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Kendall
Farm - Five-Generations of Downeast Maine summers
Kendall Farm is located on Boyden
Lake in “Downeast” Maine, which is actually
on the north easternmost coast. It was purchased in 1852
by my great-great- grandfather, Robert Golding, and for
three generations my family worked the land. |
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| In the early 1930s as more families came to
summer in Downeast Maine, my grandfather and my father hand
sawed ice from the frozen lakes in winter, packed the blocks
in hay and hauled it by horse drawn sleds to ice houses at
the cottages along Boyden Lake. By June, it would still be
solid and ready for summer residents to use for refrigeration.
Watercress and Wildflower cottages were built in the early
1930’s.
Today, the Kendalls are still farming, albeit on a smaller
scale. Kendall Farm offers an abundance |
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of watercress growing in a nearby
natural spring, wild blueberry patches, a raspberry patch
and large vegetable and flower gardens where guests can harvest
food and flowers for your cottage table.
Your hosts
are Georgiana Kendall and her bearded collie, Stella. |
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