HOLD AN EVENT

Rent Space at The Morris Farm

The Morris Farm can comfortably seat up to 68 people in our bright and cheery Learning Center, and can accommodate 75 theater style, with a podium in the front.

During the warmer months we can accommodate larger gatherings, taking advantage of the rustic charm of our large timber frame barn and the pastoral vistas available from our back deck and yard. 

​We have rented our facility for many different kinds of activities, including weddings, birthday parties, annual meetings, hour-long and day-long meetings, classes, workshops, films, and musical presentations - in both the Learning Center and barn. It is also possible to rent the grounds and set up tents for an outside event.

We provide a limited number of chairs and tables with the rentals and work with you to make the best use of our spaces.

​For information, please email info@morrisfarm.org or call 207-882-4080. We will be happy to discuss renting Morris Farm spaces, in the Learning Center and/or barn or on the grounds, for your meeting, party or other special event.

Community groups often use our facility. Currently, the Dam Jam Fiddlers and the Sheepscot Spinners meet in our Learning Center.

BECOME A MEMBER

As a Morris Farm Member

You support a Forever Farm

  • We use our 50 acres to grow crops, raise animals and provide hands-on education

  • We preserve historic farmland

  • We demonstrate solar technology through an independent solar farm and generation of our own electricity from solar panels on the barn roof

  • We are open to the public, so come take a look around!

You support programs that benefit our community

  • Educational programs and workshops for children and adults 

  • Vacation and summer farm camps

  • Food security initiatives to make nutritious, local food available to all

  • Local farmers, food processors, and crafters who market their products through the Morris Farm Store and use our commercial kitchen

  • Your Member Benefits:

    • Advance notice of programs and events

    • Member only store specials 

    • Early registration on children's camps and programs

    • Reminders about community events and celebrations throughout the year

    • Morris Farm window decal

    • Morris Farm milk bottle

    • Knowledge you are an important part in the preservation of one of Wiscasset’s last, historic farms

    Be a part of the Morris Farm Trust

    For PayPal payment of your membership dues, please:

    1. Fill out the form with your information.  

    2. Select the button below to complete your Paypal purchase.

    ​You may also mail your check, separately, to: 

    The Morris Farm Trust

    156 Gardiner Rd

    Wiscasset, ME 04578

Volunteer Your Time

  • The Morris Farm Store: Volunteers are needed to staff regularly scheduled hours in the Farm Store.

  • Publicity for the Morris Farm: Helping to write press releases and use social media to share what we do with our community.

  • Food security: Roles range from help raising public awareness & publicity about the issue of hunger in our community, to helping care for our 24/7 Food Pantry, to harvesting fresh vegetables from our fields

  • Event staff: Some examples include the annual plant sale, Tour de Farms, Community Thanksgiving Potluck, Open Mic Nights, Community Contra Dances. Help with set-up & clean- up, press releases, hanging posters around town, making signs, taking photographs, working the grill, cooking meals, washing dishes, etc etc etc.

  • Volunteer coordinator: Work in collaboration with the Board of Directors to contact volunteers, assign tasks and manage scheduling. Finding one exceedingly gracious person who would be willing to take the lead here would bolster the operations of the farm greatly.

  • Trail maintenance: At this time, fixing up our trails is a high priority need!

  • Mowing: This is one that we’d greatly appreciate help with! While we may not need your help with this every week, if we could get a few committed folks who could do this consistently, the mowing should be very manageable.

  • Website updates

  • Teaching a class: Lead a session on a farm- or natural-history- based theme. Topics might include chickens 101, canning, companion planting, organic pest control, wild edibles/medicinal plant hike, soap-making, mushroom log cultivation, seed saving techniques… or anything you might conjure up! Nature hikes, crafts, cooking classes, and more are always welcomed!

  • Carpentry & facilities:  Help us build the farm (and keep it from falling to pieces!) Some tasks that need doing are  building compost bins, helping to build & install a spring-fed reservoir for livestock in the back field, ditch work, shoring up the fence in the front of the building, snow shoveling, painting projects galore, light carpentry in various places.