Faces of the Farm
Amy Sprague and Tom Harms have
called Wolf Pine Farm home since the fall of 2000. Amy started up the
farm business in 2000 and managed the farm full time until the end of
the 2003 season. They had their first child, Delia, in January 2004 and their second, Magnolia, in November 2005. With the start of their
family Amy became a full time mom/behind-the-scenes farmer and they
began to offer farm management positions in order to accomplish the
goal of keeping the farm running while also starting a family. Now
that Delia and Maggie are getting older, Amy is now back to managing
the farm, supervising staff, managing shareholder marketing and
communications, starting fruit crops, and working with the veggie
crew. The farm has continued to grow along with Tom and Amy's family,
and so they continue to offer farm management positions. Laura Neale is the CSA Manager in charge of all that
it takes to grow food for our shares, and she manages apprentices and
other veggie-growing staff. Sarah Bostick is the
New Projects Manager and is helping us kick off several of our farm
diversification projects such as expansion of our Farm Store, raising
flowers & chickens, and starting a Winter CSA. Sarah manages staff
involved in these projects. As of this April we've also been joined by
our apprentices for this season, Katie Kondrat and Sarah Geis (We'll get a new picture of all of us soon).
Farm Owners
 Amy is a native Mainer, having grown up in
Belgrade Lakes. After graduating from Boston University in 1995 with
a degree in Environmental Policy and Analysis, she settled in Boston
with Tom, where she lived for the next 5 years working as an
environmental educator and farm apprentice for the Massachusets
Audubon Society.
Amy enjoys time with friends talking and eating, visiting other farms, cooking, and spending time swimming,
floating, skating, or skiing on the river.
 Tom is from the Catskill Mountain region of upstate New York. Tom
has spent time as a high school math teacher, actuary and, most
recently, a computer programmer running his own computer programming business.
Aside from his computer and farming tasks, Tom enjoys spending time
with Delia and Maggie & Amy, a good game of wiffle ball, biking, cooking, and chess.
 Delia is 4 years old this season. One of her favorite dishes is kale
pizza, she asks for it when we go out for pizza too. Delia likes to pick flowers, tomatoes, and sugar snap peas.
She is looking forward to planting and weeding, and
especially enjoys her visits with CSA kids at the farm.
 Maggie
is 2 1/2 years old this season and ready for adventure. Last season she most loved picking unripe cherry
tomatoes in our special patch just for Delia and Maggie. You would hear her say, "maytos... no pick the
green ones..." over and over as
she picked. Maggie loves to play with seeds that she finds in last year's flowers, to pick tiny berries
that are for the birds, and to get wet however possible and then take her clothes off.
CSA Manager
Laura Neale grew up in southern New York, started farming in Maine and
came of age in Northern California. She returns to Maine for the 2008
growing season and is thrilled to be working with the Wolf Pine Farm
community. She is committed to consciously growing beautiful, tasty
and healthy food while nurturing the land and respecting nature.
Laura kicked of her farming career apprenticing here in Maine and 12
seasons later she has grown food in New York and Connecticut, worked
as a garden educator in Oakland, California public schools,
volunteered on an organic aloe farm in India, attended the
Apprenticeship for Ecological Horticulture at UC Santa Cruz and
co-operatively initiated and ran her own small farm in Sonoma County,
California. Laura loves veggies, loves the soil and loves the
sunshine. Laura also dabbles in cooking, hiking, beach combing and
reggae music appreciation.
New Projects Manager
 Sarah Bostick is Wolf Pine Farm's New
Projects Manager. She has been rural farming and urban gardening in
southern Maine since 2003. Originally from the southeastern states,
she came to Maine 10 years ago for college and has finally decided
that Maine really is home. When she isn't farming she enjoys
landscaping her yard with flowers and veggies, reading, going for long
tromps through the woods with her dog, cooking, traveling in other
parts of the world, finding warmish rivers to swim in, learning more
about farming, and spending time with friends. If you visit the farm,
you will also meet Sarah's dog Luna. She is a three year old mutt from
the animal shelter and she enjoys hunting woodchucks, chewing on
bones, running very fast, cheese, bread, cookies, and sausage.
This year Sarah will be working on a number of projects in conjunction
with Amy: Expanding the farm store, coordinating a winter CSA, growing
flowers, raising laying hens, and a few other odds and ends that are
still in the works.
Apprentices
 Sarah Geis is originally from Pittsburgh, PA and came to farming
from a background in Psychology, Mediation, and Yoga Instruction. She is farming this season
as a way to become more connected with food, and to take an active role in providing sustainable
local produce that is grown with love! In her free time she enjoys reading, hiking with her dog
Portia (who's staying in Pittsburgh) and attempting to surf. She's very much looking forward
to swimming in the river after hot days in the field and eating lots of fresh yummy food!
 Katie Kondrat has been a working shareholder at Wolf Pine Farm
for the last three seasons and has finally decided to commit full-time. She is
taking a sabbatical from her job as a youth educator at a domestic
violence project to learn all there is about growing beautiful,
delicious, organic food. Katie also supports local food by being an
active member of the Steering Committee for the Portland Food
Cooperative (she is also very fond of cooking and eating local food).
She is looking forward to a summer of hard work, river swimming, bike
rides and hammock naps.
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