIT our Goat Sales Information page to learn more
2 Purchase our Dairy Delights DIRECTLY from our self-serve open all-the-time Farm Stand or by mail order—
Pay with cash/check rather than plastic — 100% of your $$ goes to the goats. With plastic 3% goes to the bank — 97% of your $$ goes to the goats
3 Order our products through FarmDrop —
This is the next best option! We donate 15% of what you pay to FarmDrop for their fantabulous help with the web platform and getting everything to you conveniently — and it’s well worth it!
— 85% of your $$ goes to the goats
4 Purchase our Dairy Delights and other Farm Goodies from one of our wholesale partners
It all makes a difference and helps support local grocers and bakeries in the process! — 60% of your $$ goes to the goats
For a full list of our Wholesale Partners, Visit HERE
Help keep our local food businesses and farms strong! Buy Local Foods * Support Family Farms * Shop Small Businesses
Together we make a better, brighter and more delicious world!
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Support Painted Pepper Farm and SAVE with our CSA!
Announcing our Dairy Delights Farmstand CSA Share!
Sign up for your share and enjoy MORE Dairy Delights for your dollars while helping to support our Family Farm by getting your Dairy Delights directly from our Farm!
We have a range of price range options — from $150 to $900 — and now easier than ever to use! Each share is an online gift card and you can check out right on your device each time you visit — or message us and we will do it for you!
Painted Pepper Farmstand CSA Share Levels Available
$150 HALF SEASON Single Farmstand Share — $165 Farmstand Credit
$300 HALF SEASON Family Farmstand Share — $330 Farmstand Credit
$450 FULL SEASON Single Farmstand Share — $495 Farmstand Credit
$900 FULL SEASON Family Farmstand Share — $990 Farmstand Credit
Full share provides Approximately $30/week of Dairy Delights deliciousness (Single share is approximately $15/week) — includes all Yogurt, Kefir, Gelato, cheesecake, Fudge and chèvre — AND our “Not Too Sweet Treats” — and it all comes at 10% off retail price for CSA Members only!
You pick when to use your CSA credit. Choose from what is stocked in the Farmstand which is open 24/7 year round — Pre-orders always welcome!
Live too far away to visit our Farmstand?? No problem! You may also choose to ship selections!
To learn more and be a part of our Dairy Delights Community Supported Agriculture Family, visit us at:
Thank you for supporting our family farm!
Farmers Lisa & Margaret Mae
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Farm Stand Preorder Pickups Wednesday & Saturday
While you can preorder or just stop by to get many of our Dairy Delights and “Not Too Sweet Treats” anytime, we have some special offerings that are available only by preorder for Wednesday and Saturday Pickup
Moo’s Cannoli, Cannoli Cream & Cannoli Kits * Festive Fudge & Nuts Gift Boxes
Treats & Tea for 2 & 3 Gift Boxes * Mellie’s Famous Organic Brown Bread Muffins
Farmer Lisa’s Famous Organic Raspberry Coconut Kefir Muffins
Chevre & Spinach Lasagna — Regular & GF
Goat’s Milk — Plain, Chocolate, Coffee — 1/2 gallon & 26oz
Yogurt & Kefir — ½ gallon
Order by Thursday for Saturday Farm Stand pickup
Order by Monday for Wednesday Farm Stand Pickup, Shipping to Your Door or FarmDrop Delivery
FOUR ways to order!
1) Order online
2) Message us your order on Instagram or FaceBook
3) Text us your order at 207.598.6621
4) Order online for FarmDrop pickup here (Monday preorder/Wednesday pickup):
Our Farm Stand is always open 24/7 — Come have an adventure! You will always find these Dairy Delights & Not Too Sweet Treats:
Yogut & Kefir * Granola * Maine Maple Roasted Nuts * Gelato * Sorbetto * Chevre, Ricotta & Labneh * Cheesecake * Fudge * Cannoli Cream & Kits * Maine Organic Preserves
— AND we will leave the lights on for you and the spoons out
Plan time to visit Moo’s Corner Nature Sanctuary & our Little Free Library on the South Side of the farm dawn to dusk — follow signs to Moo’s
Find Us on FarmDrop!
We are now in our 3rd year of reaching our customers through FarmDrop and our second year of hosting a FarmDrop pickup location at our Painted Pepper Farm Stand. We love our FarmDrop Customers and how it allows us to be really creative with what we can offer. This year alone we’ve added Lasagna, a variety of “Not Too Sweet Organic Treats” Kefir Muffins, Moo’s Cannoli, Cannoli Cream & Kits and Flavored Milk! Order by Monday — pickup Wednesday at our Farm Stand from this fantabulous online, Year-round, farmers market or at these locations.
Here’s the full list of FarmDrop Market Hubs to where we are now delivering Painted Pepper Farm and Dairy Delights Creamery goodies each Wednesday:
Blue Hill * Brooklin * Brooksville * Bucksport * Castine * Deer Isle * Ellsworth * MDI * Northport * Searsport * Sedgwick * Steuben * Stockton Springs
Sign up here for more information and to receive updates about FarmDrop. We’re excited for you to join our mission and put your money where your heart is!
We have been participating in FarmDrop since the beginning of 2024 and are excited to be part of bringing the bounty of our Downeast region’s farmers and food producers to our eastern Hancock County/western Washington County community!
FarmDrop is a Maine-based, mission-driven business. Over the last 5 years, the FarmDrop mission has broadened to include building powerful networks of community food systems. We bring people great food while supporting a diverse network of small- scale producers. We’re making it easier to choose great food being produced in our very own foodsheds. By shopping on FarmDrop you:
- Get the freshest, most nutritious local foods available year round
- Support the interests of small-scale food producers in your community
- Help preserve the sustainable stewardship of our rural landscapes
- Sustain local jobs and businesses
FarmDrop increases community access to locally made and grown products through this restructured food system, which in turn, serves our planet and our place-based sense of self and sovereignty.
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GET Your GOATS!
Kidding season begins in May at Painted Pepper Farm and we are taking reservations now
We also have a few Senior & Junior Does available.
Friendly, lovable & productive — Nigerian Dairy Goats are perfect for the backyard, the homestead, the family milk supply & are wonderful companions for children of all ages.
Our closed herd of Delightful Dairy Does (& Bucks) is disease-test negative for CAE, CL, Johnes & Brucellosis and ADGA registered. We are an ADGA Plus Herd and participate in DHIR and Linear Appraisal
Learn more by visiting HERE
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Ella Meera Pottery
Ella Meera Pottery is now featured in our Painted Pepper Farm Stand AND in our online Farmstore!
A beautiful selection of rotating unique pieces perfect for gift giving or bringing beauty to your own home — come browse! Each unique piece is individually priced, ask us for a virtual tour.
Ella’s Pottery is all thrown on a foot-powered kick wheel. Ella draws inspiration from forms they love in nature. Their favorite pots to make currently are their mushroom-inspired incense burners.
All proceeds go directly to Ella who is one of our original Painted Pepper Farmers since 1998 and goat herder since 2003!
Learn more about the pottery process here.
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FOOD SECURITY FUND
Painted Pepper Farm and The Mindful Loaf Baking Company are both passionate about assisting local food pantries to help battle food Insecurity in our area. We are partnering to bring fresh sourdough bread and our Dairy Delights goat chevre to community pantries but we can’t do it without help.
Every $5 raised will cover the cost of ingredients, production, and transport to a pantry of either a loaf of sourdough or a 4oz tub of chevre.
Whether you are able to give $1, $5, or more, every dollar will make an impact on the lives of a local family in need.
Let’s make a difference in our community together!
Donate in person at our Farm Stand or at The Mindful Loaf Bread Shed OR online HERE
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Enjoy Farmer Lisa’s STORM DAMAGE Poetry
As we move into the Spring of 2026, it is the perfect opportunity to look back at our Spring 2025 Magical Musical Poetry Tour of Farmer Lisa’s poetry collection STORM DAMAGE: Transformative Healing.
We have collected the recorded performances, written poems as well as the musical prologue and epilogue featuring photos and videos from our Farm’s Moo’s Corner Nature Sanctuary all in one place so you can enjoy and savor.
Here is a sampling of what our audiences shared:
“Awesome and powerful!”
“…Deeply personal, yet also playful and transcendent. It will be on my mind for a long time to come…”
“What an amazing and beautiful expression of profound loss and resurrection.”
Thank you to all who have shared in the STORM DAMAGE experience so far and those to come! While the published collection in book form is still in process, you may begin or extend your STORM DAMAGE experience at any time by visiting our WinterSea Theatre Experiment page dedicated to all things STORM DAMAGE
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Thank you to all our farm customers and friends and beloveds —
We know you are there and it makes us so happy!
To stay connected to our Farm, please visit:
www.facebook.com/PaintedPepperFarm
You may also reach us directly at paintedpepperfarm@gmail.com
207-598-6621 for voice/text
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