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
Nadine Biss is a native Eastporter who, after many years of global wandering, is back in Washington county and excited to be a part of the local food ecosystem at Smithereen Farm. She grew up very musically-involved at the Eastport Arts Center and ended up working on community projects and fundraising for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In 2017, she flew across the world for a year of exploration in Australia, which turned into five years between Oz and New Zealand. While there, she developed interests in cookery, permaculture and intentional communities—which she put to use in Christchurch to co-create a warehouse community based on principles of inclusion, resourcefulness and a good bit of scavenging. In 2022, she returned to Eastport and, in-between travels in Europe and North Africa, she worked remotely managing the Maine Civic Halls Initiative, a project of Greenhorns, Maine Preservation and the Friends of Liberty Hall. This research on Washington and Hancock counties’ local community infrastructure was published in July 2023 and will be extended to include a statewide map and survey. This year, she has plans to cook up a storm at Smithereen’s own commercial kitchen, the Minke, play fiddle music, sew and quilt and go for lots of swims at Nash Lake with family, both human and canine.
Molly Adams
Molly Adams is the Southern Maine Liason for Smithereen Farm. 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.
Charlotte Watson
Charlotte Watson has made her way Downeast by way of the Mississippi Delta. What was initiated by a desire to beat the heat farming the humid South has resulted in a continued interest in what is possible at Smithereen Farm.
Charlotte’s earliest experiences of agriculture were annual spring visits to a family favorite farm stand and U-Pick where she and her sisters harvested strawberries and snapdragons. After spending the last five years farming flowers, Charlotte comes to Smithereen Farm with a big heart for beauty and an infectious ethic of care.