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Troy Dickens

Troy Dickens

Farmer and co-owner of Tilth & Timber, a diversified organic herb and vegetable farm in Castine, Maine, running it with his wife Cindy and their two young children.

Sep 18, 2026

2:05
now.
2:06
And we have an additional high tunnel now that we didn't have yet back when we talked to you.
2:11
I think we were doing about a half acre with one farmer's friend caterpillar tunnel when we first talked.
2:18
And now we have... closer to three quarters of an acre and the farmer's front tunnel and a 30 by 96 high tunnel.
2:27
And then we're also putting up probably one or two more high tunnels that we recently purchased, used ones to put up.
2:34
In vegetables, we did right around 100,000 in sales

5 MINS LATER

8:02
And what Troy did next might be the smartest move he's made in his farming career.
8:08
I remember when we last talked, we had started the farm business a couple years in, thinking like, oh, it's hard work now, money's tight now, but I imagine in five years things will be better.
28:27
How do you continue? I get the drive of, hey, we love this, we're stubborn, but in reality, what would you say to somebody who came up to you and been like, guys, what are you doing? This is crazy.
28:44
So I guess what I'll say is we, we felt like this was going to be a major, I think last season, last year, we told ourselves, oh, this is a make or break season.
28:58
We can't really like have good numbers at the end of the season.
29:03
It's just not working.
29:05
And we joined the MOF good journey person program.
29:11
MOPCA's Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association.
29:14
They do all the certifying of organic in Maine, but they also have a lot of great programs for farmers.
32:51
What resonated with you and you're like, whoa, okay, this is really insightful and made me maybe think about things differently, the light bulb.

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