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Whitney Everybody Harvests Community Garden
Whitney Everybody Harvests Community Garden
A Community-Building Partnership Project
A Community-Building Partnership Project
Involving
Involving
Green Ellsworth, Healthy Acadia, Ellsworth Elementary, Middle and High Schools, Friends in Action, the Ellsworth Garden Club and Master Gardener Volunteers
Green Ellsworth, Healthy Acadia, Ellsworth Elementary, Middle and High Schools, Friends in Action, the Ellsworth Garden Club and Master Gardener Volunteers
An “everybody-harvests” organic micro-farm was established in 2024 by Green Ellsworth in partnership with Healthy Acadia, Ellsworth Elementary, Middle, and High Schools, Friends in Action, the Ellsworth Garden Club, and Master Gardener Volunteers at Frenchman Bay Conservancy’s Whitney Community Forest. The farm cultivates a community where everyone has access to healthy, locally grown produce and a meaningful connection to the land and growing practices that sustain us.
The farm’s one acre of prime soil is planted with a wide variety of fruits and vegetables available for harvest by any individuals or families seeking free access to fresh, seasonal, locally grown produce and flowers from April through December.
Community members are welcome to participate through planting, tending, and harvesting, supporting both individual access and broader food distribution efforts. Produce grown at the farm is shared with more than 20 food security organizations throughout Hancock County, helping strengthen the local food system.
Families are encouraged to visit and participate together, offering children hands-on opportunities to learn where food comes from and how it is grown.
If you would like to learn more or get involved contact Green Ellsworth.
Jay Barnes, Ellsworth Garden Club and Green Ellsworth volunteer, planting 300 garlic bulbs for 2026
Harvest of the Week
Harvest of the Week
2025 Season: Completed
The 2026 harvest schedule will be added in early spring 2026.
Planting Schedule
Planting Schedule
October 2025: Garlic bulbs planted for 2026
Explore photos below of the Everybody Harvest Community Garden, from tilling the soil to the first harvest.
Explore photos below of the Everybody Harvest Community Garden, from tilling the soil to the first harvest.
The Everybody Harvests Community Garden supports Green Ellsworth’s broader work to strengthen the local food system. Learn more about efforts to establish a Food Hub and create a community food system plan below.
Food Hub and Food Systems
Food Hub and Food Systems
Working with its partner organizations, Green Ellsworth is initiating a Downeast Food Systems Plan and a Food Hub which will be charged with implementing the Plan. The goal is to make our local food system more sustainable with better access to food produced in our region and a more viable income for food producers such as farmers, fishermen, and value-added food and beverage producers. We are encouraging input and engagement from across the food systems network in Hancock and Washington Counties. Please help by responding to our surveys.
Provide input to inform a Downeast Food Systems Plan and Food Hub
Provide input to inform a Downeast Food Systems Plan and Food Hub
The Food and Farming Action Team has a shared community vision to support the food needs of the Ellsworth area in an equitable and sustainable way; to enhance local and regional environmental conditions and the natural resource base upon which agriculture and the economy depend; to integrate natural biological cycles/controls whenever possible and encourage the best practices which result in a food system that is resilient; to sustain the economic viability of a diversity of farm operations in such a way that quality of life for everyone is improved; and to be supportive of new, health-promoting, food systems-related opportunities. *This is in alignment with the goals articulated in 2010 by the following organizations: the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, American Nurses Association, American Planning Association, and American Public Health Association.
To achieve this, we bring together farmers, gardeners, educators, parents, non-profit advocates, business owners, local, state, and federal agency representatives, municipal officials, residents, visitors, and more to the Ellsworth area under the umbrella of community, working toward shared municipal and regional goals.
*photo from a blueberry farm on Route 1A, courtesy of Julie Daigle
*Header photo NICHOLAS NAVARRE
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