We have fresh MOFGA Certified Organic produce as well as farmstead goat milk products, soaps, and face creams, made with organic ingredients. You can order our soaps, creams, and cajeta right here from our website, or pick them up at our farm stand, along with our freshly picked organic produce, goat milk cheeses, gelatos, and yogurt.
We have fresh MOFGA Certified Organic produce as well as farmstead goat milk products, soaps, and face creams, made with organic ingredients. You can order our soaps, creams, and cajeta right here from our website, or pick them up at our farm stand, along with our freshly picked organic produce, goat milk cheeses, gelatos, and yogurt.
YELLOW BIRCH FARM
About Us
Welcome to Yellow Birch Farm of Deer Isle, Maine! We are Eric Ziner and Missy (Melissa) Greene. We moved to Deer Isle in 1991. At this time, we were enjoying a very busy time as successful artists: Eric is an artist blacksmith and Missy is a ceramic artist. We had makeshift studios, a gallery in our barn, and lived right on the main road.
Over the next 10 years, we put down roots, immersing ourselves in the community and starting a family. Eventually we decided we needed room to grow, so we bought an old farm up island on 52 acres and expanded our gardening, built proper studios, and moved the gallery into the barn. We called our farm "Yellow Birch Farm" because the property features a special tree: the largest Yellow Birch in the country!
As the economy shifted, we found our interests in organic food and sharing a more self-reliant lifestyle with our kids increasing. Our agricultural endeavors began taking on a larger part of our lives. We now have about one acre under intensive, MOFGA Certified Organic vegetable production, a herd of Alpine goats, several high tunnels, and a licensed dairy kitchen.