Partners
Meet the organic farmers who grow our blueberries.
We buy fruit directly from a small number of organic farms in the wild-blueberry-producing regions of Maine.
We’re proud to work with local growers who cultivate the highest-quality fruit. That quality emerges from who our partners are as people, how they relate to their families & treat their workers, as well as their farming practices and the principles & attitudes they bring to the land they manage.
Josh Pond Farm & Moon Hill Farm
The Beal Family — Whiting, Maine
The Beals manage 12 acres of wild blueberry barrens on their own Moon Hill Farm, as well as 100 acres on Josh Pond Farm, located in the towns of Whiting, Marion Township and Cooper.
Tim and Lydia established Moon Hill Farm in 1991, and with their children Nick, Jay and Clara represent five generations of Maine wild blueberry farming. They farm organically as part of “a long-term commitment to encouraging the wild blueberries and insect balances on our land.” They refrain even from approved pesticides, relying on alternate-year field burning and diligent monitoring to prevent pests.
Nash Family Farms
The Nash Family — Appleton, Maine
The Nash family manages around 600 acres of wild blueberry barrens in Midcoast Maine.
Cary and Linda Nash founded Nash Farms in 1983, but as Linda told us, “Cary has been working in and around wild blueberries his whole life, beginning when he was in a playpen in the blueberry field while his mother ran a harvest crew.”
The Nashes began working organically in 2006, when they helped another grower transition his land to organics. Their experience helping others transition eventually led them to their own fields, just in time for the first vintage of Arkadia!
Blue Barren Farm
The Jacoby Family — Columbia, maine
The Jacoby Family live on their farm, Blue Barrens Farm. The 175 acres they manage spread over an area stretching along the Atlantic coast from Harrington up to the Canadian border.
Mark and Lisa Jacoby operate the family farm, which they started in 1990, with help from their children Franklin, Hazel, Michael and Millie.
They’ve worked organically from the beginning, forgoing even permitted sprays. As Mark puts it, “We value our health, the health of our workers, the health of the people who eat our blueberries, and the health of the planet.”