About us
Feastland Farm is a small vegetable farm beginning its first season in 2025 on unceded Wabanaki land in Scarborough, Maine. We’re fortunate to have been given the opportunity to sublease our 3 acre plot from Broadturn Farm, continuing the long history of stewarding this land for agricultural use.
With the help of an amazing network of friends, family and mentors, Feastland Farm was started by “farmer” Addison Wagner and “printmaker” Anastasia Inciardi. Neither of us grew up around farming, but have a mutual reverence for great food and the people that feed us.
Addison decided she wanted to become one of those people after dabbling in farm work as an undergraduate, finding hope and inspiration in the rare chance to have a collaborative working relationship with the natural world, rather than an exploitative one. Meanwhile, Ana was discovering her passion for printmaking and nurturing a budding entrepreneurial spirit. She found her niche in 2020 when she started creating and selling her prints of food.
We set our sights on Maine in 2019 after negotiating Addison’s desire to commit to farming full-time with Ana’s goal of growing her own printmaking business, and eventually made the move to Portland in June of 2020. With the incredible community around both organic farming and printmaking, Maine has checked all of our boxes and quickly become a forever home for us.
Addison would be remiss not to mention her time working at Whatley Farm in Topsham, Maine, where she spent an invaluable five years learning and building skills alongside a group of multi-talented and generous farmers.
We got married last September at Broadturn Farm, right across the street from our leased land. It’s been a treat to weave together our individual interests and work collaboratively as we continue to get the farm setup and prepare for the CSA. We’re excited to share this next chapter with you!
Our farming practices
“What I stand for is what I stand on.”
― Wendell Berry
Our farming practices are rooted in creativity, mutual-care and reciprocity between ourselves and the land where we grow our food. We’re focused on keeping our operation small and intensive, and plan to grow our cash crops on just ½ of an acre of no-till, permanent beds in 2025, managing our remaining acreage with cover crops.
To a beginning farmer, these “best practices” for centering soil health can often feel like a moving target. We’re committed to evolving our growing systems as we gain experience on our leased land and learn from other farmers, scientists and service providers who are dedicated to this work of regenerative farming.
And while we are not yet certified, our guarantee is that we will always follow organic practices strictly. Nurturing an ecosystem of living soil, pollinators, birds and other beneficial organisms is the best way to grow nutrient-dense food, as well as build the farm’s resilience against extreme weather and pests.
After months of throwing around possible names for the farm, Ana had the idea to call it “Feastland” after noticing a striking hand-painted sign hanging in one of Broadturn’s barns. The sign was created by Portland-based artist Will Sears in connection to a 2013 event co-hosted by Broadturn Farm and Space Gallery.
Our name
While we were sadly not in attendance at this original Feastland party, it was an on-farm celebration of art and food that felt like a worthy namesake for our artsy farm. We were lucky to eat bratwursts and enjoy amazing art at the Feastland revival party in 2024, and hope for more iterations of Feastland in future years!
