- Call 207-807-9384
- email us: tilth.me@gmail.com
Mission
Tilth Arts & Agriculture is a Blue Hill Maine based non-profit corporation that manages a 10.5 acre farm as a regional hub for arts and agriculture workforce and career development. We launch programs and cultural events that practice a place based land ethic and support talent and innovators across education, entrepreneurship, arts, technology and agriculture.
Research In Soil Improvement, and Tillage Service
TILTH’s Farm Manager offers garden design, cropping design and soil improvement services. We practice a biointensive and plant positive soil based development system.
Artist In Residence Program
Tilth’s AIR program supports short term project based collaborations relative to TILTH’s mission. It’s focused on farm immersion and hospitality at TILTH’s Blue Hill headquarters and across our network.
Accelerator Program
The TILTH Accelerator is a year long business incubator program, that supports community leaders to hone their business concepts and explore critical audeices for their traction and co-financing models for their innovation relative to TILTH Arts and Agriculture’s mission. We are especially seeking to support programs and concepts that link arts programs with food systems, farmers and innovators who demonstrate leadership in cultural preservation, and cross-disciplinary problem solving in their work.
Incubator Farm, Events Fields, Conference Space Rentals
Fair Mount Farm is the 10.5 acre agroecology incubator farm at the heart of Tilth Arts & Agriculture. The land and farm buildings are set squarely between the Blue Hill Fairgrounds on Rt. 172 and Blue Hill Mountain. Fair Mount Farm is the piloting Tilth’s farm incubator program, and its dovetail with the Tilth Accelerator and the launch of the Tilth Summer Stage Initiative through 2025. Please contact us to inquire about any of the above or to request the use of our barn, multipurpose room or event fields.
Vision
Tilth is a community development organization, supported by our 501 c3 fiscal sponsor Fractured Atlas, Tilth supports the overlap of regional arts and food system innovators to accelerate entrepreneurship and educational programs that demonstrate positive impact on our regional economy, community and natural systems.
Workforce development
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Sustainable Gardening
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Local Arts Magnet
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“The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.”
Alfred Austin