A Visit to Dorolenna Farm

Yesterday, I drove out on Moody Mountain Road through a soft fog, admiring the lush green fileds of Lincolnville.  Victoria Marshall, one the many women in our community that inspires me, operates Dorolenna Farm with her husband, Andrew and their two sons in Montville on Berry Road.  They bought the place in 2007 and have incrementally built the foundation for a productive and breathtakingly beautiful farm.  The property is blessed with an assortment of fruit trees: pears and apples of many varieties, a mulberry tree, a peach tree laden with fizzy fruit.  In addition to their 1800’s farmhouse, they erected a barn in 2009 and a number of greenhouses that provide much need warmth for hot crops such as tomatoes, eggplants, peppers and tomatillos.  They also raise meat birds, which is more Andrew’s thing.  Victoria shared with me that the farm is a labor of love: it’s a chosen lifestyle that allows her family, friends and community to eat better and ultimately live better.  It’s stories like these that bring warmth and richness to Mid Coast Maine.