 The Morris Farm Trust is both a working farm and an educational resource for the communities of mid coast Maine. Our 50 acres of pasture and farmland support a Univeristy of Maine Extension Master Gardener Demonstration Garden, the Morris Farm Wiscasset Primary School Garden, Wiscasset Community Gardens, resident farm: Aland-Dee Farm with poultry, holsteins cows, Clydesdale horses and Lacie the Nubian Goat and her kid, Lizzie. The remaining 10 acres of our land is wooded and features an interpretive trail that connects to the Wiscasset Town Trails. A yurt in the woods is available for summer or hardy winter campers. 
Founded in 1994, the Morris Farm was created in an effort to preserve and operate one of the last remaining farms in Wiscasset. In the ensuing ten years, trustees, community volunteers, members, and staff have worked tirelessly to restore and expand the farm's buildings and to rejuvenate the land. By all measures, our progress has been impressive. Contemporaneous with the renovation of the farm has been the development of educational programming designed to provide children and adults with the knowledge and skills to understand sustainable agriculture concepts, grow their own food, and support the local food system.
The Morris Farm offers fieldtrips and after school programs for kindergarten through high school students tied to Maine Learning Results that provide hands-on, real life educational experiences for children of all levels and academic ability as well as lectures, events and demonstrations for both children and adults. 
All of our programs rely on participation from trained community volunteers and utilize the farm's land and animals to foster respect for the earth and to instill a sense of shared responsibility for the wise stewardship of natural resources. The farm's programs for adults range from gardening workshops to seminars by advocates of sustainable agriculture and practitioners of traditional handcrafts and farmer-to-farmer training and information exchanges.
Products produced on the farm are for sale seasonally in the farm lobby (self-service, honor system) and can include unpasteurized milk, eggs, beef, chicken, pork and vegetables. History of the Farm The Morris Farm was a family farm, most recently the home and farm of Forrest Morris. Mr. Morris was one of a vanishing breed of country gentlemen, a gentleman not by means but by manner; he was well-known and liked. He is particularly remembered for his ponies and the rides he gave on his carts and buggies. Others remember working as teenagers for Mr. Morris on the farm. The upwelling of good feeling for the farm that helped save the Morris Farm from real estate development came in large part from people's memories of Forrest Morris and his family. The thousands of hours volunteered by members of the Wiscasset community, from teachers to tree surgeons, seamstresses to secretaries, show the depth of support for this farm and the goals of the Trust. When the Morris Farm was offered for sale in May of 1994, Lincoln County citizens recognized the bounty of the farm's landscape  The Mission The Morris Farm Trust recognizes that local, ecologically-sound farming is an essential yet threatened part of our heritage. As the traditional working landscapes of Maine continue to disappear, there is an intensifying need to support agriculture that is sustained from the work and wisdom of people within our community. As a non-profit, educational, membership organization, The Morris Farm Trust promotes:
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