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Cindy Dickens

Cindy Dickens

Co-owner, with husband Troy, of Tilth & Timber, a small diversified biodynamic farm in Castine, Maine; former banker and public elementary school teacher.

Sep 18, 2026

0:42
It's been seven years, and everything has changed.
0:48
This is it for the most part.
0:50
We don't pay ourselves anything right now.
0:53
So it's really just whatever money the farm is making is going back into the farm to try to sustain this new business, which I think is somewhat common as a startup farm.
1:17
Of course, that was the whole goal was to do that to allow us to be farmers.
1:22
a good weekend we're bringing in about a thousand i think a thousand dollars a week for our first year being the newbies at the market it's at the low end of where we wanted to be but it's also nothing to take lightly because i think that kind of shows that we are already starting to establish a name for ourselves

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