O'Brien Farm Foundation

We’re expanding our collection! Our first batch of new books arrived! We’re looking for books on basket making, fibre arts, homesteading, farm business, growing vegetables and cut flower farming, heritage crafts, and farming memoirs. If you feel like culling your own collection, please let us know! If you have books you’d like to recommend to us, please get in touch! If you’d like to come in and wander through the collection …please let us know! We’re open to all of it and dream of having an amazing resource library.

We are so excited to announce the first-ever PicklePalooza! It’s a celebration of pickles, preserving, and putting up the harvest! Come to O’Brien Farm on September 12th from 11 AM to 4 PM for food, old-fashioned carnival games, beer and cider, live music on the lawn, and pickles galore!

Come join us in celebrating the mighty pickle!

O'Brien Farm Foundation A non-profit organization responsible for the preservation and growth of the historic O'Brien Farm

Join us tomorrow to learn about how farms and birds are allies!

Register here: https://forms.gle/sExzcsaTLrxaUAAK9

There are so many myths about birds on farms! Come sip some beer and learn about our feathered friends, make scarecrows (beautiful perches for birds), and see the farm's resident owl.

*Owl siting not guaranteed!

What an adorable outing Cloudberry Outdoor Play and Education!

There are so many myths about birds on farms! Come sip some beer and learn about our feathered friends, make scarecrows (beautiful perches for birds), and see the farm's resident owl.

*Owl siting not guaranteed!

We're excited to announce PicklePalooza, a brand new festival celebrating pickling, preserving, gardening, and local food that will take place at O'Brien Farm on September 12th, 2026.

Our official festival poster and full schedule will be released soon, but in the meantime, we're excited to share our Call for Submissions for our art exhibition and silent auction Relish the Day! If you're an artist inspired by food, farming, gardens, preservation, smiley anthropomorphic pickles, or the harvest season in general we'd love to hear from you!

Stay tuned for more details! And yes, we are ordering very cool pickle-themed merch!

Summer on the farm is in full swing!
Read all about it in our newsletter:

Summer on the Farm After a busy spring on the farm, we've settled into an even busier summer. Every weekend brings weddings and baby showers and other celebrations to the property. Meanwhile, our farmers and gardeners are in full swing and have already begun harvesting beautiful vegetables and cut flowers, food hub pi...

So excited for this!

Throughout the summer we are selling tickets on two beautiful Aran sweaters (one adult and one child) valued at $350! ✨

Ticket purchases will help support our environmental education, arts and culture and New Found Farmers programming here at the farm. 🌱👨🏼‍🌾

Tickets are $2 each or 3 for $5 and can be purchased at the farm during open hours (Tuesday-Friday 10-4) or during any special events happening throughout the summer! 🌞

The draw will take place at the farm on September 7th, 2026.

We’re pleased to introduce Sweetums! We've recently welcomed six new hens to the farm and we need help naming the rest of the ladies! Please share your best, funniest, or most farm-worthy suggestions below. We'll pick our favorites and introduce the winners next week.

p.s. one of ladies is a bit camera shy, but the rest of the girls are in the photo 🐔