Pentecost by Hyatt Moore

The Lion's Farm, LLC

The Last Supper with Twelve Tribes by Hyatt Moore

Beekeeping

A principal goal for our beekeeping operation is to raise healthy, productive and hardy bees that overwinter successfully. To that end, we have increased the number of units in our yard, added queens from Saskatraz and Carniolan strains to optimize these traits and to raise our own locally-mated queens. Thriving bees produce the honey our local supporters want and will enable us to sell nucleus colonies in the coming years starting in 2024. As before, we expect good summer and fall harvests for sale at our farm stand (Lord willing).   

We entitled this page of our website as, “God at Work.” In it, we share with you from time to time important things that are going on around the farm and with our operation. It’s fun for us to keep a record and to testify to the good things God is doing through us. But, we also want to relay a deeper and more profound work of God, which we have passed on to you for your good and His glory.

Blessings,
Glenn & Cheryl

     “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.” (John 3:16-21)

     “So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: ‘Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious.  For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, “To the unknown god.” What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, for “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’ Being then God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man. The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.” (Acts 17:22-31)

     “Then they said to him, ‘What must we do, to be doing the works of God?’ Jesus answered them, ‘This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.’” (John 6:28-29)

     “Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” (2 Cor 5:20-21)

Agricultural Restoration Project

     -> Upick! It's time to pass the baton to the expert pickers: You! Since you'll be doing the work, you'll also pay less for the fresh strawberries and apples of your preference. We'll continue to have strawberry quarts and apple half-peck totes available for you when you'd prefer to grab-n-go. Look for announcements on pick-days on the farm's Facebook page. 

     -> Farm tours! Oh, the fun of a field trip... We'll have open hive days during late spring and garden & orchard tours with cider-making activities in the fall.  Freshly pressed cider is hard to beat!

     -> Store! Movin' it indoors! Mainly, anyway. We'll still have outdoor table-n-tent set-ups, but it's high time for something more permanent.

     -> Nursery! In line with tree fruit production, we have established a brand new nursery to sustain our own small orchards and in coming years to make local nursery stock available at an affordable price.

God's heart for People in Need

It has been a real joy to work with our State's food bank, Good Shepherd, through its Mainers-Feeding-Mainers program. Although we have reduced the number of annual produce types, we will always have a heart to share what the Lord has provided with those in need in our community.