Tops'l Farm

Maine. Life. Simplified. Tops’l Farm is a camp & farm retreat destination on the banks of the Medomak River in Waldoboro, ME.
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Our 83 acres of pristine pasture and hearty woodland offer an idyllic setting for your unique forest escape.

05/18/2026

A weekend with nothing to do.

Massage. Restorative yoga in our new Glass House. Nourishing meals from our kitchen. The Meadowhouse — sauna, hot tub, cold plunge. 83 acres if you want them. A cozy bed with the sound of birdsong if you don't.

June 4–7. Women only. The last one on the calendar this year.

Day passes available for the locals.

Link in bio.

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05/13/2026

Planning. And dandelions.

05/10/2026

Five Gotland wethers from came home to the farm yesterday.

Curious eyes. Tightly curled fleece. Slowly acclimating to their new home and very playful! Anna & Eli raised them well.

A lamb is mostly an exercise in attention. Water checked. Fences walked. But otherwise just time spent with them so we have an intimate understanding of their normal behaviors- and when something is off. An important skill when raising any living creature.

It’s Mother’s Day, and 2026 is the Year of the Woman Farmer in Maine — named by this spring. We’re thinking about both at once today.

About the care it takes to raise living things. About the women whose hands have shaped this state’s food for generations — known and unknown, paid and unpaid, in barns and kitchens and fields. About my own mother, who raised 6 children and hundreds (thousands?) of animals to nurture life in a way that felt right to her.

The work doesn’t always get a photograph. But this year, in Maine, it gets a name.
To the women who tend — animal, child, garden, neighbor — thank you.

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04/21/2026

This is my brother Nate.

Tops’l Farm exists in large part because of him…and a simple invitation to come pick and press some apples.

Years ago, when I was living a different life far from Maine, Nate invited my family up to his farm in Edmunds Maine for a weekend of cider pressing. Foraging wild apples in abandoned orchards. Pressing them together. Cooking over the fire. Three generations working side by side.

On the drive home I knew. I had to come back.

A search for “farms for sale” led to 365 Bremen Road in Waldoboro about 45 minutes from where we grew up. Josh and I took the keys without a business plan. Just a deep knowing that a deeper connection to the land was necessary.

That was ten years ago.

Nate died by su***de in 2024, after twenty years with schizophrenia. He spent most of his adult life as a farmer in Washington County — outside, on the land, doing the quiet work that holds rural Maine together.

The Outside/Inside Fund is a response to personal grief and a very real need here in Maine. A permanent fund built into Tops’l Farm — supporting mental health, wellness, and su***de prevention for Maine’s farming, fishing, and forestry communities. The outside work of hands and land. The inside work that makes it possible.

1% of every farm stay, every meal at our table, every jar of jam from the Farm Store — all of it going to the fund. We have created a page and are organizing ourselves around the groups here in Maine doing very important work. While we are about gathering people during the happiest of times - it's important that our work is deeper than these moments and supports the communities that make Maine so incredibly special.

Two dinners this season anchor the launch: July 2 and October 24. Tickets live now at the link in bio.

For Nate. The one who led me home.

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04/17/2026

The welcome kit that greets you when you arrive.

A property map. A poem. A list of pause suggestions — nap, read a book, put your bare feet on the earth. And all the snacks because you drove a while to get here and you’re hungry.

No itinerary. No agenda. Just 83 acres and however long you’ve given yourself.

Farm stays and Petite Pause retreats open Memorial Weekend. Link in bio. Come eat, rest and play.

04/12/2026

Five baby Gotlands are coming to Tops’l in early May.

They’re coming from Anna Ingendahl of in Wells — one of the new generation of farmers we admire most in this state. Anna raises her sheep the way good farmers do everything: with patience, real knowledge, and no shortcuts. These five are wethers — boys — and they are, objectively, among the most beautiful creatures on earth.

Gotlands are a heritage breed from the Swedish island of Gotland. Vikings carried them on ships. Their fleece is prized by hand spinners worldwide. They arrive at the farm as lambs almost entirely black and slowly turn silver-grey through their first summer. What a joy to witness this life.

This is what Season 10 looks like for us — deepening our commitment to sourcing from and supporting Maine farmers, one animal, one relationship at a time.

We need your help! These black sheep need names. Five famous black sheep in history — send us your suggestions in the comments!

We’ll announce the winners Memorial Weekend when we open our doors for farm stays.

Early bird pricing available now if you would love to visit this summer for an immersive farm stay. Link in bio.

03/27/2026

An old story goes:

A man walks into a village and sees two workers laying stone.

He asks the first: what are you building?

“A wall.”

He asks the second the same question.

“A cathedral.”

We are hiring a few final positions for Season 10 at Tops’l Farm. And we are — not metaphorically — building something this year. A new structure going up on the property. A fund launching this summer for the mental health of Maine’s farming and fishing communities. Opening our doors once again for overnight guests who want to wake up on a farm, eat a good meal, maybe learn something, maybe not.

There is a lot happening on these 83 acres.

We need cathedral builders.

Food & Beverage Director — you run the table, literally and operationally. Farm-to-table isn’t a tagline here. You will likely have your hands in the dirt at some point. We all do.

Farm Steward — the land needs tending in all weather, all moods. Animals, growing season, the quiet discipline of showing up.

Dishwasher / Kitchen Support — every meal we’re proud of ends here. We take this role seriously and we need you to as well.

Floral Designer — wildflower fields, woodland settings, a greenhouse coming into its first full season. If your eye knows what to do with what’s already growing, we want to meet you to discuss 2 open dates for support.

Competitive wages. Wellness commitments. A team that has been doing the hard work of building real culture — the kind that shows up in how we communicate, how we disagree, how we take care of each other — for the better part of 10 years.

If you’ve been paying attention to the larger conversation in hospitality about what workplace culture can and should be, know that we’ve been having that conversation here quietly, seriously, and without an audience.
We’re not the right fit for everyone. This is seasonal work and that brings with it lots of considerations. We’re the right fit for people who care how things are done — not just that they get done.

I'd love to chat.

Sarah

📍 Waldoboro, Maine · Season 10
DM us or email [email protected]

03/20/2026

Anna from shared that three of our baby lambs were born this week. And it still shocks me that I was once a small girl standing in the middle of a family that never stopped moving — someone always coming in from the field, someone heading out, something always needing doing — hands on hips, stating to no one in particular: “I hate living on a farm in Maine. This is YOUR dream. Not mine.”

Nobody even looked up.

What I meant was: the mud. The chores that started before I was awake. The way we couldn’t just go anywhere because the animals didn’t care about our plans. The hard work of it all. What I didn’t know yet was there was so much there that I did love: the slam of the screen door. The starched linen curtains lifting in the summer breeze. The pie cooling on the counter that nobody announced because it was just Tuesday.

I grew up on a farm in Maine and spent twenty years building a life that looked nothing like it. Nine seasons ago I took the keys to 83 acres here in Waldoboro. I have been building, slowly, the farm of my actual dreams — with all the quiet spaces and beauty and none of the trapped feeling. There is fresh pie. There are 18 screen doors to let the Maine summer air in.

The animals we have here are part of why it works. They just live. No performance, no optimization, no interest in our agendas. Guests feel that the moment they arrive and can’t quite name it on the way home. I’ve stopped trying to explain it. It's a feeling that is felt deep somewhere and allows the exhales to be a bit longer.

There is nothing else quite like this in Maine. Season 10 opens Memorial Weekend.

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03/18/2026

This watercolor was painted in 1938.

The man, M.S. Smith - leaning against his boat, pipe lit, face tilted up — he’s catching the first real warmth after a Maine winter. The sign across the water reads “Farms for Sale.” That’s this farm. That’s Tops’l.

The painting belonged to the Smith family, who stewarded this land for 80 years before us. When they handed us the keys, they handed us this too.

We’ve thought about M.S. a lot over the past decade. His spring fever. The way he’s not doing anything — just being in it. Pipe smoke, water, the particular relief of a season turning.
Ten years later, that’s still what we’re building here. Not a destination. A place where you remember how to stop.

Today we launch Farm Stays. Our return to opening the farm for two-night stays for all — meals at our long table, morning yoga in our new Glass House, sauna under the pines, 83 acres to wander at whatever pace you choose.

Early bird pricing through May 1. Opens Memorial Weekend. More details to come as we highlight all the exciting plans for this season. Link in bio for all the details.

We can't wait to welcome you.

Sarah

03/13/2026

I’ve been carrying this dream for a while: get a real cross-section of Maine farmers around our table. Not for a panel. Not for content. Just — come, sit down, let us feed you, and tell us what you need.

On a rainy night this week, it happened. Eleven farmers. All corners of the state. Every stage of the farming life.

They all asked what they could bring. The answer was nothing.

We shared what’s coming this summer — new products that carry their fruits and vegetables, and a new fund we’re starting to support mental health in Maine’s farming, fishing, and forestry communities (more on that soon). But mostly we passed the food and listened. The whole point was to listen.

To say this meal fed me more than it fed them would be honest, and entirely true.

Season 10. A table where you reconnect with yourself, the people you love, and something rooted and real.

A huge thank you to all who came and to my dear friend Brooke, who pulled together a delicious meal using our farm-raised lamb, local oysters, root vegetables, bread — and my first ever attempt at Concord grape vinegar!

Address

365 Bremen Road
Waldoboro, ME
04572

Telephone

(207) 832-1602

Website

http://www.topslfarm.com/

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