Farm Team
We are dedicated to the land, the sea, and our local community. We’re invested in a vibrant future for agriculture in Washington County and beyond.
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Kyle Miller
I grew up on Maryland’s Eastern Shore where I spent my childhood years fishing, crabbing, and exploring the Chesapeake and its many tributaries. I spent six years as a math and social studies teacher in Washington D.C., where I started a gardening club and my interest for growing food began. I decided to step away from the world of education and pursue a life in farming. I moved to Hawaii where I worked on a farm on the island of Kauai and was able to deepen my understanding of permaculture and organic farming. Prior to arriving at Smithereen, I lived in Vermont and spent time as a carpenter while also working with a local commercial compost maker. I am passionate about high quality, sustainably-grown food and its ability to bring a community together and am excited about helping to play a part in it while at Smithereen!
Nadine Biss
Molly Adams
Molly Adams is the Southern Maine Liason for Smithereen Farm, and helps with PR and marketing for the Eat Downeast campaign. As a professional conversationalist who can lift fifty pounds, Molly loves to provide logistics, labor, and promotional efforts for Smithereen Farm in the commercial center of the state. She lives in Portland with her family.
Kacie Loparto
Kacie Loparto is Smithereen Farm’s Seaweed Harvest Capitan. Kacie formerly worked as a seaweed harvester for several well-established and budding seaweed businesses between 2007 and 2015. She became well versed in the work and rhythm of the wild seaweed harvest as apprentice to Larch Hanson of Maine Seaweed Company. Extending her experience to the waters of the West Coast, Kacie worked with Pacific Wildcraft Seaweed.
She assumed leadership roles helping the owners of these businesses train new workers in nearly every aspect of the seasonal and cyclical work.
Today Kacie enjoys traveling three hours up coast to Pembroke to lead workshops in foraging the seven primary edible varieties of seaweed found on the Maine Coast. Although Kacie no longer sells seaweed as she once did under the guise of She Sells Seaweed, there is nothing she enjoys more than walking along Maine’s Piney coast smelling the salt air with an eye always out for a few morsels of seaweed.
Garrett Richards
Garrett is an aspiring farmer born and raised in Eastern Pennsylvania and transplanted into Maine three years ago. Garrett grew up down the road from his grandparents farm and has dreamed of starting his own farm some day.
Along with Garrett comes a work history in a variety of fields including landscaping / caretaking, fencing, construction / handyman work, and some time as a line cook as well. For the majority of the past two years Garrett worked at a vegetable farm in Winterport, Maine however, this past summer Garrett worked for the University of Maine’s Agroecology Lab taking soil samples and learning tribal perspectives on sustenance farming and gathering in rural Alaska.
This past December, Garrett graduated from the University of Maine’s Sustainable Agriculture program and is very excited to apply his skills to help Smithereen Farm and family succeed!
Caitlin Stolecki
Caitlin Stolecki grew up just north of Boston helping her mom in her various gardens. She enjoys spending time outdoors getting her hands dirty. After graduating with a Strategy and Operations degree from Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, Caitlin decided to flee New England to Hawai’i. It was on the island of Kauai that she rediscovered her love for playing in the dirt while WWOOFing on a small scale organic farm. After living on Kauai for a year she moved back home and got a job with the non-profit Boston Area Gleaners. She has a passion for food access and justice, ever more so on learning about contemporary food systems. What better place to apply these talents than at Smithereen Farm to pursue farming, grocery, education and local food promotion.
Emily Rose Theobald
Emily Rose Theobald is a Jill Of All Trades, florist, vintage dealer, film photographer, seamstress, mother, currently based in Marion Township. A native Long Islander, she lived in the city and the Hudson Valley working in numerous occupations before making her way Downeast, where she lives with her husband and two small children, John Bug and Daisy Oona. She spends winters with her family living in a van out West.